repairer

English

Etymology

repair +‎ -er.

Noun

repairer (plural repairers)

1. A person who repairs things.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 58:12:

     And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1910, Chapter IV, p. 151-2, [1]

     The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

   • 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 168,

     Where the European city grid of right angles was overgrown and broken up by the purposeful tangle of African pursuits—the shortest point-to-point meander taken on foot between barbers and fruit-sellers, scribes and bicycle repairers—to be white was to feel invisible; only a sensuous self-assurance, while it lasted, could counter that.

Translations

person who repairs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修理工人 (xiūlǐ gōngrén)

• Finnish: korjaaja (fi)
• French: réparateur (fr) m
• Norman: griyeux m

• Portuguese: reparador m
• Romanian: reparator (ro) m, reparatoare f
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachair m
• Turkish: tamirci (tr)

Anagrams

• Perreira, rare-ripe, rareripe

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French

Etymology

From Old French repairier (“to return home”). Doublet of rapatrier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/

Verb

repairer

1. (obsolete, chiefly of an animal) to go home

Conjugation

Conjugation of repairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	repairer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	repairant /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		repairé /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaires /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repairons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɔ̃/	repairez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/	repairent /ʁə.pɛʁ/
	imperfect	repairais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/	repairais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/	repairait /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/	repairions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁjɔ̃/	repairiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁje/	repairaient /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	repairai /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/	repairas /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa/	repaira /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa/	repairâmes /ʁə.pɛ.ʁam/	repairâtes /ʁə.pɛ.ʁat/	repairèrent /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	repairerai /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/	repaireras /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/	repairera /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/	repairerons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	repairerez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/	repaireront /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	repairerais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	repairerais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	repairerait /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	repairerions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	repaireriez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁje/	repaireraient /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(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	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaires /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repairions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁjɔ̃/	repairiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁje/	repairent /ʁə.pɛʁ/
	imperfect2	repairasse /ʁə.pɛ.ʁas/	repairasses /ʁə.pɛ.ʁas/	repairât /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa/	repairassions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	repairassiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa.sje/	repairassent /ʁə.pɛ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	—	repairons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɔ̃/	repairez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/	—
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 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

• repaire (noun)

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Old French

Verb

repairer

1. Alternative form of repairier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of repairer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		repairer			avoir repairé
gerund		en repairant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		repairant
past participle		repairé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	repair	repaires	repaire	repairons	repairez	repairent
	imperfect	repairoie, repaireie, repairoe, repaireve	repairoies, repaireies, repairoes, repaireves	repairoit, repaireit, repairot, repaireve	repairiiens, repairiens	repairiiez, repairiez	repairoient, repaireient, repairoent, repairevent
	preterite	repairai	repairas	repaira	repairames	repairastes	repairerent
	future	repairerai	repaireras	repairera	repairerons	repaireroiz, repairereiz, repairerez	repaireront
	conditional	repaireroie, repairereie	repaireroies, repairereies	repaireroit, repairereit	repaireriiens, repaireriens	repaireriiez, repaireriez	repaireroient, repairereient
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 anterior	Use the preterite 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 jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	repair	repairs	repairt	repairons	repairez	repairent
	imperfect	repairasse	repairasses	repairast	repairissons, repairissiens	repairissoiz, repairissez, repairissiez	repairassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	repaire	—	repairons	repairez	—