kidnapper

See also: Kidnapper

English

Alternative forms

• kidnaper

Etymology

kidnap +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪdnæpɚ/

Noun

kidnapper (plural kidnappers)

1. A person who kidnaps someone.

Derived terms

• catnapper
• dognapper
• petnapper

Related terms

• kidnap

Translations

one who performs kidnap

• Catalan: segrestador m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拐子佬 (gwaai² zi² lou²)

• Czech: únosce m
• Danish: kidnapper c, bortfører c
• Dutch: kidnapper (nl) m, ontvoerder (nl) m, schaker (nl) m
• Finnish: sieppaaja (fi), kidnappaaja (fi)
• French: ravisseur (fr) m, ravisseuse (fr) f, kidnappeur (fr) m, kidnappeuse (fr) f
• Galician: secuestrador m
• Georgian: გამტაცებელი (gamṭacebeli), მომტაცებელი (momṭacebeli)
• German: Entführer (de) m
• Greek: απαγωγέας (el) m (apagogéas)

• Hungarian: emberrabló (hu), gyermekrabló (hu)
• Italian: rapitore (it)
• Latin: plagiārius m, plagiāria m
• 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

Borrowed from English kidnap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid.na.pe/

Verb

kidnapper

1. to kidnap

Conjugation

Conjugation of kidnapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	kidnapper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	kidnappant /kid.na.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		kidnappé /kid.na.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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.pʁe/	kidnapperas /kid.na.pʁa/	kidnappera /kid.na.pʁa/	kidnapperons /kid.na.pʁɔ̃/	kidnapperez /kid.na.pʁe/	kidnapperont /kid.na.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	kidnapperais /kid.na.pʁɛ/	kidnapperais /kid.na.pʁɛ/	kidnapperait /kid.na.pʁɛ/	kidnapperions /kid.na.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	kidnapperiez /kid.na.pə.ʁje/	kidnapperaient /kid.na.pʁɛ/
(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	kidnappe /kid.nap/	kidnappes /kid.nap/	kidnappe /kid.nap/	kidnappions /kid.na.pjɔ̃/	kidnappiez /kid.na.pje/	kidnappent /kid.nap/
	imperfect2	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	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	kidnappe /kid.nap/	—	kidnappons /kid.na.pɔ̃/	kidnappez /kid.na.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Borrowed 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
• kidnapping

See also

• kidnappar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

kidnapper

1. present of kidnappe

References

• “kidnapper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.