examiner

English

Etymology

examine +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

examiner (plural examiners)

1. A person who investigates someone or something.
   • 1951 November, “Delays to Boat Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 719:

     Younger [Customs] examiners, who, perhaps, have not yet acquired the intuition resulting from years of experience, seem partly responsible for the closer examination of incoming luggage. Not only is this closer scrutiny arousing feelings of resentment among passengers, but it is causing serious delays in the departure of boat trains, many of which have been reaching their destinations two or three hours late.

2. A person who sets an examination.
3. A person who marks an examination.

Derived terms

• driving examiner
• medical examiner

 

Related terms

• cross-examiner

Translations

person who investigates someone or something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檢查員／检查员 (zh) (jiǎncháyuán), 調查員／调查员 (zh) (diàocháyuán)

• Czech: zkoušející m
• Danish: undersøger c, sagsbehandler c
• Finnish: tutkija (fi)
• French: examinateur (fr) m, examinatrice (fr) f
• German: Prüfer (de) m
• Greek: εξεταστής (el) m (exetastís), εξετάστρια (el) f (exetástria)
• Italian: esaminatore (it) m
• Latin: inquīsītor m, scrūtātor m
• Russian: инспе́ктор (ru) m (inspéktor), ревизо́р (ru) m (revizór), иссле́дователь (ru) m (isslédovatelʹ)
• Spanish: examinador (es) m
• Swahili: mtahini (sw)
• Telugu: పరీక్షకుడు (te) (parīkṣakuḍu)

person who marks an examination

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 考官 (haau² gun¹)

  Mandarin: 考官 (zh) (kǎoguān)

• Danish: eksaminator c, censor (da) c (fremmed)
• Finnish: arvostelija (fi)
• German: Prüfer (de) m
• Irish: scrúdaitheoir
• Kyrgyz: сынакчы (sınakcı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sensor (no) m

  Nynorsk: sensor m

• Russian: экзамена́тор (ru) m (ekzamenátor)
• Swahili: mtahini (sw)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.za.mi.ne/

• Audio:

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Verb

examiner

1. to examine

Conjugation

Conjugation of examiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	examiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	examinant /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		examiné /ɛɡ.za.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	examine /ɛɡ.za.min/	examines /ɛɡ.za.min/	examine /ɛɡ.za.min/	examinons /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɔ̃/	examinez /ɛɡ.za.mi.ne/	examinent /ɛɡ.za.min/
	imperfect	examinais /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɛ/	examinais /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɛ/	examinait /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɛ/	examinions /ɛɡ.za.mi.njɔ̃/	examiniez /ɛɡ.za.mi.nje/	examinaient /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	examinai /ɛɡ.za.mi.ne/	examinas /ɛɡ.za.mi.na/	examina /ɛɡ.za.mi.na/	examinâmes /ɛɡ.za.mi.nam/	examinâtes /ɛɡ.za.mi.nat/	examinèrent /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	examinerai /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁe/	examineras /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁa/	examinera /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁa/	examinerons /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁɔ̃/	examinerez /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁe/	examineront /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	examinerais /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁɛ/	examinerais /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁɛ/	examinerait /ɛɡ.za.min.ʁɛ/	examinerions /ɛɡ.za.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	examineriez /ɛɡ.za.mi.nə.ʁje/	examineraient /ɛɡ.za.min.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	examine /ɛɡ.za.min/	examines /ɛɡ.za.min/	examine /ɛɡ.za.min/	examinions /ɛɡ.za.mi.njɔ̃/	examiniez /ɛɡ.za.mi.nje/	examinent /ɛɡ.za.min/
	imperfect2	examinasse /ɛɡ.za.mi.nas/	examinasses /ɛɡ.za.mi.nas/	examinât /ɛɡ.za.mi.na/	examinassions /ɛɡ.za.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	examinassiez /ɛɡ.za.mi.na.sje/	examinassent /ɛɡ.za.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	examine /ɛɡ.za.min/	—	examinons /ɛɡ.za.mi.nɔ̃/	examinez /ɛɡ.za.mi.ne/	—
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).

Descendants

• → Romanian: examina

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

exāminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exāminō

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmināre, present active infinitive of exāminō.

Verb

examiner

1. to question (pose questions to)
2. to torture
3. to consider; to ponder; to weigh up

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of examiner (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		examiner			avoir examiné
gerund		en examinant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		examinant
past participle		examiné
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	examin	examines	examine	examinons	examinez	examinent
	imperfect	examinoie, examineie, examinoe, examineve	examinoies, examineies, examinoes, examineves	examinoit, examineit, examinot, examineve	examiniiens, examiniens	examiniiez, examiniez	examinoient, examineient, examinoent, examinevent
	preterite	examinai	examinas	examina	examinames	examinastes	examinerent
	future	examinerai	examineras	examinera	examinerons	examineroiz, examinereiz, examinerez	examineront
	conditional	examineroie, examinereie	examineroies, examinereies	examineroit, examinereit	examineriiens, examineriens	examineriiez, examineriez	examineroient, examinereient
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	examin	examins	examint	examinons	examinez	examinent
	imperfect	examinasse	examinasses	examinast	examinissons, examinissiens	examinissoiz, examinissez, examinissiez	examinassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	examine	—	examinons	examinez	—

Related terms

• examinateur
• examination
• examineor

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (examiner)