footballer
English
Etymology
football + -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfʊtbɔːlə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈfʊtbɔːləɹ/
Noun
footballer (plural footballers)
- (soccer, UK) One who plays association football.
- 2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259:
- It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.
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- (Australia) Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae, so named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.
Synonyms
- (one who plays football): football player, soccer player (US, Canada)
Translations
one who plays football
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fut.bɔ.le/
Verb
footballer
- To play football
Conjugation
Conjugation of footballer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | footballer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | footballant /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | footballé /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | footballes /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | footballons /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɔ̃/ | footballez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ | footballent /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ |
imperfect | footballais /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ | footballais /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ | footballait /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ | footballions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.ljɔ̃/ | footballiez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lje/ | footballaient /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | footballai /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ | footballas /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/ | footballa /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/ | footballâmes /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lam/ | footballâtes /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lat/ | footballèrent /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛʁ/ | |
future | footballerai /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁe/ | footballeras /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁa/ | footballera /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁa/ | footballerons /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɔ̃/ | footballerez /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁe/ | footballeront /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | footballerais /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/ | footballerais /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/ | footballerait /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/ | footballerions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | footballeriez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lə.ʁje/ | footballeraient /fɔ.ɔt.bal.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 | footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | footballes /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | footballions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.ljɔ̃/ | footballiez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lje/ | footballent /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ |
imperfect2 | footballasse /fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/ | footballasses /fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/ | footballât /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/ | footballassions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la.sjɔ̃/ | footballassiez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la.sje/ | footballassent /fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/ | — | footballons /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɔ̃/ | footballez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ | — | |
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). |