reporter

See also Reporter

English

Alternative forms

• reportor (obsolete)
• reportour (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)tə(r)

Etymology

to report + -er

Noun

Wikipedia reporter (plural reporters)

1. Agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.
2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
4. (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

Derived terms

Terms derived from reporter

case reporter court reporter

cub reporter law reporter

police reporter

Translations

journalist

• Arabic: مراسل (mūrasil) m, صحافي (ṣaḥāfiy) m
• Chinese: 記者, 记者 (jìzhě)
• Czech: zpravodaj m (journalist)
• Dutch: verslaggever (nl) m
• French: reporter (fr), rapporteur (fr), journaliste (fr)
• German: Reporter (de) m, Reporterin (de) f
• Greek: ρεπόρτερ (el) (repórter) c 
• Hungarian: riporter (hu)
• Japanese: 記者 (きしゃ, kisha), 報告者 (ほうこくしゃ, hōkokusha), リポーター (ripōtā), ジャーナリスト (jānarisuto)

• Lao: ນັກຂ່າວ (lo) (nak-khaaw)
• Portuguese: repórter (pt), jornalista (pt)
• Russian: журналист (ru) (žurnalíst) m , корреспондент (ru) (korrespondént) m , репортёр (ru) (reportjór) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: reporter (sh) m
• Slovak: reportér (sk) m, spravodajca (sk) m
• Spanish: reportero (es) m
• Turkish: muhabir (tr)

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Danish

Noun

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

1. (journalism) a reporter, a journalist

Inflection

    Inflection of reporter

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	reporter	reporteren	reportere	reporterne
genitive	reporters	reporterens	reporteres	reporternes

Verb

reporter

1. imperativ of reportere

Related terms

• reportage
• reportere

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French

Etymology 1

re- + porter

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA: /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/

Verb

reporter

1. To carry back to where it something was.
2. To wear again.
3. To transfer (an emotion).

   Reporter son amour sur quelqu'un — To transfer one's love to somebody

4. 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 2-89021-363-3, page 116:

     Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d'attendre la find de l'enquête pour s'amuser. — Graham had put back the party, suggesting that they wait until the investigation was over to have fun.

5. (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 amonth to understand.

6. (pronominal) 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.

7. (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

   Conjugation of reporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		reporter			avoir reporté
gerund		en reportant			en ayant reporté
present participle		reportant
past participle		reporté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	reporte	reportes	reporte	reportons	reportez	reportent
	imperfect	reportais	reportais	reportait	reportions	reportiez	reportaient
	past historic1	reportai	reportas	reporta	reportâmes	reportâtes	reportèrent
	future	reporterai	reporteras	reportera	reporterons	reporterez	reporteront
	conditional	reporterais	reporterais	reporterait	reporterions	reporteriez	reporteraient
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 anterior1	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	reporte	reportes	reporte	reportions	reportiez	reportent
	imperfect1	reportasse	reportasses	reportât	reportassions	reportassiez	reportassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	reporte	—	reportons	reportez	—
1literary tenses

Etymology 2

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁəpɔʁtɛʁ/

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters)

1. A news reporter; a journalist.

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.

See also

• reporteur

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

reporter m and f (invariable)

1. reporter (journalist)

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Latin

Verb

reporter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /repǒrteːr/
• Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

Noun

repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Declension

    declension of reporter

	singular	plural
nominative	repòrtēr	reporteri
genitive	reportéra	reportera
dative	reporteru	reporterima
accusative	reportera	reportere
vocative	reporteru	reporteri
locative	reporteru	reporterima
instrumental	reporterom	reporterima