shopper

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *skup-

Old English scoppa

Middle English shoppe

English shop

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English shopper

From shop + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒp.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔp.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑ.pɚ/
• (Pakistani English) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑː.pəɾ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

Noun

shopper (plural shoppers)

1. A person who shops.
   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

     On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.

2. A free local newspaper containing advertisements for local shops etc; sometimes includes discount coupons.
3. A kind of bicycle suited to riding short distances.
   • 2010, Malc Cowle, The Adventures of a Bicycle Frame Builder‎^[2]:

     Every conceivable type of cycle's represented; modern stripped down carbon fibre race bikes, state of the art touring machines and humble shoppers, tandems, tandem trikes, racing trikes and shopping trikes, mountain and BMX bikes.

4. (Pakistan) A plastic shopping bag.

Derived terms

• comparison shopper
• cybershopper
• deshopper
• e-shopper
• mystery shopper
• nonshopper
• personal shopper
• secret shopper
• shoppertainment
• teleshopper
• vaccine shopper
• window-shopper

Related terms

• open-shopper

Descendants

• → Urdu: شاپر (śāpar)

Translations

a person who shops

• Arabic: مُتَسَوِّق m (mutasawwiq), مُتَسَوِّقَة f (mutasawwiqa)
• Bulgarian: купувач m (kupuvač)
• Catalan: comprador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 購買者 / 购买者 (zh) (gòumǎizhě), 購物者 / 购物者 (gòuwùzhě)

• French: acheteur (fr), acheteuse (fr) f, client (fr), cliente (fr) f
• German: Käufer (de) m, Käuferin (de) f
• Japanese: 買い物客 (かいものきゃく, kaimonokyaku)
• Marathi: ग्राहक (mr) m (grāhak)
• Polish: klient (pl) m
• Russian: покупа́тель (ru) m (pokupátelʹ), покупа́тельница (ru) f (pokupátelʹnica)
• Spanish: comprador (es) m, compradora (es) f

Anagrams

• hoppers

French

Etymology

English shop +‎ -er or back-formation from shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.pe/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Homophone: choper

Verb

shopper

1. (intransitive, transitive, colloquial) to shop

Conjugation

Conjugation of shopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	shopper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	shoppant /ʃɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		shoppé /ʃɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	shoppe /ʃɔp/	shoppes /ʃɔp/	shoppe /ʃɔp/	shoppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/	shoppez /ʃɔ.pe/	shoppent /ʃɔp/
	imperfect	shoppais /ʃɔ.pɛ/	shoppais /ʃɔ.pɛ/	shoppait /ʃɔ.pɛ/	shoppions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/	shoppiez /ʃɔ.pje/	shoppaient /ʃɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	shoppai /ʃɔ.pe/	shoppas /ʃɔ.pa/	shoppa /ʃɔ.pa/	shoppâmes /ʃɔ.pam/	shoppâtes /ʃɔ.pat/	shoppèrent /ʃɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	shopperai /ʃɔ.pʁe/	shopperas /ʃɔ.pʁa/	shoppera /ʃɔ.pʁa/	shopperons /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/	shopperez /ʃɔ.pʁe/	shopperont /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	shopperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	shopperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	shopperait /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	shopperions /ʃɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	shopperiez /ʃɔ.pə.ʁje/	shopperaient /ʃɔ.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	shoppe /ʃɔp/	shoppes /ʃɔp/	shoppe /ʃɔp/	shoppions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/	shoppiez /ʃɔ.pje/	shoppent /ʃɔp/
	imperfect2	shoppasse /ʃɔ.pas/	shoppasses /ʃɔ.pas/	shoppât /ʃɔ.pa/	shoppassions /ʃɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	shoppassiez /ʃɔ.pa.sje/	shoppassent /ʃɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	shoppe /ʃɔp/	—	shoppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/	shoppez /ʃɔ.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 usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• shopping