reporter
English
Etymology
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpoətə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun
reporter (plural reporters)
- Someone or something that reports.
- The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
- A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
- A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
- (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
- (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Derived terms
- case reporter
- court reporter
- cub reporter
- law reporter
- mandated reporter
- police reporter
Translations
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Catalan
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)
- reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)
Further reading
- “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reporter”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter
Noun
reporter
- someone or something that reports
- a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television
Danish
Noun
reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)
- (journalism) a reporter, a journalist
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | reporter | reporteren | reportere | reporterne |
genitive | reporters | reporterens | reporteres | reporternes |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
audio (file)
Verb
reporter
- (literally) to carry something back to where it was
- (literally) to wear again
- to transfer (an emotion)
- Reporter son amour sur quelqu'un ― To transfer one's love to somebody
- to put back; to put off; to postpone
- Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.
- 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 113:
- Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d'attendre la fin de l'enquête sur le violeur pour s'amuser.
- Graham had put back the party, suggesting to wait until the investigation about the rapist was over to have fun.
- (usually impersonal) to carry or take back in time
- Il faut se reporter au mois dernier pour comprendre. ― We have to go back in time a month to understand.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to refer; to check
- Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4. ― To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.
- (mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward
- Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3! ― That idiot forgot to carry over a 3!
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | reporter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | reportant /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | reporté /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportes /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
reportez /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ |
reportent /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
imperfect | reportais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
reportais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
reportait /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
reportions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
reportiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/ |
reportaient /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | reportai /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ |
reportas /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ |
reporta /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ |
reportâmes /ʁə.pɔʁ.tam/ |
reportâtes /ʁə.pɔʁ.tat/ |
reportèrent /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | reporterai /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
reporteras /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
reportera /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
reporterons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
reporterez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
reporteront /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | reporterais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
reporterais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
reporterait /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
reporterions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reporteriez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
reporteraient /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.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 | reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportes /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
reportions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
reportiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/ |
reportent /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
imperfect2 | reportasse /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ |
reportasses /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ |
reportât /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ |
reportassions /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
reportassiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
reportassent /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/ |
— | reportons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
reportez /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
Usage notes
- The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpɔr.ter/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔrter
- Hyphenation: re‧pòr‧ter
Latin
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms
Related terms
Old French
Verb
reporter
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | reporter | avoir reporté | |||||
gerund | en reportant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
present participle | reportant | ||||||
past participle | reporté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | report | reportes | reporte | reportons | reportez | reportent |
imperfect | reportoie, reporteie, reportoe, reporteve | reportoies, reporteies, reportoes, reporteves | reportoit, reporteit, reportot, reporteve | reportiiens, reportiens | reportiiez, reportiez | reportoient, reporteient, reportoent, reportevent | |
preterite | reportai | reportas | reporta | reportames | reportastes | reporterent | |
future | reporterai | reporteras | reportera | reporterons | reporteroiz, reportereiz, reporterez | reporteront | |
conditional | reporteroie, reportereie | reporteroies, reportereies | reporteroit, reportereit | reporteriiens, reporteriens | reporteriiez, reporteriez | reporteroient, reportereient | |
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 anterior | Use the preterite 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 jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | report | reporz | report | reportons | reportez | reportent |
imperfect | reportasse | reportasses | reportast | reportissons, reportissiens | reportissoiz, reportissez, reportissiez | reportassent | |
compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | reporte | — | reportons | reportez | — |
References
- Etymology and history of “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔrtɛr
- Syllabification: re‧por‧ter
Declension
Romanian
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) reporter | reporterul | (niște) reporteri | reporterii |
genitive/dative | (unui) reporter | reporterului | (unor) reporteri | reporterilor |
vocative | reporterule | reporterilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /repǒrteːr/
- Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter