harder

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hädʹə, IPA^(key): /hɑːdə/
• (General American) enPR: härdʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdɚ/, [ˈhɑɹɾɚ]
• Hyphenation: hard‧er
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Etymology 1

hard +‎ -er

Adjective

harder

1. comparative form of hard: more hard

   He is more likely to succeed because he tries harder.

   Steel is harder than copper so we use steel tools to cut copper pipes.

   • 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:

     For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.

Derived terms

• harder working

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans haarder (“mullet”).

Noun

harder (plural harders)

1. Alternative spelling of haarder

Anagrams

• Harred, Herard

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑr.dər/

• harder

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• Hyphenation: har‧der
• Rhymes: -ɑrdər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch harder. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

harder m (plural harders)

1. A mullet, fish of the family Mugilidae.
2. A flathead mullet, flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: harder
• → Papiamentu: aldu, haldu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

harder

1. comparative degree of hard

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

harder

1. to harness together (hunting dogs etc)

Conjugation

Conjugation of harder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	harder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hardant /aʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hardé /aʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	harde /aʁd/	hardes /aʁd/	harde /aʁd/	hardons /aʁ.dɔ̃/	hardez /aʁ.de/	hardent /aʁd/
	imperfect	hardais /aʁ.dɛ/	hardais /aʁ.dɛ/	hardait /aʁ.dɛ/	hardions /aʁ.djɔ̃/	hardiez /aʁ.dje/	hardaient /aʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	hardai /aʁ.de/	hardas /aʁ.da/	harda /aʁ.da/	hardâmes /aʁ.dam/	hardâtes /aʁ.dat/	hardèrent /aʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	harderai /aʁ.də.ʁe/	harderas /aʁ.də.ʁa/	hardera /aʁ.də.ʁa/	harderons /aʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	harderez /aʁ.də.ʁe/	harderont /aʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	harderais /aʁ.də.ʁɛ/	harderais /aʁ.də.ʁɛ/	harderait /aʁ.də.ʁɛ/	harderions /aʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	harderiez /aʁ.də.ʁje/	harderaient /aʁ.də.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	harde /aʁd/	hardes /aʁd/	harde /aʁd/	hardions /aʁ.djɔ̃/	hardiez /aʁ.dje/	hardent /aʁd/
	imperfect2	hardasse /aʁ.das/	hardasses /aʁ.das/	hardât /aʁ.da/	hardassions /aʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	hardassiez /aʁ.da.sje/	hardassent /aʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	harde /aʁd/	—	hardons /aʁ.dɔ̃/	hardez /aʁ.de/	—
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).