kidnapper

See also: Kidnapper

English

Alternative forms

• kidnapers

Noun

kidnapper ‎(plural kidnappers)

1. A person who kidnaps someone.

Related terms

• kidnap

Derived terms

• catnapper
• dognapper
• petnapper

Translations

one who performs kidnap

• Czech: únosce m
• Dutch: kidnapper (nl) m, ontvoerder (nl) m, schaker (nl) m
• German: Entführer (de) m
• Greek: απαγωγέας (el) m ‎(apagogéas)
• Hungarian: emberrabló (hu), gyermekrabló (hu)
• Italian: rapitore (it)
• Norwegian: barnenapper m

  Bokmål: kidnapper (no) m

• Polish: porywacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: sequestrador (pt) m
• Romanian: răpitor (ro) m
• Russian: похити́тель (ru) m ‎(poxitítelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: otmičar (sh) m, ljudokradica f
• Spanish: secuestrador (es) m, raptor (es) m, captor (es) m
• Swedish: kidnappare (sv) c
• Turkish: çocuk hırsızı

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

kidnapper m ‎(plural kidnappers, diminutive kidnappertje n)

1. A person who kidnaps someone.

Synonyms

• ontvoerder

Related terms

• schaker

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English kidnap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid.na.pe/

Verb

kidnapper

1. to kidnap

Conjugation

  Conjugation of kidnapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		kidnapper			avoir kidnappé
gerund		en kidnappant			en ayant kidnappé
present participle		kidnappant /kid.na.pɑ̃/
past participle		kidnappé /kid.na.pe/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	kidnappe /kid.nap/	kidnappes /kid.nap/	kidnappe /kid.nap/	kidnappons /kid.na.pɔ̃/	kidnappez /kid.na.pe/	kidnappent /kid.nap/
	imperfect	kidnappais /kid.na.pɛ/	kidnappais /kid.na.pɛ/	kidnappait /kid.na.pɛ/	kidnappions /kid.na.pjɔ̃/	kidnappiez /kid.na.pje/	kidnappaient /kid.na.pɛ/
	past historic1	kidnappai /kid.na.pe/	kidnappas /kid.na.pa/	kidnappa /kid.na.pa/	kidnappâmes /kid.na.pam/	kidnappâtes /kid.na.pat/	kidnappèrent /kid.na.pɛʁ/
	future	kidnapperai /kid.na.p(ə).ʁe/	kidnapperas /kid.na.p(ə).ʁa/	kidnappera /kid.na.p(ə).ʁa/	kidnapperons /kid.na.p(ə).ʁɔ̃/	kidnapperez /kid.na.p(ə).ʁe/	kidnapperont /kid.na.p(ə).ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	kidnapperais /kid.na.p(ə).ʁɛ/	kidnapperais /kid.na.p(ə).ʁɛ/	kidnapperait /kid.na.p(ə).ʁɛ/	kidnapperions /kid.na.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	kidnapperiez /kid.na.pə.ʁje/	kidnapperaient /kid.na.p(ə).ʁɛ/
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	kidnappe /kid.nap/	kidnappes /kid.nap/	kidnappe /kid.nap/	kidnappions /kid.na.pjɔ̃/	kidnappiez /kid.na.pje/	kidnappent /kid.nap/
	imperfect1	kidnappasse /kid.na.pas/	kidnappasses /kid.na.pas/	kidnappât /kid.na.pa/	kidnappassions /kid.na.pa.sjɔ̃/	kidnappassiez /kid.na.pa.sje/	kidnappassent /kid.na.pas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	kidnappe /kid.nap/	—	kidnappons /kid.na.pɔ̃/	kidnappez /kid.na.pe/	—
1literary tenses

External links

• “kidnapper” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English kidnapper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kidˈnapər/
• Rhymes: -apər

Noun

kidnapper m ‎(definite singular kidnapperen, indefinite plural kidnappere, definite plural kidnapperne)

1. a kidnapper

Related terms

• kidnappe

See also

• kidnappar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

kidnapper

1. present tense of kidnappe

References

• “kidnapper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.