vader

See also: Vader, vàder, vâder, väder, and våder

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vader, from Middle Dutch vader, from Old Dutch fadar, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːdər/

Noun

vader (plural vaders or vadere)

1. father

   Lukas is jou vader.

   Lukas is your father.

Coordinate terms

• moeder

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vāder, from Old Dutch fadar, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaː.dər/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: va‧der
• Rhymes: -aːdər

Noun

vader m (plural vaders or gevaderen, diminutive vadertje n, feminine moeder)

1. father

   Luuk, ik ben je vader.

   Luuk, I am your father.

2. forefather

   Dit boek beschrijft de daden der vaderen.

   This books describes the doings of our forefathers.

Derived terms

• aartsvader
• grootvader
• huisvader
• pleegvader
• schoonvader
• stiefvader
• vaderfiguur
• vaderland
• vaderlijk
• vadermoord
• vaderschap
• voorvader

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vader
• Jersey Dutch: vâder

Further reading

• “vader” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Anagrams

• daver

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Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German vadder.

Noun

vader (genitive vaderi, partitive vaderit)

1. godparent

Declension

Inflection of vader (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	vader	vaderid
accusative	vaderi	vaderid
genitive	vaderi	vaderite
partitive	vaderit	vadereid
illative	vaderisse	vaderitesse vadereisse
inessive	vaderis	vaderites vadereis
elative	vaderist	vaderitest vadereist
allative	vaderile	vaderitele vadereile
adessive	vaderil	vaderitel vadereil
ablative	vaderilt	vaderitelt vadereilt
translative	vaderiks	vaderiteks vadereiks
terminative	vaderini	vaderiteni
essive	vaderina	vaderitena
abessive	vaderita	vaderiteta
comitative	vaderiga	vaderitega

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.de/
• Homophones: vadai, vadé, vadée, vadées, vadés, vadez

Etymology 1

From Acadian French, from earlier French, from Latin vadere.

Verb

vader

1. (nonstandard, Louisiana, Cajun French) Alternative form of aller, to go

   Il vadait dans la prairie avec son pirogue et il attendait des pièges. ― He would go into the prairie with his pirogue and he would wait on the traps.

Conjugation

Conjugation of vader (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vader
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vadant
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vadé
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	va / vas	vas	va	vadons	vadez	vont
	imperfect	vadais	vadais	vadait	vadions	vadiez	vadaient
	past historic2	vadai	vadas	vada	vadâmes	vadâtes	vadèrent
	future	vadrai	vadras	vadra	vadrons	vadrez	vadront
	conditional	vadrais	vadrais	vadrait	vadrions	vadriez	vadraient
(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	vade	vades	vade	vadions	vadiez	vadent
	imperfect2	vadasse	vadasses	vadât	vadassions	vadassiez	vadassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	va	—	vadons	vadez	—
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 the 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).

Usage notes

• In Cajun French, the conjugations of vader are used interchangeably with aller and its conjugations.

References

• The law-French dictionary alphabetically digested, John Adam's copy

Etymology 2

From either Latin vadere or a shortening of s'évader.

Verb

vader

1. (Switzerland) to get away

Conjugation

Conjugation of vader (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vader
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vadant /va.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vadé /va.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vade /vad/	vades /vad/	vade /vad/	vadons /va.dɔ̃/	vadez /va.de/	vadent /vad/
	imperfect	vadais /va.dɛ/	vadais /va.dɛ/	vadait /va.dɛ/	vadions /va.djɔ̃/	vadiez /va.dje/	vadaient /va.dɛ/
	past historic2	vadai /va.de/	vadas /va.da/	vada /va.da/	vadâmes /va.dam/	vadâtes /va.dat/	vadèrent /va.dɛʁ/
	future	vaderai /va.dʁe/	vaderas /va.dʁa/	vadera /va.dʁa/	vaderons /va.dʁɔ̃/	vaderez /va.dʁe/	vaderont /va.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vaderais /va.dʁɛ/	vaderais /va.dʁɛ/	vaderait /va.dʁɛ/	vaderions /va.də.ʁjɔ̃/	vaderiez /va.də.ʁje/	vaderaient /va.dʁɛ/
(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	vade /vad/	vades /vad/	vade /vad/	vadions /va.djɔ̃/	vadiez /va.dje/	vadent /vad/
	imperfect2	vadasse /va.das/	vadasses /va.das/	vadât /va.da/	vadassions /va.da.sjɔ̃/	vadassiez /va.da.sje/	vadassent /va.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vade /vad/	—	vadons /va.dɔ̃/	vadez /va.de/	—
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 the 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).

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Interlingua

Etymology

Latin vadere

Verb

vader

1. to go

Conjugation

    Conjugation of vader

infinitive		vader
participle		present	perfect
		vadente	vadite
active		simple	perfect
	present	vade, va	ha vadite
	past	vadeva	habeva vadite
	future	vadera	habera vadite
	conditional	vaderea	haberea vadite
	imperative	vade
passive	present	simple	perfect
		es vadite	ha essite vadite
	past	esseva vadite	habeva essite vadite
	future	essera vadite	habera essite vadite
	conditional	esserea vadite	haberea essite vadite
	imperative	sia vadite

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Latin

Verb

vader

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vadō

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch fadar, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Noun

vāder m

1. father

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: vader
  • Afrikaans: vader
  • Jersey Dutch: vâder
• Limburgish: vajer, vader

Further reading

• “vader”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek‎^[1], 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J., “vader”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek‎^[2], The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1885–1929, →ISBN

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Middle English

Noun

vader

1. Alternative form of fader

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vader

1. present of vade

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vader

1. present of vada and vade

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin vadere

Verb

vader

1. Alternative form of anar to go.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Swedish

Noun

vader

1. indefinite plural of vad

Anagrams

• varde, vreda