informer
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)mə(r)
Noun
informer (plural informers)
- One who informs someone else about something.
- A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
- One who informs, animates, or inspires.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Thomson to this entry?)
- Alexander Pope (Can we date this quote?)
- Nature, informer of the poet's art.
Synonyms
Translations
one who informs
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person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity
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See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnfōrmō, īnfōrmāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
informer
- to inform
- Il m'a informé de la situation présente.
- He informed me of the present situation.
- Il m'a informé de la situation présente.
- to enlighten
- to impart knowledge (upon)
Conjugation
Conjugation of informer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | informer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | informant /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | informé /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
informes /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
informons /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/ |
informez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/ |
informent /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
imperfect | informais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/ |
informais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/ |
informait /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/ |
informions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
informiez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mje/ |
informaient /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/ | |
past historic2 | informai /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/ |
informas /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma/ |
informa /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma/ |
informâmes /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mam/ |
informâtes /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mat/ |
informèrent /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛʁ/ | |
future | informerai /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/ |
informeras /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/ |
informera /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/ |
informerons /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ |
informerez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/ |
informeront /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | informerais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
informerais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
informerait /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
informerions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
informeriez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁje/ |
informeraient /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.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 | informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
informes /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
informions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
informiez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mje/ |
informent /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
imperfect2 | informasse /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mas/ |
informasses /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mas/ |
informât /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma/ |
informassions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
informassiez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sje/ |
informassent /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/ |
— | informons /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/ |
informez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/ |
— | |
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). |
Related terms
Further reading
- “informer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) īnfōrmer
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
informer
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