babysitter

See also: Babysitter, baby-sitter, and baby sitter

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• baby-sitter
• (rare) baby sitter

EtymologyEdit

From baby +‎ sitter.

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtɚ/

NounEdit

babysitter (plural babysitters)

1. A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.

   My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other moms' children.

Derived termsEdit

• babysitter test

Related termsEdit

• babysit
• house-sitter

TranslationsEdit

baby or child caretaker

• Albanian: dado (sq)
• Arabic: حَاضِنَة‏‎ f (ḥāḍina), مُرَبِّيَة‏‎ f (murabbiya)
• Basque: haurtzain
• Catalan: cangur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no equivalent exists; literally:) 臨時看孩子的人, 临时看孩子的人 (línshí kān háizi de rén)

• Czech: dozor u dítěte
• Danish: babysitter, barnepige (da), aftenvagt
• Dutch: babyoppas, kinderoppas (nl), oppas (nl), wiegewacht
• Esperanto: vartisto, vartistino
• Estonian: lapsehoidja
• Finnish: lapsenkaitsija, lapsenvahti
• French: baby-sitter (fr) f, gardienne d’enfant f, bonne d’enfant f
• German: Babysitter (de) m, Babysitterin f, Kinderhüter m, Kinderhüterin f, Kinderbetreuer m, Kinderbetreuerin f
• Greek: μπέιμπι σίτερ m, f (béimpi síter), φύλακας νηπίων m, f (fýlakas nipíon)
• Hebrew: שְׁמַרְטַף‏‎ (he) m (sh'martáf), שְׁמַרְטַפִית‏‎ f (sh'martafít), בייביסיטר‏‎ m, f (beibisiter)
• Hindi: दाई (hi) (dā'ī)
• Hungarian: bébiszitter (hu), pótmama
• Icelandic: barnapía
• Indonesian: pramusiwi (id)
• Irish: feighlí páistí m
• Italian: baby-sitter (it)
• Japanese: ベビーシッター (bebīsittā), 子守 (こもり, komori)
• Khmer: អ្នកមើលក្មេង (neak merl khmeng)

• Korean: 베이비시터 (ko) (beibisiteo)
• Latvian: aukle
• Lithuanian: ateinanti auklė, vaikų prižiūrėtoja
• Macedonian: дадилка (mk) f (dadilka)
• Maltese: bejbisiter
• Norman: gardeux d'êfants m, gardeuse d'êfants f
• Norwegian: barnevakt, kenguru (no)
• Portuguese: babá (pt) m
• Romanian: babysitter (ro) m, f, bonă (ro) f, doică (ro) f
• Russian: приходя́щая ня́ня f (prixodjáščaja njánja), ня́ня (ru) f (njánja), бэбиси́ттер m, f (bɛbisítter), бебиси́ттер (ru) m, f (bebisítter)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дадиља f

  Roman: dadilja (sh) f

• Slovak: opatrovnica, dozor u dieťaťa
• Spanish: niñera (es) f, canguro (es) m (Spain), china (es) f (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)
• Swahili: mlezi wa muda, mlei, yaya (sw)
• Swedish: barnvakt (sv) c
• Tagalog: yáya, tagá-alagà ng batà
• Telugu: ఆయా (te) (āyā)
• Turkish: çocuk bakıcısı
• Vietnamese: người giữ trẻ
• Volapük: (♂♀) cilikälädan, (♂) cilihikälädan, (♀) cilijikälädan
• Welsh: gwarchodwr banbanod

See alsoEdit

• nanny
• nurse

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English babysitter.

NounEdit

babysitter c (singular definite babysitteren, plural indefinite babysittere)

1. A babysitter.

InflectionEdit

Declension of babysitter

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	babysitter	babysitteren	babysittere	babysitterne
genitive	babysitters	babysitterens	babysitteres	babysitternes

Alternative formsEdit

• baby-sitter

VerbEdit

babysitter

1. present tense of babysitte

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

babysitter

1. A babysitter.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of babysitter (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		babysitter	babysitterit
genitive		babysitterin	babysitterien babysittereiden babysittereitten
partitive		babysitteriä	babysittereitä babysitterejä
illative		babysitteriin	babysittereihin
		singular	plural
nominative		babysitter	babysitterit
accusative	nom.	babysitter	babysitterit
	gen.	babysitterin
genitive		babysitterin	babysitterien babysittereiden babysittereitten
partitive		babysitteriä	babysittereitä babysitterejä
inessive		babysitterissä	babysittereissä
elative		babysitteristä	babysittereistä
illative		babysitteriin	babysittereihin
adessive		babysitterillä	babysittereillä
ablative		babysitteriltä	babysittereiltä
allative		babysitterille	babysittereille
essive		babysitterinä	babysittereinä
translative		babysitteriksi	babysittereiksi
instructive		—	babysitterein
abessive		babysitterittä	babysittereittä
comitative		—	babysittereineen

SynonymsEdit

• lapsenvahti

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

babysitter m, f (invariable)

1. A babysitter.

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English babysitter.

NounEdit

babysitter m (plural babysitteri)

1. babysitter

DeclensionEdit

declension of babysitter

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) babysitter	babysitterul	(niște) babysitteri	babysitterii
genitive/dative	(unui) babysitter	babysitterului	(unor) babysitteri	babysitterilor
vocative	babysitterule		babysitterilor

See alsoEdit

• bonă
• dădacă
• doică
• guvernantă

ReferencesEdit

• babysitter in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2017