employer
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
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employer (plural employers)
- A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
- It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work. –E. F. Schumacher
[edit] Translations
person or entity which employs others
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Old French empleier, from Latin implicare.
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[edit] Verb
employer
- To employ
[edit] Conjugation
- This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with a ‘i’ before an ‘e’.
Conjugation of employer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | employer | avoir employé | |||||
| gerund | en employant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | employant | ||||||
| past participle | employé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | emploie | emploies | emploie | employons | employez | emploient |
| imperfect | employais | employais | employait | employions | employiez | employaient | |
| past historic | employai | employas | employa | employâmes | employâtes | employèrent | |
| future | emploierai | emploieras | emploiera | emploierons | emploierez | emploieront | |
| conditional | emploierais | emploierais | emploierait | emploierions | emploieriez | emploieraient | |
| 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 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 | emploie | emploies | emploie | employions | employiez | emploient |
| imperfect | employasse | employasses | employât | employassions | employassiez | employassent | |
| 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 | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | emploie | — | employons | employez | — | ||
