voter

voter

See also: votër and v́otĕr

English

Etymology

vote +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊtɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

voter (plural voters)

1. Someone who votes.
   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎:

     The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.

   In your opinion, should we allow 16 and 17 year olds to become voters?

Derived terms

• faggot voter
• floating voter
• ghost voter
• nonvoter
• outvoter
• swing voter
• votership

 

Translations

one who votes

Albanian: votues (sq) m Arabic: مُصَوِّت‎ m (muṣawwit), نَاخِب‎ m (nāḵib) Gulf Arabic: ناخب‎ m (nāḵib) Armenian: ընտրող (hy) (əntroł) Asturian: votante m or f Azerbaijani: seçici Belarusian: вы́баршчык m (výbarščyk), абіра́льнік m (abirálʹnik), выбіра́льнік m (vybirálʹnik) Bengali: ভোটদাতা (bhoṭdata), ভোটার (bhoṭar) Bulgarian: избира́тел (bg) m (izbirátel), гласоподава́тел m (glasopodavátel) Burmese: မဲဆန္ဒရှင် (my) (mai:hcanda.hrang) Catalan: votant (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 投票者 (zh) (tóupiàozhě), 選民／选民 (zh) (xuǎnmín), 選舉人／选举人 (zh) (xuǎnjǔrén) Cornish: voter m, votores f Czech: volič (cs) m Danish: vælger (da) c, vælgerinde c Dutch: stemmer (nl) m, stemster f Estonian: hääletaja Finnish: äänestäjä (fi) French: votant (fr) m, votante (fr) f Galician: votante m or f Georgian: ამომრჩეველი (amomrčeveli) German: Wähler (de) m, Wählerin (de) f Greek: ψηφοφόρος (el) m or f (psifofóros) Hebrew: מַצְבִּיעַ‎ m (matsbi'a), בּוֹחֵר‎ m (bokher) Hindi: मतदाता m (matdātā), निर्वाचक (hi) m (nirvācak), वोटर (hi) m (voṭar) Hungarian: szavazó (hu) Hunsrik: Weeler m, Weelerin f Indonesian: pemilih (id) Irish: vótálaí m, vóitéir m, vótaeir m, vótóir m Italian: elettore (it) m, elettrice (it) f Japanese: 投票者 (とうひょうしゃ, tōhyōsha), 選挙人 (せんきょにん, senkyonin) Kazakh: сайлаушы (sailauşy) Khmer: អ្នកបោះឆ្នោត (nĕək bɑh chnaot) Korean: 유권자 (ko) (yugwonja), 투표자 (ko) (tupyoja) Kyrgyz: шайлоочу (ky) (şaylooçu) Lao: ຜູ້ເລືອກຕັ້ງ (phū lư̄ak tang) Latin: suffrāgātor m Latvian: vēlētājs m, balsotājs m Lithuanian: rinkėjas m Macedonian: гласач m (glasač) Malay: pengundi Maori: kaipōti Mongolian: сонгогч (mn) (songogč) Norman: voteux m Norwegian: Bokmål: velger m Nynorsk: veljar m Persian: رأی‌دهنده‎ (fa) (ra'y-dahande) Plautdietsch: Stemm f Polish: wyborca (pl) m Portuguese: votante (pt) m or f, eleitor (pt) m, eleitora (pt) f Romanian: votant (ro) m, alegător (ro) m Russian: избира́тель (ru) m (izbirátelʹ), избира́тельница (ru) f (izbirátelʹnica), голосу́ющий (ru) m (golosújuščij), голосу́ющая (ru) f (golosújuščaja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гла̀са̄ч m Roman: glàsāč (sh) m Slovak: volič m Slovene: volivec m, volivka f, glasovalec m, glasovalka f Spanish: votante (es) m or f Swahili: mpigakura (sw) Swedish: väljare (sv) c, väljarinna c, valman c Tagalog: botante Tajik: интихобкунанда (intixobkunanda) Thai: ผู้เลือกตั้ง (pûu-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng) Turkish: seçmen (tr), saylavcı Turkmen: saýlawçy, saýlaýjy Ukrainian: ви́борець m (výborecʹ), обира́льник m (obyrálʹnyk), голосу́ючий m (holosújučyj) Urdu: رائے دہندہ‎ (rā'ey-dahanda), ووٹر‎ m (voṭar) Uyghur: سايلىغۇچى‎ (saylighuchi) Uzbek: saylovchi (uz) Vietnamese: cử tri (vi) Volapük: vögodan (vo) Yiddish: וויילער‎ m (veyler) Zazaki: reywan c

See also

• elector

Anagrams

• orvet, overt, trove

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Bavarian

Alternative forms

• votar (Timau)

Noun

voter

1. (Sappada, Sauris) father

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Cornish

Noun

voter m (plural votoryon)

1. (male) voter

Related terms

• votores (gender)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.te/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: votai, voté, votée, votées, votés, votez

Verb

voter

1. to vote

   Tu vas voter pour qui ?

   Who are you going to vote for?

Conjugation

Conjugation of voter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	voter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	votant /vɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		voté /vɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vote /vɔt/	votes /vɔt/	vote /vɔt/	votons /vɔ.tɔ̃/	votez /vɔ.te/	votent /vɔt/
	imperfect	votais /vɔ.tɛ/	votais /vɔ.tɛ/	votait /vɔ.tɛ/	votions /vɔ.tjɔ̃/	votiez /vɔ.tje/	votaient /vɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	votai /vɔ.te/	votas /vɔ.ta/	vota /vɔ.ta/	votâmes /vɔ.tam/	votâtes /vɔ.tat/	votèrent /vɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	voterai /vɔ.tʁe/	voteras /vɔ.tʁa/	votera /vɔ.tʁa/	voterons /vɔ.tʁɔ̃/	voterez /vɔ.tʁe/	voteront /vɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voterais /vɔ.tʁɛ/	voterais /vɔ.tʁɛ/	voterait /vɔ.tʁɛ/	voterions /vɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	voteriez /vɔ.tə.ʁje/	voteraient /vɔ.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	vote /vɔt/	votes /vɔt/	vote /vɔt/	votions /vɔ.tjɔ̃/	votiez /vɔ.tje/	votent /vɔt/
	imperfect2	votasse /vɔ.tas/	votasses /vɔ.tas/	votât /vɔ.ta/	votassions /vɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	votassiez /vɔ.ta.sje/	votassent /vɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vote /vɔt/	—	votons /vɔ.tɔ̃/	votez /vɔ.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: 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

• “voter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• orvet, torve, votre, vôtre

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English to vote.

Verb

voter (gerund vot'tie)

1. (Jersey) to vote

Derived terms

• voter au scrutîn (“to ballot”)
• voteux (“voter”)
• vot'tie (“voting”)