donner

See also: Donner

English

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans donder (“thrash”), from Dutch donder (“thunder”). Doublet of thunder.

Verb

donner (third-person singular simple present donners, present participle donnering, simple past and past participle donnered)

1. (South Africa, slang) To beat up; clobber; thrash.
   • 1962, Jeremy Taylor (lyrics and music), “Ag Pleez Deddy”:

     Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee / When he fights Willie Liebenberg / There's gonna be a murder / 'Cos Willie's gonna donner that blerrie yankee

   • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 167:

     They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.

References

• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
• A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Etymology 2

From don +‎ -er.

Noun

donner (plural donners)

1. One who dons (something).
   • 1861 June 29, “Old Rome in Crystal”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. […], volume V, number 114, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], page 324, column 2:

     O sweet little wearers of round hats. O dainty donners of Mauve silks and sprigged muslins—I hear a voice saying—there was a time when all the ladies of Rome, with perfumes and fans, went daily to the Colosseum to see gigantic slaves chop each other to pieces; […]

   • 1871, Robert [Williams] Buchanan, The Land of Lorne, Including the Cruise of the “Tern” to the Outer Hebrides. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 186:

     “Gathered in circle, / With clangour of armour, / Our youth struck the mighty / Donners of armlets: / Limbs dead and bloody / Glutted the death-birds. / Who shall avenge now / The mighty belt-wearer?”

   • 1918 August 31, “[The Concert & Opera Field] Singer in the Ranks”, in The Billboard, volume XXX, number 35, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, page 20, column 3:

     Tony Rossitto, grand opera tenor, who is in the ranks at Camp Sherman, is spending the week here and has been permitted to sing at the barracks and Broadway Theater. He is beiing^[sic] billed about the town as “The Soldier Caruso From Camp Sherman” and “The Fighter With the Golden Throat.” Mr. Rossitto was formerly a member of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His beautiful tenor has won many friends for him both among his fellow donners of khaki and those civilians who have heard him.

   • 1919 July 3, “Seven Recruits Join Army on Wednesday”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LII, number 18, Atlanta, Ga., page twenty:

     Seven recruits were accepted by the United States army at the Transportation building Wednesday. Of the seven new donners of the khaki, six were old service men.

   • 1922, Yogiraja’s Disciple Maitreya (Buddha-Gaya), Discovery of the Universal Religion through a Comparative Theology Based on the Faiths of the Forefathers, London: W. Thacker & Co; Calcutta; Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 59:

     “Happy are only the donners of the waist-cloth whose minds always delight in meditating on the texts of the Upanishads.”

   • 1932 March, Philip Wylie, “Angela regrets an Invitation: A story of the Wild Wallaces”, in Edwin Balmer, editor, Redbook Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The McCall Company, page 73, column 1:

     Early donners of dinner-jackets, décolleté, and toppers were about Park Avenue.

   • 1937, “Angel Factory”, in The Dart: The Annual Publication of the Dickinson Seminary and Junior College at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, volume 15, Williamsport, Pa.: The Williamsport Printing and Binding Company:

     Way and Brinton, football player and student respectively, donners of African costumes, and ministers in the making were real friends, and examples of demeanor.

   • 1945, The Purgold, volume XVII, Dubuque, Ia.: Loras College, page one hundred nine:

     The season 1944-45 saw the donners of the purple and gold of Loras take seven out of eight conference games . . .

   • 1954 November, D. A. Jourdan, “Change of Color”, in Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, editor, Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 3, number 3, Holyoke, Mass.: Columbia Publications, Inc., page 42, column 1:

     For the first few weeks the rush of voluntary donners of white were mostly in the Fourth Region of the North American Continent.

   • 1957, “[Election Manifestos] Communist Party of India”, in S. L. Poplai, editor, National Politics and 1957 Elections in India, Delhi: Metropolitan Book Co. Private Ltd., page 106:

     Honest and veteran Congressmen who have grown grey in the service of the country very often find themselves pushed aside by these new donners of the white cap.

   • 1962, The Maldonian, Malden, Mass.: Malden High School, page 172:

     A donner of casual clothes, this fun loving gal enjoys swimming, skating, and dancing.

   • 2001, Curt Gathje, editor, 2002 New York City Nightlife, New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, LLC, →ISBN, page 176:

     “Donners of black” float by this “very cool” Lower East Side bar for its “hip” vibe and “awesome DJ”; […]

   • 2001, Moses Ashear, translated by Joshua Levisohn, “Listening Guide 59: Mifalot Elohim (‘The Works of God’; pizmon)”, in Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 235:

     Rock of the world, raise the lofty house of Aaron, the donners of the Urim and Thumin [breastplate worn by the high priest of the biblical temple], they serve you in holiness.

   • 2011, Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 362:

     COAL TRAIN: Marching band wieners. Tuba lards. Flautists. Triangle dingers. Auto-harp toters. Sniffers of fuzzy-tipped drumsticks, owners of spit-caked clarinets, and donners of fringy polyester uniforms.

Anagrams

• Norden, Rendon, nonred

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French donner, from Old French doner, from Latin dōnāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ne/

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Verb

donner

1. to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else
2. to donate
3. (intransitive) to come across
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Finalement, ayant perdu l’esprit sans ressource, il vint à donner dans la plus étrange pensée dont jamais fou se fût avisé dans le monde.

     Finally, having lost his mind completely, he happened to come across the strangest thought in the world, of which no madman had ever conceived before.

Conjugation

Conjugation of donner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	donner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	donnant /dɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		donné /dɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	donne /dɔn/	donnes /dɔn/	donne /dɔn/	donnons /dɔ.nɔ̃/	donnez /dɔ.ne/	donnent /dɔn/
	imperfect	donnais /dɔ.nɛ/	donnais /dɔ.nɛ/	donnait /dɔ.nɛ/	donnions /dɔ.njɔ̃/	donniez /dɔ.nje/	donnaient /dɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	donnai /dɔ.ne/	donnas /dɔ.na/	donna /dɔ.na/	donnâmes /dɔ.nam/	donnâtes /dɔ.nat/	donnèrent /dɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	donnerai /dɔn.ʁe/	donneras /dɔn.ʁa/	donnera /dɔn.ʁa/	donnerons /dɔn.ʁɔ̃/	donnerez /dɔn.ʁe/	donneront /dɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	donnerais /dɔn.ʁɛ/	donnerais /dɔn.ʁɛ/	donnerait /dɔn.ʁɛ/	donnerions /dɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	donneriez /dɔ.nə.ʁje/	donneraient /dɔn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	donne /dɔn/	donnes /dɔn/	donne /dɔn/	donnions /dɔ.njɔ̃/	donniez /dɔ.nje/	donnent /dɔn/
	imperfect2	donnasse /dɔ.nas/	donnasses /dɔ.nas/	donnât /dɔ.na/	donnassions /dɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	donnassiez /dɔ.na.sje/	donnassent /dɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	donne /dɔn/	—	donnons /dɔ.nɔ̃/	donnez /dɔ.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• à cheval donné on ne regarde pas la bride
• à cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents
• donnant donnant
• donner accès
• donner corps
• donner c’est donner, reprendre c’est voler
• donner de la confiture à des cochons
• donner de sa personne
• donner des ailes
• donner du mou
• donner en mariage
• donner en pâture
• donner et retenir ne vaut
• donner la parole
• donner la réplique
• donner le bon Dieu sans confession
• donner le change
• donner le jour
• donner le la
• donner le mot
• donner le sein
• donner le ton
• donner lecture
• donner libre cours
• donner lieu
• donner l’assaut
• donner l’exemple
• donner naissance
• donner raison
• donner sa langue au chat
• donner sa parole
• donner suite
• donner sur
• donner tort
• donner un coup de balai
• donner un coup de pied dans la fourmilière
• donner une leçon
• étant donné
• le donner en mille
• ne pas donner cher de la peau de
• ne pas donner signe de vie
• ne plus savoir où donner de la tête
• se donner des airs
• se donner du mal
• se donner en spectacle
• se donner la mort
• s’en donner à cœur joie

 

Related terms

• don
• donatif
• donation

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: dona

Further reading

• “donner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

donner

1. inflection of donnern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre.

Verb

donner

1. to give

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of donner

infinitive	simple	donner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	donnant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		donné
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	donne	donnes	donne	donnons	donnez	donnent
	imperfect	donnois, donnoys	donnois, donnoys	donnoit, donnoyt	donnions, donnyons	donniez, donnyez	donnoient, donnoyent
	past historic	donna	donnas	donna	donnasmes	donnastes	donnerent
	future	donnerai, donneray	donneras	donnera	donnerons	donnerez	donneront
	conditional	donnerois, donneroys	donnerois, donneroys	donneroit, donneroyt	donnerions, donneryons	donneriez, donneryez	donneroient, donneroyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	donne	donnes	donne	donnons	donnez	donnent
	imperfect	donnasse	donnasses	donnast	donnassions	donnassiez	donnassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	donne	—	donnons	donnez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

Descendants

• French: donner
  • → Romanian: dona
• → Dutch: doneren

Norman

Alternative forms

• dounnaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre (“give a present; bestow, grant”), from dōnum (“gift, present”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

  (file)

Verb

donner

1. (Jersey) to give
2. (Jersey, card games) to deal

Synonyms

• bailli

Antonyms

• prendre (“to take”)

Derived terms

• donner du fouet (“to lash”)
• donner la tchêne (“to cane”)
• donner un clyîn (“to give a wink”)
• donner un pâssage (“to give a lift”)

 

Picard

Etymology

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnāre, present active infinitive of dōnō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̃.ne/

Verb

donner

1. to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.
2. to donate

   Il o donnè à l’tchète à chl'église.

   He donated at the church

Conjugation

    Conjugation in Picard

infinitive			donner
gerund			donnint
auxiliary			avoèr
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		donnè		donnèe
		plural		donnès		donnèes
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ej (j')	tu (t')	i (il)/ale	(n)os	os	is
	present	donne	donnes	donne	donnons	donnez	donntte
	imperfect	donnoé	donnoés	donnoét	donnoinmes	donnoètes	donnoètte
	future	dorai doro	doros	doro	dorons	dorez	doront
	conditional	doroé	doroés	doroét	doroinmes	doroètes	doroètte
subjunctive		qu'ej (j')	qu'tu (t')	qu'i (il)/ale	qu'(n)os	qu'os	qu'is
	present	donne	donne	donne	donnonche	donnèche	donntte
imperative		—	tu	—	(n)os	os	—
	affirmative		erchoé		donnons	donnez

Related terms

• don
• foaire don de

Scots

Verb

donner (third-person singular simple present donners, present participle donnerin, simple past donnert, past participle donnert)

1. to stun, shock, stupefy
   • 1879, Mrs. Finlay Cameron, The Auld Hoose: Glimpses of Scottish Life, The Edinburgh Publishing Company (1879), page 69:

     "Doited or no doited, it's a fact thae hae queer daein's aboot thae toons. I haena seen mony o' them; but as for Glasgow, it quite donnered me; and Edinburgh wasna muckle better. […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• The Online Scots Dictionary