trapper
English
Etymology
trap + -er
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæpɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Noun
trapper (plural trappers)
- One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189:
- The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.
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- (mining) A (usually, child) worker who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
- An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
- (slang) A drug dealer. See also trap house.
- (slang) A performer of trap music.
Translations
one who traps animals
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Danish
Noun
trapper c
- indefinite plural of trappe
Dutch
Etymology
From trappen + -er.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑpər
Noun
trapper m (plural trappers, diminutive trappertje n)
- bicycle pedal
- Synonym: pedaal
French
Etymology
trappe + -er
Verb
trapper
- to trap (hunt using traps)
Conjugation
Conjugation of trapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trapper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trappant /tʁa.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trappé /tʁa.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | trappe /tʁap/ | trappes /tʁap/ | trappe /tʁap/ | trappons /tʁa.pɔ̃/ | trappez /tʁa.pe/ | trappent /tʁap/ |
| imperfect | trappais /tʁa.pɛ/ | trappais /tʁa.pɛ/ | trappait /tʁa.pɛ/ | trappions /tʁa.pjɔ̃/ | trappiez /tʁa.pje/ | trappaient /tʁa.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trappai /tʁa.pe/ | trappas /tʁa.pa/ | trappa /tʁa.pa/ | trappâmes /tʁa.pam/ | trappâtes /tʁa.pat/ | trappèrent /tʁa.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | trapperai /tʁa.pʁe/ | trapperas /tʁa.pʁa/ | trappera /tʁa.pʁa/ | trapperons /tʁa.pʁɔ̃/ | trapperez /tʁa.pʁe/ | trapperont /tʁa.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trapperais /tʁa.pʁɛ/ | trapperais /tʁa.pʁɛ/ | trapperait /tʁa.pʁɛ/ | trapperions /tʁa.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | trapperiez /tʁa.pə.ʁje/ | trapperaient /tʁa.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | trappe /tʁap/ | trappes /tʁap/ | trappe /tʁap/ | trappions /tʁa.pjɔ̃/ | trappiez /tʁa.pje/ | trappent /tʁap/ |
| imperfect2 | trappasse /tʁa.pas/ | trappasses /tʁa.pas/ | trappât /tʁa.pa/ | trappassions /tʁa.pa.sjɔ̃/ | trappassiez /tʁa.pa.sje/ | trappassent /tʁa.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trappe /tʁap/ | — | trappons /tʁa.pɔ̃/ | trappez /tʁa.pe/ | — | |
| 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
- trappage
Further reading
- “trapper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
trapper m or f
- indefinite plural of trapp
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
trapper f
- indefinite plural of trapp