staffer

English

Etymology

From staff +‎ -er.

Noun

staffer (plural staffers)

1. A member of a staff; an employee.

   The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.

   • 2025 April 25, Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.

   • 2026 February 7, Richard Luscombe, Shrai Popat, Robert Mackey, “Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     But then around midday on Friday the post was taken down from Trump’s Truth Social account and the White House claimed that posting it had been a mistake by a staffer.

Translations

member of a staff

• French: membre du personnel m, employé (fr) m, employée (fr) f
• Galician: empregado (gl) m, empregada f
• German: Mitarbeiter (de) m
• Russian: шта́тный сотру́дник m (štátnyj sotrúdnik), шта́тная сотру́дница f (štátnaja sotrúdnica)

Anagrams

• affrets, restaff

French

Etymology

From staff +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.fe/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

staffer

1. (transitive) to cover with staff (the building material)

Conjugation

Conjugation of staffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	staffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	staffant /sta.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		staffé /sta.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	staffe /staf/	staffes /staf/	staffe /staf/	staffons /sta.fɔ̃/	staffez /sta.fe/	staffent /staf/
	imperfect	staffais /sta.fɛ/	staffais /sta.fɛ/	staffait /sta.fɛ/	staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/	staffiez /sta.fje/	staffaient /sta.fɛ/
	past historic2	staffai /sta.fe/	staffas /sta.fa/	staffa /sta.fa/	staffâmes /sta.fam/	staffâtes /sta.fat/	staffèrent /sta.fɛʁ/
	future	stafferai /sta.fʁe/	stafferas /sta.fʁa/	staffera /sta.fʁa/	stafferons /sta.fʁɔ̃/	stafferez /sta.fʁe/	stafferont /sta.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/	stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/	stafferait /sta.fʁɛ/	stafferions /sta.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	stafferiez /sta.fə.ʁje/	stafferaient /sta.fʁɛ/
(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	staffe /staf/	staffes /staf/	staffe /staf/	staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/	staffiez /sta.fje/	staffent /staf/
	imperfect2	staffasse /sta.fas/	staffasses /sta.fas/	staffât /sta.fa/	staffassions /sta.fa.sjɔ̃/	staffassiez /sta.fa.sje/	staffassent /sta.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	staffe /staf/	—	staffons /sta.fɔ̃/	staffez /sta.fe/	—
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).

Further reading

• “staffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012