surfer

See also: Surfer

English

Etymology

surf +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)fə(r)

Noun

surfer (plural surfers)

1. A person who rides a surfboard.
2. A person who surfs the Internet.
3. A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).

Synonyms

• surf rider (obsolete)

Derived terms

• silver surfer
• surfie

Translations

person who rides a surfboard

• Basque: surflari (eu)
• Catalan: surfista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: surfař (cs) m
• Finnish: lainelautailija (fi)
• French: surfeur (fr) m, surfeuse (fr) f
• Galician: surfista m or f
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• German: Wellenreiter m
• Hebrew: גּוֹלֵשׁ (he) m (golésh)
• Italian: surfer m or f
• Maori: kaiwhakahekeheke
• Portuguese: surfista (pt)
• Russian: серфинги́ст (ru) m (serfingíst)
• Spanish: surfista m or f, surfero m (chiefly US)
• Thai: นักโต้คลื่น (nák-dtôo-klʉ̂ʉn)

person who surfs the Internet

• Finnish: surffaaja (fi)
• French: internaute (fr) m or f
• Italian: navigatore (it) m, internauta (it)
• Malay: pelayar
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: internauta (pl) m, surfer (pl) m
• Portuguese: internauta (pt)
• Spanish: internauta (es)

surf scoter — see surf scoter

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French

Etymology

From English surf + -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœʁ.fe/

• Audio:

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Verb

surfer

1. to surf (on a wave)
2. to surf (to browse the internet)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surfer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surfer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surfant /syʁ.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surfé /syʁ.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surfe /syʁf/	surfes /syʁf/	surfe /syʁf/	surfons /syʁ.fɔ̃/	surfez /syʁ.fe/	surfent /syʁf/
	imperfect	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	surfait /syʁ.fɛ/	surfions /syʁ.fjɔ̃/	surfiez /syʁ.fje/	surfaient /syʁ.fɛ/
	past historic2	surfai /syʁ.fe/	surfas /syʁ.fa/	surfa /syʁ.fa/	surfâmes /syʁ.fam/	surfâtes /syʁ.fat/	surfèrent /syʁ.fɛʁ/
	future	surferai /syʁ.fə.ʁe/	surferas /syʁ.fə.ʁa/	surfera /syʁ.fə.ʁa/	surferons /syʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/	surferez /syʁ.fə.ʁe/	surferont /syʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surferais /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferais /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferait /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferions /syʁ.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	surferiez /syʁ.fə.ʁje/	surferaient /syʁ.fə.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	surfe /syʁf/	surfes /syʁf/	surfe /syʁf/	surfions /syʁ.fjɔ̃/	surfiez /syʁ.fje/	surfent /syʁf/
	imperfect2	surfasse /syʁ.fas/	surfasses /syʁ.fas/	surfât /syʁ.fa/	surfassions /syʁ.fa.sjɔ̃/	surfassiez /syʁ.fa.sje/	surfassent /syʁ.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surfe /syʁf/	—	surfons /syʁ.fɔ̃/	surfez /syʁ.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).

Related terms

• surfeur

Further reading

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