dass

Compare dare, darest, dast.

• IPA^(key): /dæs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

dass (third-person singular simple present dasses, present participle dassing, simple past and past participle dassed)

1. (archaic) To dare.
   • 1890, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest, page 58:

     We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face.

   • 1904, Henry A. Shute, Sequil Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, page 8:

     Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off

   • 1907, Lawrence Mott, To the credit of the sea, page 72:

     "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law. I hain't got much money, Mr. Burberry, an' there's the missils an' kiddies to house an' dress an' feed.

   • 1907, Mabel Osgood Wright, Gray lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, page 41:

     You weren't smart to refuse; you could have had a peep inside the General's house, maybe, and I don't believe she'd dassed said a word about birds on hats, with one of the company wearing 'em!

   • 1933, Sammy Lerner, theme from, Popeye the Sailor::

     "If anyone dasses to risk my fist, it's Boff! and it's Wham! Understand?"

• dassn't
• dast

• DSAs, SDAs, ASDs, SADs, assd., SDAS, ASDS, sads, SSAD, SADS

• daß (older spelling)
• daſs (older antiqua spelling used instead of daß; older fraktur spelling in Heyse's spelling)
• dasz (obsolete)
• das (obsolete)
• dat (nonstandard, colloquial, dialectal)

From Old High German daz, from Proto-Germanic *þat. Compare Dutch dat, English that. Distinction from das is purely orthographical convention.

• IPA^(key): /das/

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• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: das

dass

1. (subordinating) that

   Ich habe gehört, dass du krank bist.

   I was told that you are sick.

2. (subordinating, chiefly colloquial) so that

   Synonyms: (standard usage) damit, sodass

   Beeil dich, dass wir bald losfahren können.

   Hurry up so that we can take off soon.

• The acceptability and use of dass and daß has varied over the centuries. Daß was more common until at least 1871. Dass was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference. (In Württemberg, Saxony and Prussia, dass had been deprecated earlier in the 19th century.)^[1][2][3] Daß was more common from 1902 until it was deprecated and dass was revived by the 1996 Rechtschreibreform.^[4]

• “dass” in Duden online
• “dass” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /das/, [dɑs]
• Rhymes: -ɑs

dass

1. Alternative form of datt

From German das Haus or Häuschen ("The (little) house", euphemistically omitting the main word (out)house).

dass m (definite singular dassen, indefinite plural dasser, definite plural dassene)
dass n (definite singular dasset, indefinite plural dass or dasser, definite plural dassa or dassene)

1. (colloquial) toilet, crapper

   Husk å vaske dassen!

   Remember to clean the toilet!

2. (derogatory) a jerk

   Din dass! ― You jerk!

• (toilet): do, toalett

• utedass

• “dass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German das Haus or Häuschen ("The (little) house").

dass m (definite singular dassen, indefinite plural dassar, definite plural dassane)
dass n (definite singular dasset, indefinite plural dass, definite plural dassa)

1. (colloquial) toilet

• (toilet): do, toalett

• utedass

• “dass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

 

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Contraction of German das Haus (“the house”)

dass n

1. an outhouse

   Synonym: utedass

   gå på dass

   go to the outhouse

2. (colloquial) a toilet (more generally)

• avträde
• hemlighus

• dasspapper (“toilet paper”) (colloquial)
• dassig

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dass c

1. a hyrax, any species in the Hyracoidea order

   Synonym: (more common) hyrax

• klippdass

• dass in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dass in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)