Comparedare,darest,dast.

• IPA^(key):/dæs/

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• Rhymes:-æs

dass (third-person singular simple presentdasses,present participledassing,simple past and past participledassed)

1. (archaic) Todare.
   • 1890,Kate Douglas Wiggin,Timothy's Quest, page58:

     We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobodydassed, '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 todass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not todass to nock it off

   • 1907, Lawrence Mott,To the credit of the sea, page72:

     "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd neverdassed 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, page41:

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

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

     "If anyonedasses 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 ofdaß; older fraktur spelling in Heyse's spelling)
• dasz(obsolete)
• das(obsolete)
• dat(nonstandard,colloquial,dialectal)

FromMiddle High Germandaȥ, fromOld High Germandaȥ, fromProto-Germanic*þat. CompareDutchdat,Low Germandat,datt,Englishthat.Doublet ofdas. Distinction fromdas is purely orthographical convention.

• IPA^(key):/das/,/dɑs/

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• Rhymes:-as
• Homophone:das

dass

1. (subordinating)that

   Ich habe gehört,dass du krank bist.

   I was toldthat you are sick.

2. (subordinating, chieflycolloquial)so that

   Synonyms:(standard usage)damit,sodass

   Beeil dich,dass wir bald losfahren können.

   Hurry upso that we can take off soon.

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

• “dass” inDuden online
• “dass” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key):/das/,[dɑs]
• Rhymes:-ɑs

dass

1. Alternative form ofdatt

FromGermandasHaus orHäuschen ("The (little) house", euphemistically omitting the main word(out)house).

dass m (definite singulardassen,indefinite pluraldasser,definite pluraldassene)
dass n (definite singulardasset,indefinite pluraldassordasser,definite pluraldassaordassene)

1. (colloquial)toilet,crapper

   Husk å vaskedassen!

   Remember to clean thetoilet!

2. (derogatory) ajerk

   Dindass! ―Youjerk!

• (toilet):do,toalett

• utedass

• “dass” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromGermandasHaus orHäuschen ("The (little) house").

dass m (definite singulardassen,indefinite pluraldassar,definite pluraldassane)
dass n (definite singulardasset,indefinite pluraldass,definite pluraldassa)

1. (colloquial)toilet

• (toilet):do,toalett

• utedass

• “dass” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Contraction ofGermandasHaus(“the house”)

dass n

1. anouthouse

   Synonym:utedass

   gå pådass

   go to theouthouse

2. (colloquial) atoilet (more generally)

• avträde
• hemlighus

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

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

dass c

1. ahyrax, any species in theHyracoidea order

   Synonym:(more common)hyrax

• klippdass

• dass inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• dass inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dass inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)