dass

dass

See also: daß, dass., and daſs

English

Etymology

Compare dare, darest, dast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæs/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æs

Verb

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?"

See also

• dassn't
• dast

Anagrams

• ASDS, ASDs, DSAs, SADS, SADs, SDAs, sads

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German

Alternative forms

• 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)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /das/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: das

Conjunction

dass

1. (subordinating) that

   Ich habe gehört, dass du krank bist.

   I was told that you are sick.

2. (subordinating, chiefly colloquial) so that

   Synonym: (standard usage) damit

   Beeil dich, dass wir bald losfahren können.

   Hurry up so that we can take off soon.

Usage notes

• 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]

References

1. Regeln und Wörterverzeichniß für die deutsche Rechtschreibung, zum Gebrauch in den württembergischen Schulanstalten amtlich festgestellt (Stuttgart, Verlag der J. B. Metzlerschen Buchhandlung, 1861), page 12f.
2. Regeln und Wörterverzeichnis für die deutsche Rechtschreibung zum Gebrauch in den sächsischen Schulen. Im Auftrage des Königl. Ministeriums des Kultus und öffentlichen Unterrichts herausgegeben. (Generalverordnung vom 9. Oktober 1880.) (Dresden, Verlag von Alwin Huhle (Carl Adlers Buchhandlung), 1880), page 8f.
3. Regeln und Wörterverzeichnis für die deutsche Rechtschreibung zum Gebrauch in den preußischen Schulen. Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Königlichen Ministeriums der geistlichen, Unterrichts- und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten (Zweiter Neudruck. Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1883; Zweiter Neudruck. Neu durchgesehen. Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1887), page 8f.
4. dass,daß at Google Ngram Viewer

Further reading

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

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Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

dass

1. Alternative form of datt

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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
2. (derogatory) a jerk

   Din dass! ― You jerk!

Synonyms

• (toilet): do, toalett

Derived terms

• utedass

References

• “dass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Synonyms

• (toilet): do, toalett

Derived terms

• utedass

References

• “dass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology 1

Contraction of German das Haus (“the house”)

Noun

dass n

1. (colloquial) a toilet, an outhouse; in particular used about toilets outdoors

   Synonym: (outhouse) utedass

Declension

Declension of dass
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dass	dasset	dass	dassen
Genitive	dass	dassets	dass	dassens

Synonyms

• avträde
• hemlighus

Derived terms

• dassig

Etymology 2

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

Noun

dass c

1. a hyrax, any species in the Hyracoidea order

   Synonym: (more common) hyrax

Declension

Declension of dass
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dass	dassen	dassar	dassarna
Genitive	dass	dassens	dassars	dassarnas

Related terms

• klippdass