dar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dar"

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Translingual

Symbol

dar

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Dargwa.

English

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

dar (plural dars)

(UK, dialect) A fish found in the Severn River; a dart or dace.
- 1829, A Concise History and Description of the City and Cathedral of Worcester‎^[2], page 100:
  Besides these peculiarities, our river abounds with the usual fresh water fish, such as the roach, dar, flounders, carp, chub, trout, &c.

Etymology 2

Adverb

dar (not comparable)

African-American Vernacular form of there

Noun

dar (uncountable)

African-American Vernacular form of there

Pronoun

dar

African-American Vernacular form of there

References

“dar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

'ard, -ard, ADR, ARD, Ard, DRA, Dra, RAD, RDA, ard, rad, rad.

Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to Spanish dar, from Latin dare.

Verb

dar

give

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare.

Verb

dar

to give

Conjugation

Dar's conjugation is mostly identical to the regular first conjugation, but the preterite is similar to the third conjugation. The present subjunctive treats the verb's base infinitive as "deer."

Conjugation of dar

person		first singular yo	second singular tu	third singular él/elli	first plural nosotros/nós	second plural vosotros/vós	third plural ellos
infinitive		dar
gerundive		dando
participle		m dao, f [Term?], n [Term?], m pl [Term?], f pl [Term?]
indicative	present	do doi	das	da	damos	dais	dán
	imperfect	daba	dabes	daba	dábamos dábemos	dabais dabeis	daben
	preterite	dí	disti diesti	dio	dimos diemos	distis diestis	dieron
	pluperfect	diera diere	dieras dieres	diera diere	diéramos diéremos	dierais diereis	dieran dieren
	future	daré	darás	dará	daremos	daréis	darán
	conditional	daría	daríes	daría	daríamos daríemos	daríais daríeis	daríen
subjunctive	present	dea	deas	dea	deamos	deáis	dean
subjunctive	imperfect	diera diere	dieras dieres	diera diere	diéramos diéremos	dierais diereis	dieran dieren
imperative			da			dai

Reference: http://www.academiadelallingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gramatica_Llingua.pdf

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [dɑr]
Audio (Baku): (file)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *tār (“narrow”).

Adjective

dar (comparative daha dar, superlative ən dar)

narrow
Synonym: enli

dar yol ― a narrow road

dar dəhliz ― a narrow passage, corridor
tight, too small

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “narrow”): geniş, enli
(antonym(s) of “tight”): gen

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic دَار (dār).

Noun

dar (definite accusative darı, sound plural darlar, broken plural diyar)

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare. Replaced by donar and became a defective verb.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈda]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdaɾ]
Audio: (file)

Verb

dar

(obsolete) to give
Synonym: donar

Usage notes

While not used productively in any present variety, some verb forms of dar survive in fixed expressions:
dat i beneït (literally “given and blessed”)
dat i rebatut
Déu n'hi do (literally “may God give some”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dar (first conjugation, irregular)

person		singular			plural
infinitive			dar
gerund			dant
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		dat		dada
		plural		dats		dades
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	do¹	das¹	da¹	dem	deu	dan¹
	imperfect	dava	daves	dava	dàvem	dàveu	daven
	future	daré	daràs	darà	darem	dareu	daran
	preterite	di	dares	da	dàrem	dàreu	daren
	conditional	daria	daries	daria	daríem	daríeu	darien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	de¹	des¹	de¹	dem	deu	den¹
	imperfect	des	dessis	des	déssim	déssiu	dessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	da¹	de¹	dem	deu	den¹
	negative (no)	—	no des¹	no de¹	no dem	no deu	no den¹

¹Obsolete.

Some forms attested in Old Catalan:

1st person singular present indicative: do
3rd person singular present indicative: do
2nd person plural present indicative: dau
1st person singular present subjunctive: do

Cimbrian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German der, from Old High German der, ther. Cognate with German der, Dutch die, English the, Swedish den. Doublet of dèar (demonstrative pronoun).

Article

dar

(Luserna, Sette Comuni) the; definite article for two declensions:
1. nominative singular masculine
  Dar mann is stérchor dan 's baip. ― The man is stronger than the woman.
  
  Dar tòibel hat borlóart in sbantz. ― The devil lost his tail.
2. dative singular feminine
  Bar soin vo dar Tezza. ― We're from Tezza (literally, “We're from the Tezza.”)

Usage notes

Note: The genitive case has been largely lost in Cimbrian, however dar can function in the genitive (for all numbers and genders) before possessive pronouns, e.g. khua dar maindarn (“cow of mine”).

Declension

Cimbrian definite articles
	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	dar	de / di	's / z	de / di
accusative	in	de / di	's / z	de / di
dative	me	dar	me	in

Derived terms

vomme
von (contraction)
vóndar

References

“dar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cornish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *dar, from Proto-Celtic *daru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Pronunciation

(Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [daːr]
(Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [dæːr]

Noun

dar m (plural deri)

oak

Synonyms

derowen/derwen

Mutation

Mutation of *dar*
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
dar	dhar	unchanged	tar	tar	tar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech dar, from Proto-Slavic *darъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdar]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ar

Noun

dar m inan

gift, present, donation
věnovat dar ― to give a donation

poskytovat dary ― to give gifts

Declension

Declension of dar (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	dar	dary
genitive	daru	darů
dative	daru	darům
accusative	dar	dary
vocative	dare	dary
locative	daru	darech
instrumental	darem	dary

Related terms

Dutch

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch darne, by metathesis from dorne, from Old Dutch *drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēnuz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɑr/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: dar
Rhymes: -ɑr

Noun

dar m (plural darren, diminutive darretje n)

drone (non-working male bee, ant or wasp)

Anagrams

rad
dra

Elfdalian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse þar, from Proto-Germanic *þar. Cognate with Swedish där.

Adverb

dar

there, in that place

Conjunction

dar

where (relative)
when (relative)
since, because

French

Etymology

Verlan derived from hard.

Adjective

dar (invariable)

(Verlan) hard
(Verlan) hot
(Verlan) rad

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dar (“to give”), from Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaɾ/ [ˈd̪aɾ]
Rhymes: -aɾ

Verb

dar (first-person singular present dou, first-person singular preterite dei, past participle dado)
dar (first-person singular present dou, first-person singular preterite dei, past participle dado, reintegrationist norm)

(ditransitive) to give
to hit
(intransitive) to start (a new, repeated activity, or a new state); to fall for [with en]
- 1697, Fabián Pardiñas, Eu oín a meus avós:
  Tolaje serà meterme
  Na Teologia Sagrada;
  Pero dei nesta tolaje,
  Porque os juezes cai en gracia.
  Foolishness will be to meddle
  With Sacred Theology;
  But I fell for this foolishness,
  Because the judges liked me
(intransitive) to hit [with en]

Conjugation

Conjugation of dar (irregular)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	dar
Personal	dar	dares	dar	darmos	dardes	daren
Gerund
	dando
Past participle
Masculine	dado			dados
Feminine	dada			dadas
Indicative
Present	dou	dás	dá	damos	dades	dan
Imperfect	daba	dabas	daba	dabamos	dabades	daban
Preterite	dei	deches	deu	demos	destes	deron
Pluperfect	dera	deras	dera	deramos	derades	deran
Future	darei	darás	dará	daremos	daredes	darán
Conditional	daría	darías	daría	dariamos	dariades	darían
Subjunctive
Present	dea	deas	dea	deamos	deades	dean
Imperfect	dese	deses	dese	désemos	désedes	desen
Future	der	deres	der	dermos	derdes	deren
Imperative
Affirmative		dá	dea	deamos	dade	dean
Negative (non)		non deas	non dea	non deamos	non deades	non dean

Reintegrated conjugation of dar (irregular) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	dar
Personal	dar	dares	dar	darmos	dardes	darem
Gerund
	dando
Past participle
Masculine	dado			dados
Feminine	dada			dadas
Indicative
Present	dou	dás	dá	damos	dades, dais	dam, dão
Imperfect	dava	davas	dava	dávamos	dávades, dáveis, dávais¹	davam
Preterite	dei	deste, deche¹	deu	demos	destes	dérom, deram
Pluperfect	dera	deras	dera	déramos	dérades, déreis, dérais¹	deram
Future	darei	darás	dará	daremos	daredes, dareis	darám, darão
Conditional	daria	darias	daria	daríamos	daríades, daríeis, daríais¹	dariam
Subjunctive
Present	dê	dês	dê	demos	dedes, deis	dem, deem
Imperfect	desse	desses	desse	déssemos	déssedes, désseis	dessem
Future	der	deres	der	dermos	derdes	derem
Imperative
Affirmative		dá	dê	demos	dade, dai	dem, deem
Negative (nom)		nom dês	nom dê	nom demos	nom dedes, nom deis	nom dem, nom deem

¹Less recommended.

Derived terms

dar conta

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “dar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “dar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German dār. See dar-. Doublet of da.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daːɐ̯/
Audio: (file)

Adverb

dar

(archaic) Only used in darstellen etc.

Interlingua

Verb

dar

to give

Conjugation

Conjugation of *dar*
participle		present	perfect
infinitive		dar
participle		dante	date

active		simple	perfect
	present	da	ha date
	past	dava	habeva date
	future	dara	habera date
	conditional	darea	haberea date
	imperative	da	—

passive		simple	perfect
	present	es date	ha essite date
	past	esseva date	habeva essite date
	future	essera date	habera essite date
	conditional	esserea date	haberea essite date
	imperative	sia date	—

Irish

Etymology 1

Fusion of do (“to, for”) or de (“from”) with the copular particle ar.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaɾˠ/

Particle

dar (before a vowel in the present/future darb, before a vowel in the past/conditional darbh) (used before a consonant sound; triggers lenition in the past/conditional)

to/for which/whom is
an fear dar miste é ― the man to whom it matters
to/for which/whom was/would be
an fear dar mhiste é ― the man to whom it mattered
from which/whom is
from which/whom was/would be

Related terms

Irish copular forms
simple copular forms
		affirmative	negative	interrogative	negative interrogative
present/future
main clause		is	ní	an	nach
relative clause	direct	is	nach	–
relative clause	indirect	ar, arb^v		–
other subordinate clause		gur, gurb^v		an	nach
past/conditional
main clause		ba, b’^v	níor, níorbh^v	ar, arbh^v	nár, nárbh^v
relative clause	direct	ba, ab^v	nár, nárbh^v	–
relative clause	indirect	ar, arbh^v		–
other subordinate clause		gur, gurbh^v		ar, arbh^v	nár, nárbh^v
present subjunctive
–		gura, gurab^v	nára, nárab^v	–

compound copular forms
base word		present/future		past/conditional
cá		cár, cárb^v		cár, cárbh^v
cé		cér, cérb^v		cér, cérbh^v
dá		–		dá mba, dá mb’^v
de/do		dar, darb^v		dar, darbh^v
faoi		faoinar, faoinarb^v		faoinar, faoinarbh^v
i		inar, inarb^v		inar, inarbh^v
le		lenar, lenarb^v		lenar, lenarbh^v
má		más		má ba, má b’^v
mura		mura, murab^v		murar, murarbh^v
ó (preposition)		ónar, ónarb^v		ónar, ónarbh^v
ó (conjunction)		ós		ó ba, ó b’^v
trí		trínar, trínarb^v		trínar, trínarbh^v

^v Used before vowel sounds

Irish preposition contractions

Basic form	Contracted with							Copular forms
Basic form	an (“the sg”)	na (“the pl”)	mo (“my”)	do (“your”)	a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár (“our”)	ar (“which (past)”)	(before consonant)	(present/future before vowel)	(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded, det	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do (“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod, dot	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi (“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i (“in”)	sa, san	sna	i mo im*	i do id, it	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le (“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led, let	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó (“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód, ót	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí (“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh
*Dialectal.

Etymology 2

Derived from Old Irish dar, alternative form of tar. Doublet of thar (“over”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaɾˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɪɾʲ/^[1]

Preposition

dar (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

by (in asseverations)
dar Dia! ― by God!

dar m'anam! ― upon my soul!

Derived terms

dar le

References

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

Italian

Verb

dar (apocopated)

Apocopic form of dare

Anagrams

rad

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dar (“to give”), from Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation

Audio (Paris): (file)

Verb

dar (Hebrew spelling דאר)^[1]

(transitive) to give (grant)
- 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[3], Editions Vidas Largas, page 3:
  Penso entonses a dar la notisya a sus paryentes i a su suegro Hayim Pacha.
  She then thought to give notice to her relatives and her brother-in-law Hayim Pacha.
- 2001, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[4], volume 22, page 82:
  O porke el ke se empresto el livro se olvida, o porke se averguensa de darlo atras manchado o arazgado, o mizmo porke, segun akontese munchas vezes, el es un bibliofil para el kual es difisil de separarse de un livro ke le paso por la mano, el fakto es ke por una o otra de estas razones i munchas mas, los livros emprestados a otros raramente tornan a sus lugar, en la biblioteka del ken los empresto.
  Either because he who lent the book forgot it, or because it shames one to give it back stained or torn, or even because, as it happens many times, he is a bibliophile for whom it is difficult to separate himself from a book that spent time in his hand, the fact is that for one or another of these reasons and many more, books lent to others rarely return to their place: in the library of who borrowed them.
- 2005, La Lettre Sépharade‎^[5], numbers 20–31, →ISBN, page 23:
  Sulucha, te dare un konsejo de nikochera: por sedaka, no tengas trato ni kon politikos, ni kon ombres kazados.
  Sulucha, I'll give you housewife advice: for charity, don't deal with either politicians or with married men.
- 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[6], page 293:
  Telefoní a “Kupat Holim” imediatamente, dieron la mizma repuesta:
  "Kale ke vengas para alhat al doktor del kuero"
  I immediately telephoned “Kupat Holim”; they gave me the same response: ‘It is necessary that you go to the skin doctor on Sunday.’
- 2009, ירון בן־נאה, תורכיה‎^[7], משרד החינוך, המזכירות הפדגוגית, המרכז לשילוב מורשת יהדות המזרח, page 190:
  “Sera komo un arvol plantado serka de la agua ke sus raizes estan asta el rio, raizes munças, no syente kalor, sus ojas kedan syempre freskas, no sufre en el anyo de sekura, i nunka keda de dar su fruto”.
  ‘It shall be like a tree planted near water [in] that its roots, many roots, stretch to the river; it feels no heat, its always keeps it leaves fresh, not suffering in the year of drought, and it never ceases to give fruit.’

Conjugation

conjugation of dar

number		singular			plural
infinitive			dar
gerund			dando
participle			dado
person		first person	second person	third person	first person	second person	third person
indicative		yo	tu	el eya	mozotros mozotras	vozotros vozotras	eyos eyas
	simple present	do	das	da	damos	dash	dan
	imperfect	dava	davas	dava	dávamos	davash	davan
	preterite	di	dates	dyo, dio	dimos	datesh	dyeron, dieron
	future	dare, daré	darás	dará	daremos	darásh	darán
	conditional	dariya	dariyas	dariya	dariyamos	dariyash	dariyan
subjunctive		yo	tu	el eya	mozotros mozotras	vozotros vozotras	eyos eyas
	present	dé	des	dé	demos	desh	den
	past	dyera, diera	dyeras, dieras	dyera, diera	dyéramos, diéramos	dyerash, dierash	dyeran, dieran
imperative		—		—	—		—
	affirmative	(dé)	da	(dé)	(demos)	da, dad	(den)
	negativo	(no dé)	no des	(no dé)	(no demos)	no desh	(no den)

References

^ “dar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Lithuanian dabar (“now”), Armenian դեռ (deṙ, “still, yet”), Proto-Slavic *dobrъ (“good, suitable”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dar/

Adverb

dár^[1]

yet; still
some more; still more
Mán rei̇̃kia dár pi̇́eno.
I need more milk.
else, if not (often or ever followed by subjuntive)
Kai̇̃p tadà dár bū́tų gãlima tai̇̃ išsprę́sti?
How else could I solve it?

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “yet”): jau

Conjunction

dar

yet; still

References

^ “dar” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

Maltese

Root
d-w-r
10 terms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daːr/
Homophone: dahar
Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

From Arabic دَار (dār).

Noun

dar f (plural djar, diminutive dwejra)

Etymology 2

From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

Verb

dar (imperfect jdur, past participle midur)

(intransitive) to turn; to veer; to change direction
(intransitive) to wander; to walk about; to travel

Conjugation

Conjugation of **dar**
positive forms
		singular			plural
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
perfect	m	dort	dort	dar	dorna	dortu	daru
perfect	f	dort	dort	daret	dorna	dortu	daru
imperfect	m	ndur	ddur	jdur	nduru	dduru	jduru
imperfect	f	ndur	ddur	ddur	nduru	dduru	jduru
imperative			dur			duru

Mirandese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare.

Verb

dar

to give

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian (dâr).

Noun

dar f

(botany) tree

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse þar.

Adverb

dar

(obsolete) there (alternative spelling of der).
Han budde dar all dan stund han livde.
He lived there his entire life.

References

Nynorskkorpuset - search for 'dar'
“der” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Verb

dar

(transitive) to give (hand over)
- 1277, “San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección Diplomática”, in Manuel Lucas Alvarez, Pedro Pablo Lucas Domínguez, editors, Liceo franciscano: revista de estudio e investigación, volume 42, numbers 124–126 (overall work in Spanish), Santiago: Caixa Galicia, published 1989, →ISSN, page 411:
  damus e outorgamus a uos […] Ia leyra derdade que abemus en Eires como departe pe-la leyra do casal de Cima de Villa en o qual mora Domingo Eanes, e da outra parte pe-los marcos que y estan chantados, e da outra parte pe-la careyra, e da outra parte pe-la pedra que esta en fondo desta leira; conuen a saber que vos fazades esta leira Ia cassa pera lagar e non fazades en ela outra casa nenuna nen poombal, nen tolades o carril da uila
  we give and grant you a field that we have in Eires, as it departs from the farm of Cimadevila where Domigo Eanes lives, in the other side by the boundary stones that are thrusted there, in the other side by the road, and in the other side by the rock that is at the end of this field; and you shall build in this field a winery, but you should not build there any other house or dovecote, nor should you occupy the road to the village
- 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:
  dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas
  You shall give this monastery’s abbess a dinner each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you shall give us for this dinner a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens.
- 13th century, Pero Gomes Barroso, [Pero Lourenço, comprastes]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1441:
  Poys vꝮ nõ derõ hy orto
  Because no one gave you a vegetable garden there.
- 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
  Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d’Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes
  Item, Xoán Cortido, citizen of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath that they had done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a sucking piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks.

Conjugation

Conjugation of dar

gerund		compound		gerund of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
infinitive				dar
gerund		simple		dando
past participle				singular		plural
		masculine		dado		dados
		feminine		dada		dadas
present participle				dante		dantes
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative mood		eu ei	tu	el~ele ela vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	eles elas
simple tenses	present	dou, don	dás	dá	damos	dades	dan
	imperfect	dava	davas	dava	davamos, dávamos	davades, dávades	davan
	preterite	dei, di, din	deste, diste, desche, dische, deche, diche	déu, dou, déo	demos	destes	deron
	pluperfect	dera	deras	dera	deramos, déramos	derades, dérades	deran
	future	darei	darás	dará	daremos	daredes	darán
	conditional	daria	darias	daria	dariamos, daríamos	dariades, daríades	dirian
compound tenses	present perfect	present of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	past anterior	preterite of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	pluperfect anterior	simple pluperfect of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	future perfect	future of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
subjunctive mood		eu ei	tu	el~ele ela vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	eles elas
simple tenses	present	dé, dê, dea, dia	dês, deas, dias	dé, dê, dea, dia	demos, deamos, diamos	dedes, deades, diades	den, dean, dian
	imperfect	desse	desses	desse	dessemos, déssemos	dessedes, déssedes	dessen
	future	der	deres	der	dermos	derdes	deren
compound tenses	present perfect	present subjunctive of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
	future perfect	future subjunctive of haver or tẽer¹ + past participle
imperative mood		—	tu	vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	—
affirmative		—	dá	dé, dê, dea, dia	demos, deamos, diamos	dade	—
negative		—	non dês, non deas, non dias	non dé, non dê, non dea, non dia	non demos, non deamos, non diamos	non dedes, non deades, non diades	—
personal infinitive		eu ei	tu	el~ele ela vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	eles elas
personal infinitive		dar	dares	dar	darmos	dardes	daren
¹teer and ter were also used, although all three were less common than haver.

Derived terms

Descendants

Fala: dal
Galician: dar
Portuguese: dar (see there for further descendants)

References

Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “dar”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “dar”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Old High German

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar, whence also Old English þær, Old Norse þar.

Adverb

dār

there

Descendants

German: da, dar-
Yiddish: דאָ (do)

Old Irish

Preposition

dar

Alternative form of tar

Derived terms

dar cenn

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Verb

dar

(transitive) to give (hand over)
- 10th or 11th century, anonymous, San Millan glosses, (as quoted by Coromines and Pascual):
  qui… pauperibus reddet : qui dat a los misquinos
  …who gives to the beggars…
- c. 1140, Cantar de myo Çid [Song of my Cid]; transcription by Per Abbat‎^[8]1207, folio 3v, line 138:
  Huebos auemos q̃ nos dedes los marchos
  We need that you give us the [gold] marks
  (literally, “We have a need that you to give us the marks”)
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 8v:
  […] si dierẽ del poluo della a beuer peſante de quatro dragmas al q̃ a dolor en el eſtentino a que llaman colon ſana luego.
  If they were to give four drams of weight of it powdered to drink to someone whose gut, the one they call colon, ached, he would be cured.
- 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 20vb:
  Dixo nr̃o ſẽnor amoyſen ſub aq̃ tu e el pueblo que ſaq̃ſt de egipto ala tierra q̃ iure aabraã á yſaac a iacob ẽ dix ato liñaie la dare trametre mio angel delante ti e detroyra tos eñemigos […]
  [Then] Our Lord said to Moses, “Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought out of Egypt, to the land I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob when I said ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I will send my angel before you and he will destroy your enemies. […] ”

Descendants

Ladino: dar, דאר
Spanish: dar (see there for further descendants)

References

Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “dar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 163

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

dar

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dāˀra, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdar/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ar
Syllabification: dar

Noun

dar m inan

gift
Synonyms: podarek, podarunek, prezent, upominek

Declension

Declension of dar

	singular	plural
nominative	dar	dary
genitive	daru	darów
dative	darowi	darom
accusative	dar	dary
instrumental	darem	darami
locative	darze	darach
vocative	darze	dary

Related terms

nouns

verbs

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dar (“to give”), from Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda(ʁ)/ [ˈda(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈda(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈda(ʁ)/ [ˈda(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda(ɻ)/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɾi/

Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ, (Brazil, with -r dropping) -a
Homophone: dá (Brazil, with -r dropping)
Hyphenation: dar

Verb

dar (first-person singular present dou, first-person singular preterite dei, past participle dado)

(ditransitive) to give
1. [transitive with a or para or indirect object pronoun]
  1. to transfer one’s possession of something to someone without anything in return
    Dar-te-ei um livro.
    I will give you a book.
    
    Synonym: ceder
    
    Antonym: receber
  2. to hand over (to pass something into someone’s hand)
    Dá-me tua mão.
    Give me your hand.
    
    Synonyms: entregar, passar
  3. to make a present or gift of
    Dei flores à minha mulher.
    I gave my wife flowers.
    
    Synonym: presentear
    
    Antonyms: ganhar, receber
  4. to provide a service
    A Igreja dá conforto aos pobres.
    The Church gives the poor comfort.
    
    Ele dá aulas de latim.
    He gives Latin classes.
    
    Synonym: oferecer
  5. to administer (to cause to take (medicine))
    Demos insulina a ele.
    We gave him insulin.
    
    Synonym: administrar
  6. (transitive) to give; to issue; to emit
    O João vai nos dar recomendações.
    João will give us recommendations.
    
    Ele gosta de dar ordens.
    He likes issuing orders.
2. [transitive with em or indirect object pronoun]
  1. to carry out a physical interaction with something
    Ela deu-me um beijo.
    She gave me a kiss.
  2. to cause a sensation or feeling
    A cerca me deu um choque elétrico.
    The fence gave me an electric shock.
    
    Essa música dá-me medo.
    That song frightens me.
    (literally, “That song gives me fear.”)
  3. to cause (to produce as a result)
    Comer rápido lhe dá azia.
    Eating quickly gives you a heartburn.
to yield; to produce; to generate
Esse poço dava água.
That well used to produce water.

As macieiras dão maçãs.
Apple trees produce apples.
(impersonal) to be possible, can [with para (+ subject pronoun (optional) with personal infinitive) ‘for someone to do something’]
Não dá para ele fazer isso.
He can't do that.

– Dá para o alcançarmos?
– Dá.
– Can we reach him?
– Yes, we can.
(transitive) to throw (to organise an event)
Darei uma festa amanhã.
I’ll throw a party tomorrow.
(transitive) to report (to publish or broadcast news) [with que (+ clause) ‘that ...’]
O jornal deu que se cancelaram os eventos.
The newspaper reported that the events had been cancelled.
(impersonal) to be reported (to be published or broadcasted, of news) [with em ‘a source’ and que (+ clause) ‘that ...’]
Deu no jornal que se cancelaram os eventos.
The newspaper reported that the events had been cancelled.
(literally, “It was reported in the newspaper that ...”)
(intransitive or transitive) to result in, to lead to [with em or transitive ‘a result’]
Não te preocupes, não dará em nada.
Don’t worry, it won’t lead to anything.
(impersonal, intransitive or auxiliary) to suffice, to be enough [with para ‘for something’; or with para (+ subject pronoun (optional) with personal infinitive) ‘for doing something’]
Com dez euros já dá para almoçar hoje.
Ten euros are enough to have lunch today.
(literally, “With ten euros it already suffices to have lunch today.”)

Synonym: bastar
(transitive) to make (to tend or be able to become)
Ela daria uma boa professora.
She would make a good teacher.
(transitive) to consider (assign some quality) [with direct object ‘someone/something’, along with por or como ‘as something’]
Depois de semanas procurando, deram-nos como desaparecidos.
After weeks of searching, they considered us to be missing.

Synonym: considerar
(transitive (Portugal) or intransitive (Brazil), colloquial) to defeat by a given score [with direct object (Portugal) or de (Brazil) ‘a score’, along with a (Portugal) or em (Brazil) ‘someone or someone's team’]
A minha equipa vai dar dois a zero à tua. (Portugal)
My team will beat yours 2-nil.

Meu time vai dar de dois a zero no seu. (Brazil)
My team will beat yours 2-nil.
(intransitive) to come across, to bump into (to find someone or something accidentally or in an unexpected condition) [with com ‘someone/something’]
Dei de cara com a Sandra hoje de manhã.
I bumped into Sandra this morning.
(Brazil, vulgar, slang) to put out, to allow to be sexually penetrated [with para ‘someone’]
Dei pra ele.
I put out for him.

Conjugation

Conjugation of dar (irregular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	dar
Personal	dar	dares	dar	darmos	dardes	darem
Gerund
	dando
Past participle
Masculine	dado			dados
Feminine	dada			dadas
Indicative
Present	dou	dás	dá	damos	dais	dão
Imperfect	dava	davas	dava	dávamos	dáveis	davam
Preterite	dei	deste	deu	demos	destes	deram
Pluperfect	dera	deras	dera	déramos	déreis	deram
Future	darei	darás	dará	daremos	dareis	darão
Conditional	daria	darias	daria	daríamos	daríeis	dariam
Subjunctive
Present	dê	dês	dê	demos, dêmos	deis	deem, dêem¹
Imperfect	desse	desses	desse	déssemos	désseis	dessem
Future	der	deres	der	dermos	derdes	derem
Imperative
Affirmative		dá	dê	demos, dêmos	dai	deem, dêem¹
Negative (não)		não dês	não dê	não demos, não dêmos	não deis	não deem, não dêem¹

¹Superseded.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dar.

Derived terms

Descendants

Angolar: ra
Annobonese: da
Guinea-Bissau Creole: da
Indo-Portuguese: dá
Kabuverdianu: da
Korlai Creole Portuguese: da
Macanese: dâ, dá
Kristang: da
Principense: da
Sãotomense: da
Saramaccan: dá

References

“dar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit दर (dara, “fear”).^[1] Compare Hindi डर (ḍar).

Noun

dar f

fear^[1]^[2]
Synonym: traś

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dar”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 65ab
^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e dar, -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 120b-121a

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dar/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ar

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Probably from a compound of de and iar(ă). It may also perhaps come from an intermediate form *deară, from Latin dē vērō, or from dē eā rē. See also doar.

Alternative forms

dară — regional
da' — colloquial, very frequent

Conjunction

dar

but

Synonyms

însă

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic даръ (darŭ), from Proto-Slavic *darъ (“gift”).

Noun

dar n (plural daruri)

gift
în dar ― as a gift

Declension

Declension of **dar**
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	dar	darul	daruri	darurile
genitive-dative	dar	darului	daruri	darurilor
vocative	darule		darurilor

Synonyms

cadou

References

“dar”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Romansch

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare.

Verb

dar

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to give

Conjugation

Conjugation of dar (Sursilvan)

	singular			plural
infinitive			dar
gerund			dend
past participle			dau
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	dun	das	dat	dein	deis	dattan
imperfect	davel	davas	dava	davan	davas	davan
future	vegnel a dar	vegns a dar	vegn a dar	vegnin a dar	vegnis a dar	vegnan a dar
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
direct present	dass	dasses	dass	dassen	dasses	dassen
indirect present	dassi	dassies	dassi	dassien	dassies	dassien
direct future	vegness a dar	vegnesses a dar	vegness a dar	vegnessen a dar	vegnesses a dar	vegnessen a dar
indirect future	vegnessi a dar	vegnessies a dar	vegnessi a dar	vegnessien a dar	vegnessies a dar	vegnessien a dar
subjunctive	che jeu	che ti	ch'el/ch'ella	che nus	che vus	ch'els/ch'ellas
present	detti	detties	detti	deien	deies	dettien
past	davi	davies	davi	davien	davies	davien
future	vegni a dar	vegnies a dar	vegni a dar	vegnîen a dar	vegnîes a dar	vegnien a dar
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
imperative		dai			dei

Conjugation of dar (Grischun)

	singular			plural
infinitive			dar
gerund			dend
past participle			dà
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	dun	das	dat	dain	dais	dattan
imperfect	deva	devas	deva	devan	devas	devan
future	vegnel a dar	vegns a dar	vegn a dar	vegnin a dar	vegnis a dar	vegnan a dar
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	dess	desses	dess	dessen	desses	dessen
future	vegness a dar	vegnesses a dar	vegness a dar	vegnessen a dar	vegnesses a dar	vegnessen a dar
subjunctive	che jeu	che ti	ch'el/ch'ella	che nus	che vus	ch'els/ch'ellas
present	dettia	dettias	dettia	dettian	dettias	dettian
future	vegni a dar	vegnies a dar	vegni a dar	vegnîen a dar	vegnîes a dar	vegnien a dar
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
imperative		dà			dai

Scots

Verb

dar (third-person singular simple present dars, present participle darin, simple past dart, past participle dart)

to dare

Alternative forms

daur

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Possibly a reduced form of nuair (“when”) (MacBain)^[1] or possibly from early modern an tan a, an dan a, from Old Irish in tan (“when”) from acc. sg. of Old Irish tan (“time”) (Seosamh Watson).^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪ər/, /t̪ar/

Conjunction

dar

(Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Mull, Perthshire) when (relative/non-interrogative)
Synonym: nuair
- 2005, Roy G. Wentworth, Rannsachadh air Fòn-eòlas Dualchainnt Ghàidhlig Gheàrrloch, Siorrachd Rois‎^[9], page 3:
  Bha sinne air na cuairteachdainn leis a’ Ghàidhlig dar a bha sinn nana cloinn
  We had been surrounded with Gaelic when we were children

References

^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 123
^ Seosamh Watson (1994) “Gaeilge na hAlban”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, §19.5, page 690: “Ar chónaisc neamhaithnidiúla eile a áirítear i nGaeilge na hAlban tá (…) /ə/,/də/, /dər/, /dər ə/ (? < an tan a) ‘nuair’”

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃rom.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dâːr/

Noun

dȃr m (Cyrillic spelling да̑р)

gift

Declension

Declension of *dar*
	singular	plural
nominative	dȃr	dȁrovi / dȃri
genitive	dȃra	dȁrōvā / dȃrā
dative	dȃru	dȁrovima / dȃrima
accusative	dȃr	dȁrove / dȃre
vocative	dȃru	dȁrovi / dȃri
locative	dȃru	dȁrovima / dȃrima
instrumental	dȃrom	dȁrovima / dȃrima

Synonyms

pòklon

Related terms

darovit

References

“dar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [dar]

Noun

dar m inan

gift

Declension

Declension of *dar*
(pattern *dub*)
	singular	plural
nominative	dar	dary
genitive	daru	darov
dative	daru	darom
accusative	dar	dary
locative	dare	daroch
instrumental	darom	darmi

Derived terms

darček

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dáːr/

Noun

dȃr m inan

gift (a talent or natural ability)
(archaic) gift (something given to another voluntarily, without charge)
Synonym: darílo
(usually in the plural, obsolete) immolation^[→SSKJ]
Synonym: darovȃnje

Declension

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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate, -ov- infix) , long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular
nom. sing.	dȃr
gen. sing.	darȗ
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	dȃr	darȏva	darȏvi
genitive rodȋlnik	darȗ	daróv	daróv
dative dajȃlnik	dȃru, dȃri	darȏvoma, darȏvama	darȏvom, dȃrȏvam
accusative tožȋlnik	dȃr	darȏva	darȏve, darȋ
locative mẹ̑stnik	dȃru, dȃri	darȏvih	darȏvih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	dȃrom	darȏvoma, darȏvama	darȏvi
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	dȃr	darȏva	darȏvi

less common, regional

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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent
nom. sing.	dȃr
gen. sing.	dȃra
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	dȃr	dȃra	dȃri
genitive rodȋlnik	dȃra	dȃrov	dȃrov
dative dajȃlnik	dȃru, dȃri	dȃroma, dȃrama	dȃrom, dȃram
accusative tožȋlnik	dȃr	dȃra	dȃre
locative mẹ̑stnik	dȃru, dȃri	dȃrih, dȃrah	dȃrih, dȃrah
instrumental orọ̑dnik	dȃrom	dȃroma, dȃrama	dȃri
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	dȃr	dȃra	dȃri

Derived terms

Somali

Verb

dar

to add
Walaal, caano higgu dar, fadlan.
Bro, add milk for me please.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dar (“to give”), from Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaɾ/ [ˈd̪aɾ]
Audio (Bolivia): (file)
Audio (Latin America): (file)
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: dar

Verb

dar (first-person singular present doy, first-person singular preterite di, past participle dado)

(transitive) to give, to give out
(transitive) to hand over
(transitive) to hit
Me han dado en la cabeza.
They hit me on my head.
(transitive) to emit
(transitive) to produce
(transitive) to perform
(transitive) to consider
Doy eso por menos que yo.
I consider that beneath me.

Yo lo doy por muerto.
I consider him dead.
(intransitive) to encounter; to find with effort [with con]
Dimos con María.
We encountered Maria.

Dimos con el edificio después de tres horas.
We finally found the building after three hours.
(transitive) to hit upon
(intransitive, colloquial) to press, activate [with a ‘a button, mechanism, etc.’]
darle al botón ― to press the button
(transitive, colloquial) to ruin; mess up
Me dio la noche ― It ruined the night for me
(reflexive) to occur
(reflexive) to grow naturally
El maíz se da en esta tierra. ― Corn grows on this land.
(reflexive) to hit
El coche se dio con/contra un árbol.
The car hit a tree.
(reflexive) to assume [with por (+ past participle) ‘to be in some state’]
darse por vencido ― to assume to be defeated

darse por muerto ― to assume to be dead
(reflexive, informal) to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were
Se las da de enfermero pero nunca ha estudiado.
He pretends to be a nurse, but he's never studied. ('las' refers to the implicit feminine noun 'cosas'—"Se da las cosas de enfermero"
(reflexive, Mexico) to surrender
¿Te das? — Me doy.
Do you surrender? — I surrender.
(reflexive, transitive, vulgar, El Salvador) to fuck (used with third person direct objects only)
Vos solo te la das.
You just fuck her.

Me quiero dar a José.
I want to fuck José.
(transitive, colloquial, Rioplatense) to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with)
Le re doy. ― I think she/he is really hot.
(transitive, of weather) to announce, predict
Dan lluvia. ― They announced rain.

Conjugation

Conjugation of dar (irregular) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			dar
gerund			dando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		dado		dada
		plural		dados		dadas
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	doy	das	da	damos	dais	dan
	imperfect	daba	dabas	daba	dábamos	dabais	daban
	preterite	di	diste	dio	dimos	disteis	dieron
	future	daré	darás	dará	daremos	daréis	darán
	conditional	daría	darías	daría	daríamos	daríais	darían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	dé	des	dé	demos	deis	den
	imperfect (ra)	diera	dieras	diera	diéramos	dierais	dieran
	imperfect (se)	diese	dieses	diese	diésemos	dieseis	diesen
	future¹	diere	dieres	diere	diéremos	diereis	dieren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		da	dé	demos	dad	den
	negative		no des	no dé	no demos	no deis	no den

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.

Selected combined forms of dar (irregular)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive dar	dative	darme	darte	darle, darse	darnos	daros	darles, darse
with infinitive dar	accusative	darme	darte	darlo, darla, darse	darnos	daros	darlos, darlas, darse

with gerund dando	dative	dándome	dándote	dándole, dándose	dándonos	dándoos	dándoles, dándose
with gerund dando	accusative	dándome	dándote	dándolo, dándola, dándose	dándonos	dándoos	dándolos, dándolas, dándose

with informal second-person singular tú/vos imperative da	dative	dame	date	dale	danos	not used	dales
with informal second-person singular tú/vos imperative da	accusative	dame	date	dalo, dala	danos	not used	dalos, dalas

with formal second-person singular imperative dé	dative	deme	not used	dele, dese	denos	not used	deles
with formal second-person singular imperative dé	accusative	deme	not used	delo, dela, dese	denos	not used	delos, delas

with first-person plural imperative demos	dative	not used	démoste	démosle	démonos	démoos	démosles
with first-person plural imperative demos	accusative	not used	démoste	démoslo, démosla	démonos	démoos	démoslos, démoslas

with informal second-person plural imperative dad	dative	dadme	not used	dadle	dadnos	daos	dadles
with informal second-person plural imperative dad	accusative	dadme	not used	dadlo, dadla	dadnos	daos	dadlos, dadlas

with formal second-person plural imperative den	dative	denme	not used	denle	dennos	not used	denles, dense
with formal second-person plural imperative den	accusative	denme	not used	denlo, denla	dennos	not used	denlos, denlas, dense

Conjugation of darse (irregular) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			darse
gerund			dándose
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		dado		dada
		plural		dados		dadas
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
personal non-finite		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	infinitive	darme	darte	darse	darnos	daros	darse
	gerund	dándome	dándote	dándose	dándonos	dándoos	dándose

indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	me doy	te das	se da	nos damos	os dais	se dan
	imperfect	me daba	te dabas	se daba	nos dábamos	os dabais	se daban
	preterite	me di	te diste	se dio	nos dimos	os disteis	se dieron
	future	me daré	te darás	se dará	nos daremos	os daréis	se darán
	conditional	me daría	te darías	se daría	nos daríamos	os daríais	se darían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	me dé	te des	se dé	nos demos	os deis	se den
	imperfect (ra)	me diera	te dieras	se diera	nos diéramos	os dierais	se dieran
	imperfect (se)	me diese	te dieses	se diese	nos diésemos	os dieseis	se diesen
	future¹	me diere	te dieres	se diere	nos diéremos	os diereis	se dieren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		date	dese	démonos	daos	dense
	negative		no te des	no se dé	no nos demos	no os deis	no se den

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.

Derived terms

Descendants

Chavacano: dale

Swedish

Noun

dar

Contraction of dagar., indefinite plural of dag; sometimes written da'r

Anagrams

dra, rad

Tat

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾl, “tree, gallows; wood”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /dāruv/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Cognate with Persian and Northern Kurdish dar.

Noun

dar

tree

Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طار, دار (dar, “narrow; difficult; with difficulty”),^[1] from Proto-Turkic *tār, *t(i)ār (“narrow”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (tar).

Adjective

dar

narrow
scant
close-fitting, tight - (for close-fitting as a textile style, a calque of "body" or "badi" is widely used and understood.)
badi tişört ― close-fitting t-shirt

dar elbise ― tight dressdar ayakkabı ― tight shoes
limited
dar gelirli ― low-income

dar gelir ― limited income

Antonyms

geniş
bol

Adverb

dar

(figuratively) barely, narrowly
Synonyms: darı darına, ucu ucuna, anca, ancak, zar zor, güçlükle, güç bela

Etymology 2

Derived from Arabic دَار (dār).^[2]

Noun

dar

(obsolete, only used in compounds) house, place

Derived terms

dareyn — two places (especially this world and heaven).
darülfünun — university

References

^ Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dar2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Venetan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dare, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”); compare Italian dare.

Verb

dar

(transitive) to give
(transitive) to deliver

Yagara

Noun

dar

earth

References

State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.

[1] Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

[Folkmasa-2] “dar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

[3] “dar” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

[bi-4] 1.0 ^1.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dar”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 65ab

[5] Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e dar, -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 120b-121a

[6] MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 123

[7] Seosamh Watson (1994) “Gaeilge na hAlban”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, §19.5, page 690: “Ar chónaisc neamhaithnidiúla eile a áirítear i nGaeilge na hAlban tá (…) /ə/,/də/, /dər/, /dər ə/ (? < an tan a) ‘nuair’”

[8] Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

[9] Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dar2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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