importer
See also: importér
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
importer (plural importers)
- One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.
- India is the world's biggest importer of gold.
- The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?
- 1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports:
- Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
Derived terms
Translations
a person or company who imports goods into a country
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin importāre. The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian importare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
Audio: (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Verb
importer
- (transitive) to import
- (impersonal) to matter, to be relevant, to be important [with à ‘to someone’]
- En quoi cela m'importe-t-il ?
- Why does that matter to me?
- Que vous importe ?
- Why do you care?
- Il m'importe peu de savoir s'il a réussi.
- It doesn't matter to me whether he succeeded.
- Ses résultats importaient peu à ses parents.
- Her marks (UK) or grades (US) didn't matter much to her parents.
Conjugation
Conjugation of importer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | importer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | important /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | importé /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
importes /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
importons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
importez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/ |
importent /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | importais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
importais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
importait /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
importions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
importiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tje/ |
importaient /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | importai /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/ |
importas /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/ |
importa /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/ |
importâmes /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tam/ |
importâtes /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tat/ |
importèrent /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | importerai /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
importeras /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
importera /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
importerons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
importerez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
importeront /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | importerais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
importerais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
importerait /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
importerions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
importeriez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
importeraient /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.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 | importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
importes /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
importions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
importiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tje/ |
importent /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | importasse /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/ |
importasses /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/ |
importât /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/ |
importassions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
importassiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
importassent /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/ |
— | importons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
importez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/ |
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| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “importer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
importer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of importō
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Noun
importer m
- indefinite plural of import
Verb
importer
- imperative of importere