rater

English

Etymology 1

From rate (“to appraise”) +‎ -er.

Noun

rater (plural raters)

1. One who provides a rating or assessment.

   The three raters agreed on the score.

Derived terms

• interrater

Etymology 2

From rate (“to scold; berate”) +‎ -er.

Noun

rater (plural raters)

1. One who rates or scolds.

Related terms

• berate

Anagrams

• Arter, Terra, arter, tarre, terra

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French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.te/

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Verb

rater

1. (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing)

   Il va rater le car

   He's going to miss the bus

2. (intransitive) to fail
3. (transitive, informal) to screw up; to mess up

Conjugation

  Conjugation of rater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		rater			avoir raté
gerund		en ratant			en ayant raté
present participle		ratant /ʁa.tɑ̃/
past participle		raté /ʁa.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	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	rate /ʁat/	rates /ʁat/	rate /ʁat/	rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/	ratiez /ʁa.tje/	ratent /ʁat/
	imperfect1	ratasse /ʁa.tas/	ratasses /ʁa.tas/	ratât /ʁa.ta/	ratassions /ʁa.ta.sjɔ̃/	ratassiez /ʁa.ta.sje/	ratassent /ʁa.tas/
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	–
		—	rate /ʁat/	—	ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/	ratez /ʁa.te/	—
1literary tenses

Derived terms

• raté
• ratable
• irratable

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• arrêt, errât, terra

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Ladin

Verb

rater

1. to yield (a return)

Conjugation

• 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
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	—

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rater m

1. indefinite plural of rate