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fare

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

English

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Etymology 1

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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”).

Noun

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fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

  2. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey
  4. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
    train fare
    bus fare
    taxi fare
  6. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  8. (uncountable) Food and drink.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      “ […] 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.”
  10. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
    The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
  12. (countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“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”).

Verb

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fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past fared, past participle fared or (archaic) faren)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
    Behold! A knight fares forth.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      […] And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXV, page 42:
      I know that this was Life,—the track
      ⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared;
      ⁠And then, as now, the day prepared
      The daily burden for the back.
    • 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.
    • 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:
      There are many discomforting gaps in statistics about the book trades generally, but the reprint sector fares worst—it has no statistical summary or trend reports based on factual evidence.
    • 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.
    • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wreccker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
      While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.
  3. (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
  4. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
    We shall see how it will fare with him.
  5. (intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance
    We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
    • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎[2]:
      He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.
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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From farë (“seed, semen, kind”).[1]

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Adverb

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fare

  1. totally, wholly, completely
  2. kind
    Ç'farë? ~ Ç'fare? ― What kind? (~ What? How?)
  3. (with negatives) at all

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  1. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 223.

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfaːrə/, [ˈfɑːɑ]

Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German vāre (“danger, persecution, fear”), from Old Saxon fāra, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”), cognate with English fear, German Gefahr.

Noun

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fare c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite farer)

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

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, English fare, German fahren.

Verb

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fare (past tense farede or for, past participle faret)

  1. to rush, run
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Inflection of fare
present past
simple farer for or farede
perfect er faret var faret
passive fares —
participle farende faret
imperative far —
infinitive fare —
auxiliary verb være —
gerund faren —

Etymology 3

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Derived from Old Danish *far (“pig”), from Old Norse *farr, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, cognate with Swedish fargalt, English farrow, German Ferkel, Dutch varken. The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, hence also Latin porcus, Polish prosię (“piglet”).

Verb

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fare (past tense farede, past participle faret)

  1. to farrow
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Inflection of fare
present past
simple farer farede
perfect har faret havde faret
passive fares —
participle farende faret
imperative far —
infinitive fare —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund faren —

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Adverb

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fare

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

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

Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

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fàre (first-person singular present fàccio, first-person singular past historic féci, past participle fàtto, first-person singular imperfect facévo, second-person singular imperative fài or fà', auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to do
  2. (transitive) to make
    1. to create
    2. to bring about
      fare rumore ― to make noise
      fare disordine ― to cause disorder
    3. to behave or act [with da ‘as’]
      fate i bravi ― be good (literally, “act as good (boys and girls)”)
      fare la cavia ― to be a guinea pig (literally, “act as a guinea pig”)
      un tavolo che fa da scrivania ― a table that acts as a desk
    4. to constitute
      fate una bella coppia ― you (guys) make a nice couple
    5. to numerically result in; to add up to
      due e tre fanno cinque ― two and three make five
      due per tre fanno sei ― two times three make six
    6. to formulate in the mind
    7. to cause to be; to render
    8. (ditransitive) to compel
    9. (ditransitive) to force
  3. to provoke (a physical sensation)
    mi fai il solletico ― you are tickling me (literally, “you provoke on me a tickling feeling”)
  4. (transitive) to inflict (damage, pain, etc.) on
    fargli un livido ― to give him a bruise (literally, “inflict a bruise on him”)
  5. (transitive) to cause or arouse (an emotion)
    mi fa paura ― it scares me (literally, “it arouses fear within me”)
  6. (transitive) to draw up or enter into (a contract, agreement, etc.)
  7. (transitive) to emit from the body
    fare sangue dal naso ― to nosebleed (literally, “emit blood from the nose”)
  8. (transitive) to have (a baby)
  9. (transitive) to produce a lot of (fruit or flowers) (of a plant)
  10. (transitive) to have (a certain population) (of a state, country, etc.)
    l'USA fa circa 300 milioni di abitanti ― the USA has about 300 million inhabitants
  11. (transitive, informal) to cost
    quanto fa il gelato? ― how much does the ice cream cost?
    1. to sell [with a ‘for (a price)’]
      a quanto le fai? ― at how much are you selling them for?
  12. (transitive) to clean up
    fai la stanza! ― clean up your room!
    fare la barba ― to shave (literally, “clean up one's beard”)
  13. (transitive) to address
    mi ha fatto gli auguri ― he congratulated me (literally, “he addressed congratulations to me”)
    fare un invito ― to address an invite
  14. (transitive) to organize or celebrate (an event, party, etc.)
    fare una festa ― to throw a party
    fare la comunione ― to celebrate a communion
  15. (transitive) to stage (a play, movie, etc.)
    1. to produce or participate in (a play, movie, etc.) (of a director, actor, etc.)
    2. to interpret (a role, character, etc.); to act
    3. to be planned or scheduled (at a certain time) [with a or in] (of a movie, show, etc., chiefly in the form fanno)
      cosa fanno al cinema?
      what (movies) do they have scheduled at the movie theater?
  16. (transitive) to be subscribed to; to do regularly
    1. to attend (a school), to be in (a grade level)
      faccio la terza media ― I am in the eighth grade
    2. to practice (a hobby, sport, etc.)
      fa ballet ― she does ballet
  17. (transitive) to follow (a road, etc.)
    fare via Garibaldi ― to follow Garibaldi street
  18. (transitive) to visit (a country, city, etc.)
    fare l'Italia ― to visit Italy
  19. (transitive) to last (an amount of time)
    questa macchina ha fatto due anni ― this car lasted two years
    1. (transitive, informal) to turn (an age)
      mia sorella ha fatto undici anni ― my sister turned eleven
  20. (transitive, informal) to gift
    mi hanno fatto il computer ― they gifted me a computer
  21. (pronominal transitive, vulgar) to have sex with someone
    Mi sono fatto una ragazza.
    I fucked with a girl.
  22. (transitive) to tell or indicate (the time)
    la sveglia fa le sette ― the alarm clock says it's seven o'clock
  23. (transitive) to do until (a time, typically at night)
    fare le dieci all'università
    to attend the university until ten o'clock
  24. (transitive) to caricature
    un dipintore che può fare tanti personaggi famosi ― a painter who can caricature many famous characters
  25. (transitive) to spend; to pass (of time)
    fare la notte a casa tua ― to spend the night at your house
  26. (transitive) to live or lead (a kind of life)
    fare una vita comoda ― to live a comfortable life
  27. (transitive) to pronounce, judge, or evaluate
    lo facevo morto ― I pronounced him dead
  28. (transitive) (with che + subj.) to suppose or consider
    fa' che lei potesse stare ― suppose she could stay
  29. (transitive) to gather
    fare legna ― to gather firewood
    1. (transitive) to stock up on
      fare viveri ― to stock up on supplies
  30. (transitive) to work as (a profession)
    faccio il maestro ― I work as a teacher
  31. (transitive) to elect or nominate
  32. (transitive, sports, card games) to score
    fare un gol ― to score a goal
  33. (transitive) to make appear
    la maglia fa avvenente ― the shirt makes you look attractive
    1. to create impressions of
      le maniche corte fanno estate ― short sleeves create impressions of summer
  34. (transitive) (with inf.) to let
  35. (transitive) (with [di + inf.] or [che + subj.]) to strive or endeavor
  36. (intransitive) to be suitable [with per ‘for’] [auxiliary avere]
    questo lavoro non fa per me
    this work is not (suitable) for me
  37. (intransitive) to play [with a] [auxiliary avere]
    fare a nascondino ― to play hide and seek
  38. (intransitive) to be spent or to have gone by; to mark [auxiliary avere] (of time)
    oggi fanno due mesi che si sono sposati
    today marks two months from when they got married
  39. (intransitive, impersonal) to be (hot, cold, etc.) [auxiliary avere] (of the weather, climate, etc.)
    fa freddo ― it's cold
  40. (intransitive, grammar) to have as an inflected form [auxiliary avere] (of a word)
    come fa il plurale di "pianta?" ― what is the plural of "pianta?"
  41. (intransitive) to go (to say something or make a sound) [auxiliary avere]
  42. (intransitive) to go (to be expressed or composed) [auxiliary avere]
  43. (intransitive) to be formed by a sequence [auxiliary avere]
    il mio codice fa 4769 ― my code is 4769 (literally, “is formed by the sequence 4769”)
  44. (intransitive) (typically with [a + inf.] or [per + inf.]) to be able to [auxiliary avere]
  45. (intransitive, rare) to take root [auxiliary avere] (of a plant)
  46. (intransitive, rare) to suffice [auxiliary avere] (of a plant)

Usage notes

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The second person imperative has univerbated compound forms:

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of fàre (-ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive fàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund facèndo
present participle facènte past participle fàtto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present fàccio fài fà1 facciàmo fàte fànno
imperfect facévo facévi facéva facevàmo facevàte facévano
past historic féci facésti féce facémmo facéste fécero
future farò farài farà farémo faréte farànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present farèi farésti farèbbe, farébbe farémmo faréste farèbbero, farébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present fàccia fàccia fàccia facciàmo facciàte fàcciano
imperfect facéssi facéssi facésse facéssimo facéste facéssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
fài, fà' fàccia facciàmo fàte fàcciano
negative imperative non fàre non fàccia non facciàmo non fàte non fàcciano

1With syntactic gemination after the verb.

Including lesser-used forms:

    Conjugation of fàre (-ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive fàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund facèndo
present participle facènte past participle fàtto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present fàccio, fò1,2 fài, fàci3 fà2, fàce4 facciàmo fàte fànno
imperfect facévo facévi facéva, féa4 facevàmo facevàte facévano, féano4
past historic féci, féi4 facésti, fésti4 féce, fé2,4,6, fé2,4, fé'4, féo4 facémmo, fémmo4 facéste, féste4 fécero, fénno4, férono4, féciono4, féro4
future farò farài farà farémo faréte farànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present farèi farésti farèbbe, farébbe farémmo faréste farèbbero, farébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present fàccia fàccia fàccia facciàmo facciàte fàcciano
imperfect facéssi, féssi4 facéssi, féssi4 facésse, fésse4 facéssimo, féssimo4 facéste, féste4 facéssero, féssero4
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
fài, fà', fà2,5 fàccia facciàmo fàte fàcciano
negative imperative non fàre non fàccia non facciàmo non fàte non fàcciano

1Literary, archaic or regional.
2With syntactic gemination after the verb.
3Archaic.
4Archaic or poetic.
5Disused.
6With written accent.

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fare m (plural fari)

  1. manner, way

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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fāre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of for

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fāre (Late Latin)

  1. Alternative form of facere, present active infinitive of faciō

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Middle English

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FWOTD – 7 November 2022

Etymology 1

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Originally two distinct nouns:

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fare (uncountable)

  1. A journey, course, or travel.
  2. A group on a journey.
  3. A proceeding or occurrence:
    1. Behaviour or appearance.
    2. Condition or fortune.
    3. A commotion or disturbance.
  4. Provisions, especially food.
  5. (rare) A path or way.
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  • English: fare
  • Scots: fare
  • Yola: gudeváre
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Etymology 2

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fare

  1. Alternative form of faren

Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

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fare

  1. to do
  2. to make
  3. to act
  4. to behave
  5. to fuck (vulgar, colloquial)

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    Conjugation of fare (second conjugation, tonic)
infinitive fare
gerund facenno
present participle facente
past participle fatto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je/i' tu isso/essa nuje vuje lloro
present faccio faje fa facimme facite fanno
imperfect facevo facive faceva facevamo faciveve facevano
passato remòto facette faciste facette facettemo facisteve facetteno/facettero
future faciarraggio faciarraje faciarrà faciarrimme faciarrite faciarranno
conditional faciarría faciarrisse farría faciarríame faciarrisseve faciarríano
compound
tenses 		passato pròssimo Use the present tense of avé plus the past participle
trapasato pròssimo Use the imperfect tense of avé plus the past participle
trapasato remòto Use the passato remòto tense of avé plus the past participle
futuro anteriore Use the future tense of avé plus the past participle
cunnizziunale passato Use the conditional tense of avé plus the past participle
imperfect subjunctive ca je/i' ca tu ca isso/ca essa ca nuje ca vuje ca lloro
facesse facisse facesse facessemo facisseve facesseno
imperative - tu isso/essa nuje vuje lloro
faje face facimme facite fanno

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1521: “fare il bucato” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “fare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German vare.

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

  1. danger
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse fara.

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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 Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German vare, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”). Compare Swedish fara.

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

  1. danger
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną.

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fare (present tense fer, past tense fór, supine fare, past participle faren, present participle farande, imperative far)

  1. Alternative form of fara (fara is split-infinitive and/or a-infinitive verb form)
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fare

  1. first-person singular present indicative of faran

Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle Scots fare, from Middle English faren, from Old English faran, from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por-.

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IPA(key): /feːr/, /fɛr/

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fare

  1. to go, travel, get on

Tahitian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *fale.

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fare

  1. A house

Tarantino

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fare

  1. (intransitive) to do, to make

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish فاره, from Arabic فَأْرَة (faʔra). The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

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fare (definite accusative fareyi, plural fareler)

  1. mouse
    Synonym: sıçan
  2. (computing) mouse

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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
Nominative
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
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular faremi farelerimi
2nd singular fareni farelerini
3rd singular faresini farelerini
1st plural faremizi farelerimizi
2nd plural farenizi farelerinizi
3rd plural farelerini farelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular fareme farelerime
2nd singular farene farelerine
3rd singular faresine farelerine
1st plural faremize farelerimize
2nd plural farenize farelerinize
3rd plural farelerine farelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular faremde farelerimde
2nd singular farende farelerinde
3rd singular faresinde farelerinde
1st plural faremizde farelerimizde
2nd plural farenizde farelerinizde
3rd plural farelerinde farelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular faremden farelerimden
2nd singular farenden farelerinden
3rd singular faresinden farelerinden
1st plural faremizden farelerimizden
2nd plural farenizden farelerinizden
3rd plural farelerinden farelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular faremin farelerimin
2nd singular farenin farelerinin
3rd singular faresinin farelerinin
1st plural faremizin farelerimizin
2nd plural farenizin farelerinizin
3rd plural farelerinin farelerinin
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

Further reading

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  • “fare”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English fearen, from Old English fǣran.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fare (simple past vear'd)

  1. to frighten
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Dinna fare a caulès.
      Don't frighten the horses.
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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39
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