marauder

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

maraud +‎ -er.

NounEdit

marauder (plural marauders)

1. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.

   a band of marauders

2. By extension anything which marauds.

TranslationsEdit

one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder

• Catalan: basquejador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掠奪者 (zh), 掠夺者 (zh) (lüèduózhě)

• Czech: nájezdník (cs) m
• Dutch: stroper (nl) m
• Finnish: rosvo (fi), ryöstelijä
• French: maraudeur (fr) m
• German: Marodeur (de) m
• Italian: predone (it) m

• Japanese: 略奪者 (りゃくだつしゃ, ryakudatsusha)
• Latvian: marodieris m
• Neapolitan: mariuolo
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m, salteador m
• Russian: мародёр (ru) m (marodjór)
• Spanish: merodeador m
• Swedish: marodör (sv) c
• Welsh: herwr m, herwyr m pl

band of outlaws who raid and pillage

• Dutch: roversbende (nl) m, f
• Hungarian: martalóc
• Maori: marau

• Portuguese: salteador m
• Welsh: herwr m, herwyr m pl

by extension anything which marauds

• Finnish: rosvo (fi)

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From maraud +‎ -er, from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”).

VerbEdit

marauder

1. (intransitive) to pilfer
2. (intransitive) to prowl

ConjugationEdit

  Conjugation of marauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		marauder			avoir maraudé
gerund		en maraudant			en ayant maraudé
present participle		maraudant /ma.ʁo.dɑ̃/
past participle		maraudé /ma.ʁo.de/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect	maraudais /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudais /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudait /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudaient /ma.ʁo.dɛ/
	past historic1	maraudai /ma.ʁo.de/	maraudas /ma.ʁo.da/	marauda /ma.ʁo.da/	maraudâmes /ma.ʁo.dam/	maraudâtes /ma.ʁo.dat/	maraudèrent /ma.ʁo.dɛʁ/
	future	marauderai /ma.ʁo.dʁe/	marauderas /ma.ʁo.dʁa/	maraudera /ma.ʁo.dʁa/	marauderons /ma.ʁo.dʁɔ̃/	marauderez /ma.ʁo.dʁe/	marauderont /ma.ʁo.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	marauderais /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderais /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderait /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderions /ma.ʁo.də.ʁjɔ̃/	marauderiez /ma.ʁo.də.ʁje/	marauderaient /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior2	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect3	maraudasse /ma.ʁo.das/	maraudasses /ma.ʁo.das/	maraudât /ma.ʁo.da/	maraudassions /ma.ʁo.da.sjɔ̃/	maraudassiez /ma.ʁo.da.sje/	maraudassent /ma.ʁo.das/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect4	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
present		—	maraude /ma.ʁod/	—	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	—
past		—	Use the present imperative tense of avoir followed by the past participle5	—	Use the present imperative tense of avoir followed by the past participle5	Use the present imperative tense of avoir followed by the past participle5	—
1 This tense may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect tense in less formal writing or speech ([1]).
2 This tense may be found to have been replaced with the indicative pluperfect tense in less formal writing or speech ([2]).
3 This tense may be found to have been replaced with the present subjunctive tense in less formal writing or speech ([3]).
4 This tense may be found to have been replaced with the past subjunctive tense in less formal writing or speech ([4]).
5 Trudie Maria Booth (2005), French Verbs and Idioms, p. 88.

Further readingEdit

• “marauder” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

DescendantsEdit

• → English: marauder