rater
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From rate (“to appraise”) + -er.
Noun
rater (plural raters)
- One who provides a rating or assessment.
- The three raters agreed on the score.
Derived terms
- interrater
Translations
one who rates or assesses
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Etymology 2
From rate (“to scold; berate”) + -er.
Noun
rater (plural raters)
- One who rates or scolds.
Related terms
- berate
Anagrams
- Arter, Terra, arrêt, arter, retar, tarre, terra
French
Etymology
From earlier rater (“to miss, fail to hit, fail, complete unsuccessfully", in reference to a weapon, "to misfire, fail to fire”), from the expression (1651) prendre un rat (“to misfire”, literally “to get a rat”), from rat (“rat”). More at rat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.te/
audio (file)
Verb
rater
- (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing)
- Il va rater le car
- He's going to miss the bus
- (intransitive) to fail
- (transitive, informal) to screw up; to mess up
Conjugation
Conjugation of rater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ratant /ʁa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | raté /ʁa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rate /ʁat/ | rates /ʁat/ | rate /ʁat/ | ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/ | ratez /ʁa.te/ | ratent /ʁat/ |
| imperfect | ratais /ʁa.tɛ/ | ratais /ʁa.tɛ/ | ratait /ʁa.tɛ/ | rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/ | ratiez /ʁa.tje/ | rataient /ʁa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ratai /ʁa.te/ | ratas /ʁa.ta/ | rata /ʁa.ta/ | ratâmes /ʁa.tam/ | ratâtes /ʁa.tat/ | ratèrent /ʁa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | raterai /ʁa.tʁe/ | rateras /ʁa.tʁa/ | ratera /ʁa.tʁa/ | raterons /ʁa.tʁɔ̃/ | raterez /ʁa.tʁe/ | rateront /ʁa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | raterais /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | raterais /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | raterait /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | raterions /ʁa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rateriez /ʁa.tə.ʁje/ | rateraient /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rate /ʁat/ | rates /ʁat/ | rate /ʁat/ | rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/ | ratiez /ʁa.tje/ | ratent /ʁat/ |
| imperfect2 | ratasse /ʁa.tas/ | ratasses /ʁa.tas/ | ratât /ʁa.ta/ | ratassions /ʁa.ta.sjɔ̃/ | ratassiez /ʁa.ta.sje/ | ratassent /ʁa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rate /ʁat/ | — | ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/ | ratez /ʁa.te/ | — | |
| 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
- ne pas en rater une
- raté
- rater le coche
Descendants
- → Catalan: ratar
- → Haitian Creole: rate
Further reading
- “rater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- arrêt, errât, terra
Ladin
Verb
rater
- to yield (a return)
Conjugation
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of rater (first conjugation)
| infinitive | rater, raté | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | avei | gerund | ratan | |||
| past participle | raté | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | ie | tu | el / ela | nos | vos | ei / eles |
| present | rate, rateie | rates, rateies | rata, rateia, ratea | raton | rateis | rata, rateia |
| imperfect | ratove | ratoves | ratova | ratovan | ratovais | ratova |
| future | rataré | rataras | ratarà | rataron | ratareis | ratarà |
| subjunctive | che ie | che tu | che el / ela | che nos | che vos | che ei / eles |
| present | rate, rateie | rates, rateies | rate, rateie | raton | rateis | rate |
| imperfect | ratasse | ratasses | ratassa | ratassan | ratassais | ratassa |
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – |
| — | rata, rateia | — | raton | ratede | — | |
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
rater m
- indefinite plural of rate