dandere

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ダンデレ (dandere), a portmanteau of 黙り (danmari, “keeping completely silent”), emphatic noun form of verb 黙る (damaru, “to be silent”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

Noun

dandere (plural dandere or danderes)

1. (chiefly Japanese fiction) A character archetype who stays silent, not expressing their feelings.
   • 2017, Luca Paolo Bruno, "Grand Narratives Blossom still: Character database and political narratives in the Muv Luv franchise", thesis submitted to Ca' Foscari University of Venice, page 13:

     A tsundere-type character will engender a hostile on the outside but sweet on the inside reaction towards the player, while a dandere will show little to know emotion except for subtle displays of affection.

   • 2019, Samneang Peo, "Visual Development Of A Visual Novel: Visual Storytelling in an Interactive Game", thesis submitted to South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, page 12:

     The kuudere and dandere characters have more reserved personalities, hence those qualities are also reflected in their designs.

   • 2022 March, Christopher B. Patterson, “Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels”, in American Literature, volume 94, number 1:

     Then there is Yuri, the blue oni to Natsuki’s red oni, who is shy, cute, and literary but hides a maddening love for the player; she is the archetypical dandere character thought to emerge from the blue-haired Rei Ayanami of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dandere.

Related terms

• kamidere, kuudere, tsundere, yandere

Anagrams

• DeAndre, Deandre, dearned, dreaden

Danish

Etymology

From French dandiner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɑŋˈdeˀʌ]

Verb

dandere (imperative dander, infinitive at dandere, present tense danderer, past tense danderede, perfect tense danderet)

1. to dander (wander about)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dandere

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	dandere	danderes
Present tense	danderer	danderes
Past tense	danderede	danderedes
Imperative	dander	-
Participle
Present	danderende
Past	danderet
Gerund	danderen

References

• “dandere” in Den Danske Ordbog