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English

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle English fare, from a 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”).

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    fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

    1. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey
    2. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
      Synonym: transportation
      train fare
      bus fare
      taxi fare
    3. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
    4. (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.”
      • 1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 452:
        Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey.
    5. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
      The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
      Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.
    6. (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”).

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      fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past and past participle fared) (intransitive)

      1. Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
        1. To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).
          Synonyms: do, get along, manage, cope
          She fared badly in the accident.
          Did you fare well in the exam?
          • 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.
        2. To proceed or progress (in a certain way).
          Synonyms: do, act, behave, measure up, stack up
          We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
          • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎[1]:
            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.
        3. (impersonal) To happen or occur (in a certain way).
          Synonyms: go, turn out, work out, develop, unfold
          We shall see how it fares with him.
      2. (archaic) To go; to 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], “Canto XXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, 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.
      3. (archaic) To eat; to dine.
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      Albanian

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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. barely, scarcely, not in the least
      3. kind
        Ç'farë? ~ Ç'fare? ― What kind? (~ What? How?)
      4. (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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      • 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
        Synonym: risiko
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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
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      Etymology 2

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

      Verb

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      fare (imperative far, present farer, past for or fór, past participle n faret, c faren, pl farne)

      1. to rush, run
        Synonym: drøne
      2. (dated) to fare, travel
        Synonym: rejse
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      Conjugation of fare
      active passive
      infinitive fare fares
      present farer fares
      past for or farede —
      imperative far —
      participle
      present farende
      past (have / havde / er / var) faret
      gerund faren
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      Etymology 3

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      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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      Conjugation of fare
      active passive
      infinitive fare fares
      present farer fares
      past farede —
      imperative far —
      participle
      present farende
      past (have / havde) faret
      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.

      French

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      From Old French fare.

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      fare f (plural fares)

      1. A tradition of going fishing as part of celebrating the fishing festival, typically held around May, banned in 1679 to conserve freshwater fish populations.

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      fare m (plural fares)

      1. Of a saltworks, a reservoir around the perimeter, forming the compartment of a series of heating pools.

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        Borrowed from Tahitian fare.

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        fare m (plural fares)

        1. (French Polynesia) A traditional Polynesian house.

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        • "fare", in Dictionnaire Godefroy

        Italian

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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 da 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. (transitive) to tell or indicate (the time)
            la sveglia fa le sette ― the alarm clock says it's seven o'clock
          22. (transitive) to do until (a time, typically at night)
            fare le dieci all'università
            to attend the university until ten o'clock
          23. (transitive) to caricature
            un dipintore che può fare tanti personaggi famosi ― a painter who can caricature many famous characters
          24. (transitive) to spend; to pass (of time)
            fare la notte a casa tua ― to spend the night at your house
          25. (transitive) to live or lead (a kind of life)
            fare una vita comoda ― to live a comfortable life
          26. (transitive) to pronounce, judge, or evaluate
            lo facevo morto ― I pronounced him dead
          27. (transitive) (with che + subj.) to suppose or consider
            fa' che lei potesse stare ― suppose she could stay
          28. (transitive) to gather
            fare legna ― to gather firewood
            1. (transitive) to stock up on
              fare viveri ― to stock up on supplies
          29. (transitive) to work as (a profession)
            faccio il maestro ― I work as a teacher
          30. (transitive) to elect or nominate
          31. (transitive, sports, card games) to score
            fare un gol ― to score a goal
          32. (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
          33. (transitive) (with inf.) to let
          34. (transitive) (with [di + inf.] or [che + subj.]) to strive or endeavor
          35. (intransitive) to be suitable [with per ‘for’] [auxiliary avere]
            questo lavoro non fa per me
            this work is not (suitable) for me
          36. (intransitive) to play [with a] [auxiliary avere]
            fare a nascondino ― to play hide and seek
          37. (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
          38. (intransitive, impersonal) to be (hot, cold, etc.) [auxiliary avere] (of the weather, climate, etc.)
            fa freddo ― it's cold
          39. (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?"
          40. (intransitive) to go (to say something or make a sound) [auxiliary avere]
          41. (intransitive) to go (to be expressed or composed) [auxiliary avere]
          42. (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”)
          43. (intransitive, with come (“how”)) to be able to [with a (+ infinitive); or with per (+ infinitive)] [auxiliary avere]
          44. (intransitive, rare) to take root [auxiliary avere] (of a plant)
          45. (intransitive, rare) to suffice [auxiliary avere] (of a plant)

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          The second person imperative has univerbated compound forms:

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          Including lesser-used forms:

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          fare m (plural fari)

          1. manner, way

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          Latin

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          fāre

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

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          fāre

          1. (Late Latin) present active infinitive of faciō

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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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            fare

            1. alternative form of faren

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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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            • 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[2]

            Norwegian Bokmål

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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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            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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            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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            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

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            fare oblique singular, f (oblique plural fares, nominative singular fare, nominative plural fares)

            1. (Normandy) Celebratory fishing done as part of the fishing festival, typically held in May during Easter.
            2. The fishing festival.

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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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            fare

            1. to go, travel, get on

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            fare

            1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of far

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            Etymology

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            From Proto-Polynesian *fale.

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            fare

            1. A house

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            Tarantino

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            fare

            1. (intransitive) to do, to make

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            Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فاره (fare), from Arabic فَأْرَة (faʔra). Displaced Turkish sıçan. 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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            Declension of fare
            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

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

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            Etymology

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            From Middle English fearen, from Old English fǣran.

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            fare (simple past vear'd)

            1. to frighten
              • 1867, “GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY“, page 39:
                Dinna fare a caulès.
                Don't frighten the horses.
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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