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fare

See also: Fare, faré, fâre, fārè, and farë

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English fare, from the merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

NounEdit

fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

  1. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
  2. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
  3. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  4. (uncountable) Food and drink.
    • 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.”
  5. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  6. (countable, Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“a going, passage”). Cognate with 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)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
    Behold! A knight fares forth.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
      […] And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17:
      Then he came down rejoicing and said, "I have seen what seemeth to be a city as 'twere a pigeon." Hereat we rejoiced and, ere an hour of the day had passed, the buildings showed plain in the offing and we asked the Captain, "What is the name of yonder city?" and he answered "By Allah I wot not, for I never saw it before and never sailed these seas in my life: but, since our troubles have ended in safety, remains for you only to land their with your merchandise and, if you find selling profitable, sell and make your market of what is there; and if not, we will rest here two days and provision ourselves and fare away.
  2. (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.
    • 1642, John Denham, "Cooper's Hill"
      So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
    • 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.
  3. (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Luke xvi. 19
      There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.
  4. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
    We shall see how it will fare with him.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
      So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
  5. (intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance
    We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
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TranslationsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from fare (all parts of speech)

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

fare

  1. totally, wholly, completely
  2. (with negatives) at all

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /faːrə/, [ˈfɑːɑ]

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

fare c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite farer)

  1. danger, hazard
  2. risk
InflectionEdit
Declension of fare
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fare faren farer farerne
genitive fares farens farers farernes

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)

  1. rush, run (originally go)

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

fare (imperative far, infinitive at fare, present tense farer, past tense farede, perfect tense har faret)

  1. farrow

EsperantoEdit

AdverbEdit

fare

  1. by the action, by the initiative, by the effort, by order

Usage notesEdit

  • Followed by the word de, forming the preposition fare de.

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō, from Proto-Italic *fakiō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈfaː.re], /ˈfare/
  • Audio
    		(file)
  • Hyphenation: fà‧re
  • Rhymes: -are

VerbEdit

fare

  1. (transitive) to do
  2. (transitive) to make
  3. (transitive) to act
  4. (transitive) to get someone to be something

ConjugationEdit

    Conjugation of fare
infinitive fare
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

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Derived terms

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NounEdit

fare m (plural fari)

  1. manner, way

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Low German vare

NounEdit

fare m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural farer, definite plural farene)

  1. danger
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from fare (noun)

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse fara.

VerbEdit

fare (imperative far, present tense farer, simple past for, past participle fart, present participle farende)

  1. go; travel
  2. rush; tear
  3. (shipping) sail
  4. (archaic, poetry) travel; voyage
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Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Low German vare

NounEdit

fare m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural farar, definite plural farane)

  1. danger
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse fara

VerbEdit

fare (present tense fer, past tense fór, past participle fare, passive infinitive farast, present participle farande, imperative far)

  1. Alternative form of fara
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TahitianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Polynesian *fale

NounEdit

fare

  1. A house

TarantinoEdit

VerbEdit

fare

  1. (intransitive) To do or make

ConjugationEdit

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic فَأْرَة‎ (faʾra).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

fare (definite accusative fareyi, plural fareler)

  1. mouse
  2. (computing) mouse

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative fare
Definite accusative fareyi
Singular Plural
Nominative fare fareler
Definite accusative fareyi fareleri
Dative fareye farelere
Locative farede farelerde
Ablative fareden farelerden
Genitive farenin farelerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular farem farelerim
2nd singular faren farelerin
3rd singular faresi fareleri
1st plural faremiz farelerimiz
2nd plural fareniz fareleriniz
3rd plural fareleri fareleri
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular fareyim farelerim
2nd singular faresin farelersin
3rd singular fare
faredir 		fareler
farelerdir
1st plural fareyiz fareleriz
2nd plural faresiniz farelersiniz
3rd plural fareler farelerdir

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • fare in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

WestrobothnianEdit

Pronunciation 1Edit

  • IPA(key): [fɑ̀ːɾe̞], [fä̀ːɾe̞], [fæ̀ːɾe̞]

NounEdit

fare m

  1. vocative singular of far

Pronunciation 2Edit

  • IPA(key): [fóːɾe̞], [fɒ́ːɾe̞], [fɑ́ːɾe̞]

NounEdit

fare n

  1. definite nominative & accusative singular of far
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