reporter
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpoətə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun edit
reporter (plural reporters)
- Someone or something that reports.
- The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
- A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
- A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
- (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
- (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)
- reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)
- Synonym: repòrter
- informant, accuser, denouncer
Adjective edit
reporter (feminine reportera, masculine plural reporters, feminine plural reporteres)
Further reading edit
- “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reporter”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter
Noun edit
reporter
- someone or something that reports
- a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television
Danish edit
Noun edit
reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)
- (journalism) a reporter, a journalist
Inflection edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | reporter | reporteren | reportere | reporterne |
genitive | reporters | reporterens | reporteres | reporternes |
Verb edit
reporter
- imperativ of reportere
Related terms edit
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
reporter
- (literally) to carry something back to where it was
- (literally) to wear again
- to transfer (an emotion)
- reporter son amour sur quelqu’un ― to transfer one's love to somebody
- to put back; to put off; to postpone
- Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.
- After having been postponed numerous times, the exams finally took place.
- 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 113:
- Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d’attendre la fin de l’enquête sur le violeur pour s’amuser.
- Graham had put back the party, suggesting to wait until the investigation about the rapist was over to have fun.
- (usually impersonal) to carry or take back in time
- Il faut se reporter au mois dernier pour comprendre.
- We have to go back in time a month to understand.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to refer; to check
- Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4.
- To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.
- (mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward
- Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3!
- That idiot forgot to carry over a 3!
Conjugation edit
infinitive | simple | reporter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | reportant /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | reporté /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportes /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
reportez /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ |
reportent /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
imperfect | reportais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
reportais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
reportait /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
reportions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
reportiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/ |
reportaient /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | reportai /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ |
reportas /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ |
reporta /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ |
reportâmes /ʁə.pɔʁ.tam/ |
reportâtes /ʁə.pɔʁ.tat/ |
reportèrent /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | reporterai /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
reporteras /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
reportera /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
reporterons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
reporterez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
reporteront /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | reporterais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
reporterais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
reporterait /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
reporterions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reporteriez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
reporteraient /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.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 | reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportes /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
reportiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/ |
reportent /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
imperfect2 | reportasse /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ |
reportasses /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ |
reportât /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ |
reportassions /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
reportassiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
reportassent /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
— | reportons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
reportez /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English reporter.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)
- a news reporter; a journalist
Usage notes edit
- The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reporter m or f by sense (invariable)
- reporter (journalist)
References edit
- ^ reporter in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin edit
Verb edit
reporter
Maltese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reporter m (plural reporters)
Related terms edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun edit
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun edit
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
reporter
- to bring back
- to gain; to get (take possession of)
- Judas reportat le argent dount Deux estoyt vendu
- Judas got the money of which God was sold
Conjugation edit
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | reporter | avoir reporté | |||||
gerund | en reportant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | reportant | ||||||
past participle | reporté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | report | reportes | reporte | reportons | reportez | reportent |
imperfect | reportoie, reporteie, reportoe, reporteve | reportoies, reporteies, reportoes, reporteves | reportoit, reporteit, reportot, reporteve | reportiiens, reportiens | reportiiez, reportiez | reportoient, reporteient, reportoent, reportevent | |
preterite | reportai | reportas | reporta | reportames | reportastes | reporterent | |
future | reporterai | reporteras | reportera | reporterons | reporteroiz, reportereiz, reporterez | reporteront | |
conditional | reporteroie, reportereie | reporteroies, reportereies | reporteroit, reportereit | reporteriiens, reporteriens | reporteriiez, reporteriez | reporteroient, reportereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | report | reporz | report | reportons | reportez | reportent |
imperfect | reportasse | reportasses | reportast | reportissons, reportissiens | reportissoiz, reportissez, reportissiez | reportassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | reporte | — | reportons | reportez | — |
References edit
- ^ Etymology and history of “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism; compare German Reporter, Russian репортёр (reportjór), Spanish reportero, ultimately from English reporter.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reporter m pers (female equivalent reporterka, augmentative reporterzyna, related adjective reporterski)
- (journalism) reporter (journalist who investigates, edits, and reports news stories for newspapers, radio, and television)
- Hypernym: dziennikarz
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | reporter | reporterzy/reportery (deprecative) |
genitive | reportera | reporterów |
dative | reporterowi | reporterom |
accusative | reportera | reporterów |
instrumental | reporterem | reporterami |
locative | reporterze | reporterach |
vocative | reporterze | reporterzy |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French reporter.
Noun edit
reporter m (plural reporteri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) reporter | reporterul | (niște) reporteri | reporterii |
genitive/dative | (unui) reporter | reporterului | (unor) reporteri | reporterilor |
vocative | reporterule | reporterilor |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English reporter.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)
- reporter (journalist who investigates)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | repòrtēr | reporteri |
genitive | reportéra | reportera |
dative | reporteru | reporterima |
accusative | reportera | reportere |
vocative | reporteru | reporteri |
locative | reporteru | reporterima |
instrumental | reporterom | reporterima |
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.
Noun edit
reporter c
Declension edit
Declension of reporter | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | reporter | reportern | reportrar | reportrarna |
Genitive | reporters | reporterns | reportrars | reportrarnas |