answer – English noun declension

English noun forms of answer

Noun: answer
Singularanswer
Pluralanswers

Sample Sentences

  • Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
  • When a student types a complex question into a chatbot, they get a polished (though not necessarily authentic, accurate or nuanced) answer in seconds. [2025 December 9, Rachel Konrad and Matt Abrahams, “Why Young People Are Struggling to Communicate”, in TIME:]
  • There is no simple answer to corruption.
  • Violence is not the answer to disagreements.
  • Anti-pornography crusader Mary Whitehouse, who successfully brought London's Gay News to trial recently on charges of "blasphemy," is emerging as England's answer to Anita Bryant. [1977 December 3, “England's Bryant”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 2:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
5. Proto-Germanic *anda-
6. Proto-Indo-European *swer-der.
7. Proto-Germanic *swarō
8. Proto-Germanic *andaswarō
9. Proto-West Germanic *andaswaru
10. Old English andswaru
11. Middle English answere
12. English answer
13. From Middle English answere, andsware, from Old English andswaru (“answer”), from and- (“against”) + swaru (“affirmation”), (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”) and Old English swerian (“to swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer-), suggesting an original meaning of "a sworn statement rebutting a charge". The cognates suggest the existence of Proto-Germanic *andaswarō (“a reply to a question”). Cognate with Old Frisian ondser (“answer”), Old Saxon andswōr (“answer”), Danish and Swedish ansvar (“liability, responsibility, answer”), Icelandic andsvar (“answer, response”). Compare also Old English andwyrde (“answer”) (cognate to Dutch antwoord, German Antwort), Old English andcwiss (“reply”), German Schwur (“oath, vow”). See: Middle English Nouns 'answere', Old English Nouns 'andswaru', Old English Nouns 'swerian', Swedish Nouns 'ansvar', Icelandic Nouns 'andsvar', Old English Nouns 'andwyrde', Dutch Nouns 'antwoord', German Nouns 'Antwort', Old English Nouns 'andcwiss', German Nouns 'Schwur'.

Verbs referencing "answer"

Danish Nouns svar, Danish Nouns ansvar, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns ansvar, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns ansvar, Swedish Nouns ansvar, Russian Nouns свара.