importer

See also: importér

English

Etymology

import +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

importer (plural importers)

1. One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.

   India is the world's biggest importer of gold.

   The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?

   • 1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports:

     Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

Translations

a person or company who imports goods into a country

• Albanian: importues (sq) m
• Arabic: مُسْتَوْرِد m (mustawrid), مُسْتَوْرِدَة f (mustawrida)
• Armenian: ներմուծող (nermucoġ)
• Azerbaijani: idxalçı
• Belarusian: імпарцёр m (imparcjór)
• Bulgarian: вноси́тел m (vnosítel)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 進口商／进口商 (zeon³ hau² soeng¹)

  Mandarin: 進口商／进口商 (zh) (jìnkǒu shāng)

• Czech: dovozce m, importér (cs) m
• Danish: importør c
• Dutch: importeur (nl) m
• Estonian: importija
• Finnish: maahantuoja (fi)
• French: importateur (fr) m, importatrice (fr) f
• Georgian: იმპორტიორი (imṗorṭiori)
• German: Importeur (de) m
• Greek: εισαγωγέας (el) m (eisagogéas)
• Hindi: आयातक m (āyātak), आयातकर्ता m (āyātkartā), इम्पॉर्टर m (impŏrṭar)
• Hungarian: importőr (hu)
• Icelandic: innflytjandi (is) m
• Irish: allmhaireoir m, iompórtálaí m
• Italian: importatore (it) m, importatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 輸入業者 (ゆにゅうぎょうしゃ, yunyū gyōsha)
• Kazakh: импорттаушы (importtauşy)
• Khmer: អាហារិន (ʼaahaarɨn), ឈ្មួញនាំចូល (chmuəñ nŏəm coul)
• Korean: 수입업자(輸入業者) (su'ibeopja), 수입사(輸入社) (su'ipsa)
• Kyrgyz: импортёр (importyor)
• Lao: ຜູ້​ນໍາ​ເຂົ້າ (phū nam khao)
• Latvian: importētājs m
• Lithuanian: importuotojas m
• Macedonian: увозник m (uvoznik)
• Manx: kionneyder stiagh m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: импортлогч (mn) (importlogč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: importør m

  Nynorsk: importør m

• Persian: وارِدکُنَندِه (vâredkonande)
• Polish: importer (pl) m
• Portuguese: importador m (person), importadora f (person or company)
• Romanian: importator (ro) m
• Russian: импортёр (ru) m (importjór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у́вознӣк m

  Roman: úvoznīk (sh) m

• Slovak: dovozca m, importér m
• Slovene: uvoznik m
• Spanish: importador (es) m
• Swedish: importör (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagaangkat
• Tajik: импортёр (importyor), воридкунанда (voridkunanda)
• Tatar: импортчы (importçı)
• Thai: ผู้นำเข้า (pûu-nam-kâo)
• Turkish: ithalatçı (tr)
• Turkmen: importçy
• Ukrainian: імпорте́р (uk) m (importér)
• Urdu: اِمْپوْرٹَر (imporṭar)
• Uyghur: ئىمپورتچى (importchi), ئىمپورتېر (importër)
• Uzbek: importyor (uz), importchi
• Vietnamese: người nhập khẩu (person), cơ quan nhập khẩu (organisation), nước nhập khẩu (country)

See also

• exporter

Anagrams

• promerit, reimport

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin importāre. The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian importare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/

• audio

  (file)

Verb

importer

1. (transitive) to import
2. (transitive with à) to matter, to be relevant, important (to someone)

   En quoi cela m’importe-t-il ?

   Why does that matter to me?

   Que vous importe ?

   Why do you care?

   Il m’importe peu de savoir s’il a réussi.

   It doesn't matter to me whether he succeeded.

   Ses résultats importaient peu à ses parents.

   Her marks (UK) or grades (US) didn't matter much to her parents.

Conjugation

Conjugation of importer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	importer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	important /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		importé /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	importes /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	importons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	importez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/	importent /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
	imperfect	importais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/	importais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/	importait /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/	importions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	importiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tje/	importaient /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	importai /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/	importas /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/	importa /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/	importâmes /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tam/	importâtes /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tat/	importèrent /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	importerai /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	importeras /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	importera /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	importerons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	importerez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	importeront /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	importerais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	importerais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	importerait /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	importerions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	importeriez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/	importeraient /ɛ̃.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	importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	importes /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	importions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	importiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tje/	importent /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
	imperfect2	importasse /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/	importasses /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/	importât /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/	importassions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	importassiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sje/	importassent /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/	—	importons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	importez /ɛ̃.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: 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).

Derived terms

• importation
• n’importe qui, n’importe quoi
• peu importe
• peu importer

See also

• n’avoir que faire
• peu me chaut

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

importer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of importō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

importer

1. imperative of importere