marauder

English

Etymology

maraud +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹɔːdə(ɹ)/

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Noun

marauder (plural marauders)

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

   a band of marauders

2. Any person who or thing which marauds.

Translations

one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder

• Bulgarian: мародер (bg) (maroder)
• 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
• Polish: maruder (pl) m, maruderka f
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m, salteador m
• Russian: мародёр (ru) m (marodjór)
• Spanish: merodeador (es) m
• Swedish: marodör (sv) c
• Welsh: herwr m, herwyr m pl

one who or that which marauds

• Finnish: rosvo (fi)

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French

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

marauder

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of marauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	marauder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maraudant /ma.ʁo.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maraudé /ma.ʁo.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	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	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect2	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	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maraude /ma.ʁod/	—	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Descendants

• → English: maraud
  • ⇒ English: marauder
• → German: marodieren