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

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”).

Noun

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fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

  2. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey
    thoroughfare
  4. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
    Synonym: transportation
    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.”
    • 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.
  10. (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.
  12. (countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
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Terms derived from fare (noun)
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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 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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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. 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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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
    Synonym: risiko
Declension
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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
present farer fares
past for or farede —
infinitive fare fares
imperative far —
participle
present farende
past faret
(auxiliary verb have or være)
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
present farer fares
past farede —
infinitive fare fares
imperative far —
participle
present farende
past faret
(auxiliary verb have)
gerund faren
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Esperanto

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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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Etymology 1

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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.

Etymology 2

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Etymology unknown.

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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.

Etymology 3

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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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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

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      Verb

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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:

      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 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, fàmo5 fàte fànno
      imperfect facévo facévi facéva, féa4 facevàmo facevàte facévano, féano4
      past historic féci, féi4 facésti, fésti4 féce, fé2,4,7, fé2,4, fé'4, féo4 facémmo, fémmo4 facéste, féste4 fécero, fénno4, férono4, féciono4, féro4
      future farò farài farà farémo faréte farànno
      conditional 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, fàmo5 facciàte, fàte5 fàcciano
      imperfect facéssi, féssi4 facéssi, féssi4 facésse, fésse4 facéssimo, féssimo4 facéste, féste4 facéssero, féssero4
      imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
      fài, fà', fà2,6 fàccia facciàmo, fàmo5 fàte fàcciano
      negative imperative non fàre non fàccia non facciàmo, non fàmo5 non fàte non fàcciano

      1Literary, archaic or regional.
      2With syntactic gemination after the verb.
      3Archaic.
      4Archaic or poetic.
      5Rome.
      6Disused.
      7With written accent.

      Classical Roman Dialect:

          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 fò, fòne1, fàccio, fàzzo2 fài, fàci3 fà, fàne1, fào3, fàce3 fàmo, facémo3 fàte, facéte4 fànno, fàco5
      imperfect facévo, fàvo1, facéva3, facìa2 facévi, fàvi1 facéva, fàva1, facìa2 facémio, facévimo1, facévamo3, facìamo2 facévio, facévivo1, facévavo3, facìavo2 facéveno, fàvano1, facìano2
      past historic féci, féce, facéi, facétti, facétte, féi3 facéssi, facìssi, facésti, fecésti3 féce, facé, facéne1, facétte, fé3 facéssimo, fecéstimo3 facéssivo, fecéstivo3 féceno, facérno, facétteno, férno
      future farò, farrò, faròne1, farròne1, farràggio6, farràio3 farài, farrài farà, farrà, faràne1, farràne1, farrao3 farémo, farrémo faréte, farréte farànno, faròrno, farrànno, farràco1
      conditional farébbi, farébbe, farìa, fécera3 faréssi, farìssi, farésti, féceri3 farébbe, farìa, fécera3 faréssimo, farìamo, farràmo3 faréssivo, farìavo, farràte3 farébbeno, farìeno, fécerano3
      subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
      present fàcci, fàccia, fàzza2 fàcci, fàccia, fàzza2 fàcci, fàccia, fàzza2 fàmo, facciàmo, fazzàmo2 fàte, facciàte, fazzàte2 fàccino, fàcciano, fàzzano2
      imperfect facéssi facéssi facésse facéssimo, fecéssimo3 facéssivo, fecéssivo3 facéssino, fecéssino2
      imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
      fà’, fà fàcci, fàccia, fàzza2 fàmo, facciàmo, fazzàmo2 fàte, facéte4 fàccino, fàcciano, fàzzano2
      negative imperative non fàre non fàcci, non fàccia, non fàzza2 non fàmo, non facciàmo, non fazzàmo2 non fàte, non facéte4 non fàccino, non fàcciano, non fàzzano2

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      fare m (plural fari)

      1. manner, way

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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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      Middle English

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      FWOTD – 7 November 2022

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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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          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 / farraggio faciarraje / farraje faciarrà / farrà faciarrimme / farrimme faciarrite / farrite faciarranno / farranno
      conditional faciarría / farría faciarrisse / farrisse farría / faciarría faciarríame / farríame faciarrisseve / farrisseve faciarríano / farríano
      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 / fa' / nun fà face facimme facite / nun 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[3]

      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Etymology 1

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      From Middle Low German vare.

      Noun

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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.

      Verb

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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.

      Noun

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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.

      Verb

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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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      Old English

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      Verb

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      fare

      1. first-person singular present indicative of faran

      Old French

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      Noun

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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.

      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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      fare

      1. to go, travel, get on

      Spanish

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      Verb

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      fare

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

      Tahitian

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      Etymology

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      From Proto-Polynesian *fale.

      Noun

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      fare

      1. A house

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      Tarantino

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      Verb

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      fare

      1. (intransitive) to do, to make

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      This verb needs an inflection-table template.

      Turkish

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فاره (fare), 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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      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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      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.

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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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      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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