fare
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɛəɹ/, /fɛːɹ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɛɚ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
- Homophone: fair
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English fare, from the merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”), a neuter, + faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), feminine, from Proto-Germanic *farą, *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”).
NounEdit
fare (plural fares)
- (obsolete) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
- Money paid for a transport ticket.
- A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- Food and drink.
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1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
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- Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
- (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
SynonymsEdit
- (journey): see Wikisaurus:journey
- (prostitute's client): see Wikisaurus:prostitute's client
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
money paid for a transport ticket
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paying passenger
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food and drink
supplies for consumption or pleasure
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Translations to be checked
ReferencesEdit
- “fare” in Eric Partridge; Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-21259-5.
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to journey”), from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”). Cognates include West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).
VerbEdit
fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past fared or (archaic) fore, past participle fared or (rare) faren)
- (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
- (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
- Denham
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
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2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
- Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
- Denham
- (intransitive) To eat, dine.
- Bible, Luke xvi. 19
- There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.
- Bible, Luke xvi. 19
- (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
- We shall see how it will fare with him.
- Milton
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to travel
to get along
to eat, dine
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from fare (all parts of speech)
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
fare c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite farer)
InflectionEdit
Declension of fare
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną.
VerbEdit
fare (imperative far, present farer, past farede or for or fór, past participle faret)
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
fare (imperative far, infinitive at fare, present tense farer, past tense farede, perfect tense har faret)
EsperantoEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō, from Proto-Italic *fakiō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
fare
- (transitive) to do
- (transitive) to make
- (transitive) to act
- (transitive) to get someone to be something
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of fare
| infinitive | fare | |||||
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| auxiliary verb | avere | gerund | facendo | |||
| present participle | facente | past participle | fatto | |||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
| present | faccio, fo | fai | fa | facciamo | fate | fanno |
| imperfect | facevo | facevi | faceva | facevamo | facevate | facevano |
| past historic | feci | facesti | fece | facemmo | faceste | fecero |
| future | farò | farai | farà | faremo | farete | faranno |
| conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
| present | farei | faresti | farebbe | faremmo | fareste | farebbero |
| subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
| present | faccia | faccia | faccia | facciamo | facciate | facciano |
| imperfect | facessi | facessi | facesse | facessimo | faceste | facessero |
| imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
| fa, fa', fai, non fare | faccia | facciamo | fate | facciano | ||
Related termsEdit
Related terms
NounEdit
fare m (plural fari)
- manner, way
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
fāre
- second-person singular present active imperative of for
- second-person singular present active indicative of for
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Low German vare
NounEdit
fare m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural farer, definite plural farene)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
fare (imperative far, present tense farer, simple past for, past participle fart, present participle farende)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “fare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Low German vare
NounEdit
fare m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural farar, definite plural farane)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
fare (present tense fer, past tense fór, past participle fare, passive infinitive farast, present participle farande, imperative far)
- Alternative form of fara
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “fare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
TahitianEdit
TarantinoEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fare (definite accusative fareyi, plural fareler)
SynonymsEdit
DeclensionEdit
declension of fare
possessive forms of fare
predicative forms of fare
| simple present | singular | plural |
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| ben (I am) | fareyim | farelerim* |
| sen (you are) | faresin | farelersin* |
| o (he/she/it is) | fare / faredir | fareler* / farelerdir* |
| biz (we are) | fareyiz | fareleriz |
| siz (you are) | faresiniz | farelersiniz |
| onlar (they are) | fareler | farelerdir |
| simple past | singular | plural |
| ben (I was) | fareydim | farelerdim* |
| sen (you were) | fareydin | farelerdin* |
| o (he/she/it was) | fareydi | farelerdi* |
| biz (we were) | fareydik | farelerdik |
| siz (you were) | fareydiniz | farelerdiniz |
| onlar (they were) | fareydiler | farelerdi |
| indirect / unwitnessed past | singular | plural |
| ben (I was) | fareymişim | farelermişim* |
| sen (you were) | fareymişsin | farelermişsin* |
| o (he/she/it was) | fareymiş | farelermiş* |
| biz (we were) | fareymişiz | farelermişiz |
| siz (you were) | fareymişsiniz | farelermişsiniz |
| onlar (they were) | fareymişler | farelermiş |
| *Not used, but perhaps rarely - chiefly grammatical formations.
Note: Plural forms are not used with adjectives. |
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Further readingEdit
- fare in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu