rater
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1[edit]
From rate (“to appraise”) + -er.
Noun[edit]
rater (plural raters)
- One who provides a rating or assessment.
- The three raters agreed on the score.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From rate (“to scold; berate”) + -er.
Noun[edit]
rater (plural raters)
Related terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From earlier rater (“to miss, fail to hit, fail, complete unsuccessfully", in reference to a weapon, "to misfire, fail to fire”), from the expression (1651) prendre un rat (“to misfire”, literally “to get a rat”), from rat (“rat”). More at rat.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
rater
- (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing)
- Il va rater le car
- He's going to miss the bus
- Il va rater le car
- (intransitive) to fail
- (transitive, informal) to screw up; to mess up
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of rater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rater | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | ratant /ʁa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | raté /ʁa.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | rate /ʁat/ |
rates /ʁat/ |
rate /ʁat/ |
ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/ |
ratez /ʁa.te/ |
ratent /ʁat/ |
imperfect | ratais /ʁa.tɛ/ |
ratais /ʁa.tɛ/ |
ratait /ʁa.tɛ/ |
rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/ |
ratiez /ʁa.tje/ |
rataient /ʁa.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | ratai /ʁa.te/ |
ratas /ʁa.ta/ |
rata /ʁa.ta/ |
ratâmes /ʁa.tam/ |
ratâtes /ʁa.tat/ |
ratèrent /ʁa.tɛʁ/ | |
future | raterai /ʁa.tʁe/ |
rateras /ʁa.tʁa/ |
ratera /ʁa.tʁa/ |
raterons /ʁa.tʁɔ̃/ |
raterez /ʁa.tʁe/ |
rateront /ʁa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | raterais /ʁa.tʁɛ/ |
raterais /ʁa.tʁɛ/ |
raterait /ʁa.tʁɛ/ |
raterions /ʁa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rateriez /ʁa.tə.ʁje/ |
rateraient /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | rate /ʁat/ |
rates /ʁat/ |
rate /ʁat/ |
rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/ |
ratiez /ʁa.tje/ |
ratent /ʁat/ |
imperfect2 | ratasse /ʁa.tas/ |
ratasses /ʁa.tas/ |
ratât /ʁa.ta/ |
ratassions /ʁa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
ratassiez /ʁa.ta.sje/ |
ratassent /ʁa.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rate /ʁat/ |
— | ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/ |
ratez /ʁa.te/ |
— | |
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). |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “rater” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Ladin[edit]
Verb[edit]
rater
- to yield (a return)
Conjugation[edit]
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of rater (first conjugation)
infinitive | rater, raté | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avei | gerund | ratan | |||
past participle | raté | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | ie | tu | el / ela | nos | vos | ei / eles |
present | rate, rateie | rates, rateies | rata, rateia, ratea | raton | rateis | rata, rateia |
imperfect | ratove | ratoves | ratova | ratovan | ratovais | ratova |
future | rataré | rataras | ratarà | rataron | ratareis | ratarà |
subjunctive | che ie | che tu | che el / ela | che nos | che vos | che ei / eles |
present | rate, rateie | rates, rateies | rate, rateie | raton | rateis | rate |
imperfect | ratasse | ratasses | ratassa | ratassan | ratassais | ratassa |
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – |
— | rata, rateia | — | raton | ratede | — |
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
rater m
- indefinite plural of rate
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