danser
Afrikaans
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch danser. Equivalent to dansen + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɑnsər/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: dan‧ser
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: danser
French
Etymology
From Middle French danser, from Old French dancer, dancier (“to dance”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch (oneself), gesture”), a variant of *dinsan. Displaced Old French baller, from Latin ballare (“to dance”). Cognate with Old High German dansōn (“to draw, pull”), Old Dutch þinsan (“to move, tear”), Old High German dinsan (“to draw out”), Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌽 (þinsan, “to drag, draw, pull”), Old English þennan, þenian (“to stretch, stretch out, spread out, extend”). Related to thin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑ̃.se/
audio (file)
Conjugation
present participle | dansant /dɑ̃.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | dansé /dɑ̃.se/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | danser | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | dansant /dɑ̃.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | danse /dɑ̃s/ |
danses /dɑ̃s/ |
danse /dɑ̃s/ |
dansons /dɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
dansez /dɑ̃.se/ |
dansent /dɑ̃s/ |
imperfect | dansais /dɑ̃.sɛ/ |
dansais /dɑ̃.sɛ/ |
dansait /dɑ̃.sɛ/ |
dansions /dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
dansiez /dɑ̃.sje/ |
dansaient /dɑ̃.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | dansai /dɑ̃.se/ |
dansas /dɑ̃.sa/ |
dansa /dɑ̃.sa/ |
dansâmes /dɑ̃.sam/ |
dansâtes /dɑ̃.sat/ |
dansèrent /dɑ̃.sɛʁ/ | |
future | danserai /dɑ̃.sʁe/ |
danseras /dɑ̃.sʁa/ |
dansera /dɑ̃.sʁa/ |
danserons /dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ |
danserez /dɑ̃.sʁe/ |
danseront /dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | danserais /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
danserais /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
danserait /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
danserions /dɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
danseriez /dɑ̃.sə.ʁje/ |
danseraient /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | danse /dɑ̃s/ |
danses /dɑ̃s/ |
danse /dɑ̃s/ |
dansions /dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
dansiez /dɑ̃.sje/ |
dansent /dɑ̃s/ |
imperfect2 | dansasse /dɑ̃.sas/ |
dansasses /dɑ̃.sas/ |
dansât /dɑ̃.sa/ |
dansassions /dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
dansassiez /dɑ̃.sa.sje/ |
dansassent /dɑ̃.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | danse /dɑ̃s/ |
— | dansons /dɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
dansez /dɑ̃.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “danser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French dancer, dancier (“to dance”), from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch (oneself), gesture”), from Proto-Germanic *þansōną, from *þinsaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch, pull”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
danser m (definite singular danseren, indefinite plural dansere, definite plural danserne)
- a dancer
Derived terms
- ballettdanser
- danserinne
- danserske
- hallingdanser
- linedanser
- magedanser
- solodanser
- steppedanser