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Hi! everyone.Could you tell me whether these two sentences mean the same thing? Does "fare" mean how you carryout things?-How America is supposed to be faring with the Asian countries?-How America is supposed to be behaving towards the Asian countries?And also tell me can we use "happen" in this context? because in the definition of "fare" "to go or to happen" was shown.How did the meeting go?How did the meeting fare?How did the meeting happen with you?Thanks!

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

silak12Could you tell me whether these two sentences mean the same thing? Does "fare" mean how you carryout things?-How America is supposed to be faring with the Asian countries?-How America is supposed to be behaving towards the Asian countries?

No, not the same. How are you faring? = How are you doing? / How is it going?

silak12And also tell me can we use "happen" in this context? because in the definition of "fare" "to go or to happen" was shown.How did the meeting go?How did the meeting fare?How did the meeting happen with you?

The 3rd one is not possible; 'happen' does not work and does not mean 'go' or 'fare'.

NOTE: 'fare' is an old word, not much in use nowadays. You will see 'How are you faring' mostly in old novels.

Avangi · Answer

I think "to fare well" is to do well personally. To "fare poorly" is to do poorly personally.
It can refer to your personal well being, health, finances, projects, etc.

silak12-How America is supposed to be faring with the Asian countries?

silak12-How America is supposed to be behaving towards the Asian countries?

In my opinion, these two sentences do not mean the same thing at all.
If America is faring well with the Asian countries, they are developing relationships which are beneficial to America.

How America is behaving toward the Asian countries would deal with what America is doing to benefit the Asian countries. Or to damage their interests.

I may be wrong.

How did things fare with you?
How did things go with you?

Yes, these questions are asking whether you fared well or poorly.
Yes, it depends on what happened, how things happened, how they "went down."

But I think it's always clear that we're asking from a particular point of view.
Did what happened benefit the person or project involved, or did it make things worse?

Silak12 · Answer

Much obliged.
Thanks to both of you.

Clive · Answer

Could you tell me whether these two sentences mean the same thing? Yes, as edited by me.

Does "fare" mean how you carryout things? 'Fare' means progress, get on. turn out.
eg
Q - How did your team fare in the game?
A - We played well, but we lost.
Note that fare' is not a very common word in everyday English.

Neither of these two questions has the correct question word order.
You need How is America supposed to be . . .

How America is supposed to be faring with the Asian countries?
-How America is supposed to be getting on with the Asian countries?

And also tell me can we use "happen" in this context? because in the definition of "fare" "to go or to happen" was shown.
How did the meeting go? Fine
How did the meeting fare? Not bad
How did the meeting happen with you? No.

Clive

Silak12 · Answer

Thanks! Clive that's a nice additive.
If this sentence-How did things fare with you? possible then Is this sentence possible too-:How did the match fare with you?
Or I don't need to append "with you" as the word "fare" means how the thing being asked about personally affects the person being asked this question?

Mister Micawber · Answer

silak12How did the match fare with you?

I caution you again that you will sound like a 100-year-old sailor with that.

Silak12 · Answer

Thanks for your precious time sir.

Clive · Answer

How did the match fare with you?

It is normally people who 'fare', so more natural is
How did you fare in the match?
But I agree that this sounds extremely old-fashioned.
Say eg How did you get on / do in the match?

Clive

Avangi · Answer

CliveHow did you get on

This one sounds old-fashioned to me. My grandmother used to say it, but I no longer hear it in AmE.
Perhaps it's still popular in BrE. It does now sound British to me.

- A.

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