renter

English

Etymology 1

rent +‎ -er

Noun

renter (plural renters)

1. One who rents property or other goods from another.
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2. (law) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.

Usage notes

Technically, in common legal usage, the term should refer only to the party who owns the property and allows another to rent it. The party paying for the use of the property is properly termed a rentee. However, common usage is to use the term to refer to the party paying for use of the property, and this usage has seeped into legal parlance as well.

Synonyms

• (one who rents property from another) lessee, tenant, rentee
• (one who rents property to another) lessor, landlord

Etymology 2

From French rentraire; Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + in (“into, in”) + trahere (“to draw”).

Verb

renter (third-person singular simple present renters, present participle rentering, simple past and past participle rentered)

1. to sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
2. to restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

Anagrams

• rerent

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French

Verb

renter

1. to endow

Inflection

  Conjugation of renter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		renter			avoir renté
gerund		en rentant			en ayant renté
present participle		rentant /ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle		renté /ʁɑ̃.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentes /ʁɑ̃t/	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentons /ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	rentez /ʁɑ̃.te/	rentent /ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect	rentais /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	rentais /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	rentait /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	rentions /ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	rentiez /ʁɑ̃.tje/	rentaient /ʁɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic1	rentai /ʁɑ̃.te/	rentas /ʁɑ̃.ta/	renta /ʁɑ̃.ta/	rentâmes /ʁɑ̃.tam/	rentâtes /ʁɑ̃.tat/	rentèrent /ʁɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	renterai /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	renteras /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	rentera /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	renterons /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	renterez /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	renteront /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	renterais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	renterais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	renterait /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	renterions /ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	renteriez /ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	renteraient /ʁɑ̃.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	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentes /ʁɑ̃t/	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	rentions /ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	rentiez /ʁɑ̃.tje/	rentent /ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect1	rentasse /ʁɑ̃.tas/	rentasses /ʁɑ̃.tas/	rentât /ʁɑ̃.ta/	rentassions /ʁɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	rentassiez /ʁɑ̃.ta.sje/	rentassent /ʁɑ̃.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	–
		—	rente /ʁɑ̃t/	—	rentons /ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	rentez /ʁɑ̃.te/	—
1literary tenses

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• entrer, errent, rentre, rentré

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

renter m, f

1. indefinite plural of rente

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

renter f

1. indefinite plural of rente