surfer

surfer

See also: Surfer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Middle English suffe?
English suff?
English surf
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English surfer

    From surf + -er.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)/
    • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Noun

    surfer (plural surfers)

    1. A person who rides a surfboard.
      • 1965, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 28:
        When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]
      • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:
        A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
    2. A person who surfs the Internet.
    3. (obsolete) A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → German: Surfer
    • → Japanese: サーファー (sāfā)
    • → Korean: 서퍼 (seopeo)
    • → Polish: surfer

    Translations

    French

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English surf + -er.

    Pronunciation

    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).

    Further reading

    Polish

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Middle English suffe?
    English suff?
    English surf
    Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
    Proto-Italic *-āsjos
    Latin -āriusnom.
    Latin -āriusbor.
    Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
    Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
    Old English -ere
    Middle English -ere
    English -er
    English surferubor.
    Polish surfer

      Unadapted borrowing from English surfer.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈsɛr.fɛr/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -ɛrfɛr
      • Syllabification: sur‧fer

      Noun

      surfer m pers (female equivalent surferka)

      1. (surfing) surfer (person who rides a surfboard)

      Declension

      Declension of surfer
      singular plural
      nominative surfer surferzy/surfery (deprecative)
      genitive surfera surferów
      dative surferowi surferom
      accusative surfera surferów
      instrumental surferem surferami
      locative surferze surferach
      vocative surferze surferzy
      adjective
      • surfingowy
      noun
      verbs
      • surfingować impf
      • surfować impf

      Further reading

      • “surfer”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “surfer”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)
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