manufacturer

English

Etymology

manufacture +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/
• Hyphenation: man‧u‧fac‧tur‧er

Noun

manufacturer (plural manufacturers)

1. A person or company that manufactures.

Translations

a person or company that manufactures

• Afrikaans: fabrikant sg
• Arabic: صَانِع‎ m (ṣāniʕ), مُصَنِّع‎ m (muṣanniʕ)
• Armenian: արտադրող (artadroł)
• Azerbaijani: istehsalçı (az)
• Belarusian: вытво́рца m (vytvórca), племянні́к m (pljemjanník)
• Bulgarian: производи́тел m (proizvodítel), производи́телка f (proizvodítelka)
• Catalan: fabricant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 製作者／制作者 (zh) (zhìzuòzhě), 製造者／制造者 (zh) (zhìzàozhě)

• Czech: výrobce (cs) m, výrobkyně f
• Dutch: fabrikant (nl) m
• Estonian: tootja
• Finnish: valmistaja (fi)
• French: fabricant (fr) m, fabricante (fr) f
• Galician: fabricante (gl) m
• Georgian: მწარმოებელი (mc̣armoebeli)
• German: Hersteller (de) m, Herstellerin (de) f
• Greek: παραγωγός (el) m (paragogós), κατασκευαστής (el) m (kataskevastís)
• Hindi: उत्पादक (hi) m (utpādak)
• Irish: déantóir m
• Italian: produttore (it) m
• Japanese: メーカー (ja) (mēkā), 製造業者 (せいぞうぎょうしゃ, seizōgyōsha), 生産者 (ja) (せいさんしゃ, seisansha)
• Korean: 제조자(製造者) (ko) (jejoja), 제작자(製作者) (ko) (jejakja), 생산자(生産者) (ko) (saengsanja)
• Macedonian: производител m (proizvoditel)
• Malayalam: നിർമ്മാതാവ് (ml) (niṟmmātāvŭ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fabrikant (no) m, produsent (no) m

  Nynorsk: fabrikant m, produsent m

• Polish: fabrykant (pl) m, fabrykantka (pl) f, wytwórca (pl) m, producent (pl) m, producentka f
• Portuguese: fabricante (pt) m
• Romanian: fabricant (ro), producător (ro)
• Russian: производи́тель (ru) m (proizvodítelʹ), производи́тельница (ru) f (proizvodítelʹnica)
• Slovak: výrobca m, výrobkyňa f
• Slovene: proizvajalec m, proizvajalka f, izdelovalec m, izdelovalka f
• Spanish: fabricante (es) m
• Swedish: tillverkare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: виробни́к (uk) m (vyrobnýk), виробни́ця f (vyrobnýcja)

French

Etymology

From manufacture +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

manufacturer

1. (dated) to manufacture

Conjugation

Conjugation of manufacturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	manufacturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	manufacturant /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		manufacturé /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufactures /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacturons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɔ̃/	manufacturez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/	manufacturent /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/
	imperfect	manufacturais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/	manufacturais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/	manufacturait /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/	manufacturions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	manufacturiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁje/	manufacturaient /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	manufacturai /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/	manufacturas /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/	manufactura /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/	manufacturâmes /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁam/	manufacturâtes /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁat/	manufacturèrent /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	manufacturerai /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	manufactureras /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	manufacturera /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	manufacturerons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	manufacturerez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	manufactureront /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	manufacturerais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	manufacturerais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	manufacturerait /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	manufacturerions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	manufactureriez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	manufactureraient /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.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	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufactures /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacturions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	manufacturiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁje/	manufacturent /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	manufacturasse /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/	manufacturasses /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/	manufacturât /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/	manufacturassions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	manufacturassiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa.sje/	manufacturassent /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	—	manufacturons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɔ̃/	manufacturez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “manufacturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.