sparen???

[Fria]

I was told that sparen means both, to scare and to spare, but so far no proof for that in dictionaries
Can you tell me? Dank je wel!

[Quetzal]

I was told that sparen means both, to scare and to spare, but so far no proof for that in dictionaries
Can you tell me? Dank je wel!

Told by an untrustworthy source, apparently. Or you misunderstood them.

"Sparen" does indeed mean to spare in the meaning of "sparing someone's life". In phrases like "Spare me your excuses", you'll use "besparen" instead in Dutch. The other, more frequent, meaning is to save (money).

[Fria]

Oh, yep, it was a misunderstanding, it was so fast, so I attributed wrong meaning to staren and sparen ... solved now!

[andreengels]

Oh, yep, it was a misunderstanding, it was so fast, so I attributed wrong meaning to staren and sparen ... solved now!

Staren is to stare. For "to scare" one would usually use a construction of more than one word in Dutch, "bang maken" being the most common.

[Fria]

Thx, I've met both expressions when researching what went wrong with the original one