payer

English

Alternative forms

• payor

Etymology

pay +‎ -er (“subject of action”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪə(r)

Noun

payer (plural payers)

1. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

Antonyms

• payee

Translations

one who pays

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 支付者 (cmn) (zhīfùzhě)

• Finnish: maksaja (fi)
• French: payeur (fr) m, payeuse (fr) f
• German: Zahler (de) m, Zahlerin (de) f

• Japanese: 支払人 (ja) (しはらいにん, shiharainin)
• Russian: плательщик (ru) (platélʹščik) m, плательщица (ru) (platélʹščica) f
• Serbo-Croatian: platiša (sh) m, platac (sh) m
• Swedish: betalare (sv) c

Anagrams

• peary, repay

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French

Etymology

From Latin pacāre, present active infinitive of pacō (“pacify”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /pe.je/, X-SAMPA: /pe.je/

Verb

payer

1. (transitive) to pay (for)

   payer une amende - pay a fine

   payer un service - pay for a service

2. (transitive) to pay (someone)

   il m'a payé 3 euros - he paid me 3 euros

   payer la caissière - pay the cashier

3. pay for (suffer the consequences of something)
4. to pay off

Conjugation

• This verb is in a group of -er verbs, which all end in -ayer. Verbs ending in -oyer and -uyer are conjugated slightly differently. This verb either keeps the ‘y’ everywhere, or replaces it with ‘i’ in front of -e, -es and -ent.

   Conjugation of payer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		payer			avoir payé
gerund		en payant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		payant
past participle		payé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	paye or paie	payes or paies	paye or paie	payons	payez	payent or paient
	imperfect	payais	payais	payait	payions	payiez	payaient
	past historic1	payai	payas	paya	payâmes	payâtes	payèrent
	future	payerai or paierai	payeras or paieras	payera or paiera	payerons or paierons	payerez or paierez	payeront or paieront
	conditional	payerais or paierais	payerais or paierais	payerait or paierait	payerions or paierions	payeriez or paieriez	payeraient or paieraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	paye or paie	payes or paies	paye or paie	payions	payiez	payent or paient
	imperfect1	payasse	payasses	payât	payassions	payassiez	payassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	paye or paie	—	payons	payez	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• paie, paye
• paiement, payement
• payable
• payeur

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From Old French paier, from Latin pacō, pacāre (“pacify”).

Verb

payer

1. to pay

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Middle French

Verb

payer

1. to pay

Conjugation

   Conjugation of payer

		simple			compound
infinitive		payer			avoir payé
gerund		en payant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		payant
past participle		payé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (may be j' before a vowel)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils, elles
simple tenses	present	paye	payes	paye	payons	payez	payent
	imperfect	payois, payoys	payois, payoys	payoit, payoyt	payions, payyons	payiez, payyez	payoient, payoyent
	past historic	paya	payas	paya	payasmes	payastes	payerent
	future	payerai, payeray	payeras	payera	payerons	payerez	payeront
	conditional	payerois, payeroys	payerois, payeroys	payeroit, payeroyt	payerions, payeryons	payeriez, payeryez	payeroient, payeroyent
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	que tu	qu'il	que nous	que vous	qu'ils, qu'elles
simple tenses	present	paye	payes	paye	payons	payez	payent
	imperfect	payasse	payasses	payast	payassions	payassiez	payassent
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	–
		—	paye	—	payons	payez	—