danser

From Middle French danser, from Old French dancer, dancier (“to dance”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch (oneself), gesture”), a variant of *dinsan. Displaced Old French baller, from Latin ballare (“to dance”). Cognate with Old High German dansōn (“to draw, pull”), Old Dutch þinsan (“to move, tear”), Old High German dinsan (“to draw out”), Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌽 (þinsan, “to drag, draw, pull”), Old English þennan, þenian (“to stretch, stretch out, spread out, extend”). Related to thin

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.se/
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VerbEdit

danser

(transitive, intransitive) to dance

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of danser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive
present participle		dansant /dɑ̃.sɑ̃/
past participle		dansé /dɑ̃.se/
simple		danser
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund¹
simple		dansant /dɑ̃.sɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	danse /dɑ̃s/	danses /dɑ̃s/	danse /dɑ̃s/	dansons /dɑ̃.sɔ̃/	dansez /dɑ̃.se/	dansent /dɑ̃s/
	imperfect	dansais /dɑ̃.sɛ/	dansais /dɑ̃.sɛ/	dansait /dɑ̃.sɛ/	dansions /dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	dansiez /dɑ̃.sje/	dansaient /dɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic²	dansai /dɑ̃.se/	dansas /dɑ̃.sa/	dansa /dɑ̃.sa/	dansâmes /dɑ̃.sam/	dansâtes /dɑ̃.sat/	dansèrent /dɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	danserai /dɑ̃.sʁe/	danseras /dɑ̃.sʁa/	dansera /dɑ̃.sʁa/	danserons /dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	danserez /dɑ̃.sʁe/	danseront /dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	danserais /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/	danserais /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/	danserait /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/	danserions /dɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	danseriez /dɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	danseraient /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	danse /dɑ̃s/	danses /dɑ̃s/	danse /dɑ̃s/	dansions /dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	dansiez /dɑ̃.sje/	dansent /dɑ̃s/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	dansasse /dɑ̃.sas/	dansasses /dɑ̃.sas/	dansât /dɑ̃.sa/	dansassions /dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	dansassiez /dɑ̃.sa.sje/	dansassent /dɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	danse /dɑ̃s/	—	dansons /dɑ̃.sɔ̃/	dansez /dɑ̃.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ Only usable with preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related termsEdit

danse
danseur, danseuse

DescendantsEdit

Haitian Creole: dans
→ Romanian: dansa

AnagramsEdit

redans

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French dancer, dancier (“to dance”), from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch (oneself), gesture”), from Proto-Germanic *þansōną, from *þinsaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch, pull”).