repairer

English

Etymology

From repair +‎ -er.

Noun

repairer (plural repairers)

A person who repairs things.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:12:
  And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter IV, in Walden‎^[1], New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, published 1910, pages 151–2:
  The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.
- 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 168,
  Where the European city grid of right angles was overgrown and broken up by the purposeful tangle of African pursuits—the shortest point-to-point meander taken on foot between barbers and fruit-sellers, scribes and bicycle repairers—to be white was to feel invisible; only a sensuous self-assurance, while it lasted, could counter that.

Synonyms

repairperson; translator (historical)

Hyponyms

repairman, repairwoman

Translations

person who repairs

Arabic: مُصْلِح m (muṣliḥ)
Belarusian: рамо́нтнік m (ramóntnik), рамо́нтніца f (ramóntnica)
Czech: opravář (cs) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 修理者 (xiūlǐzhě), 修理工 (xiūlǐgōng)
Dutch: hersteller (nl) m, klusjesman (nl) m
Estonian: parandaja
Finnish: korjaaja (fi), korjausmies
French: réparateur (fr) m, réparatrice (fr) f, dépanneur (fr) m
German: Reparateur m, Reparateurin f
Hungarian: szerelő (hu), ……javító (hu), karbantartó (hu), műszerész (hu)
Italian: riparatore (it) m, riparatrice (it) f
Japanese: 修理工 (ja) (しゅうりこう, shūrikō), 修繕工 (しゅうぜんこう, shūzenkō)
Korean: 수리공(修理工) (surigong), 수선공(修繕工) (ko) (suseon'gong)
Norman: griyeux m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: reparatør m

Nynorsk: reparatør m
Polish: naprawiacz (pl) m, fachowiec (pl) m, monter (pl) m, konserwator (pl) m
Portuguese: reparador m
Romanian: reparator (ro) m, reparatoare f
Russian: ремо́нтник (ru) m (remóntnik), ремо́нтница (ru) f (remóntnica)
Scottish Gaelic: leasachair m
Spanish: reparador (es) m, reparadora (es) f
Swedish: reparatör (sv)
Turkish: tamirci (tr)
Ukrainian: ремо́нтник m (remóntnyk), ремо́нтниця f (remóntnycja)

Anagrams

Perreira, rare-ripe, rareripe

French

Etymology

From Old French repairier (“to return home”). Doublet of rapatrier.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/ ~ /ʁə.pe.ʁe/
Audio: (file)

Verb

repairer

(obsolete, chiefly of an animal) to go home

Conjugation

Conjugation of repairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	repairer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	repairant /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		repairé /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaires /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repairons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɔ̃/	repairez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁe/	repairent /ʁə.pɛʁ/
	imperfect	repairais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/	repairais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/	repairait /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/	repairions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁjɔ̃/	repairiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁje/	repairaient /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/
	past historic²	repairai /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁe/	repairas /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁa/	repaira /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁa/	repairâmes /ʁə.pɛ.ʁam/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁam/	repairâtes /ʁə.pɛ.ʁat/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁat/	repairèrent /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɛʁ/
	future	repairerai /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁe/	repaireras /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁa/	repairera /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁa/	repairerons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	repairerez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁe/	repaireront /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	repairerais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	repairerais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	repairerait /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	repairerions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	repaireriez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.ʁje/	repaireraient /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁə.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	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaires /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	repairions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁjɔ̃/	repairiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁje/	repairent /ʁə.pɛʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	repairasse /ʁə.pɛ.ʁas/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁas/	repairasses /ʁə.pɛ.ʁas/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁas/	repairât /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁa/	repairassions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	repairassiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁa.sje/	repairassent /ʁə.pɛ.ʁas/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	repaire /ʁə.pɛʁ/	—	repairons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁɔ̃/	repairez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

repaire (noun)

Old French

Verb

repairer

Alternative form of repairier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Conjugation of repairer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		repairer			avoir repairé
gerund		en repairant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		repairant
past participle		repairé
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	repair	repaires	repaire	repairons	repairez	repairent
	imperfect	repairoie, repaireie, repairoe, repaireve	repairoies, repaireies, repairoes, repaireves	repairoit, repaireit, repairot, repaireve	repairiiens, repairiens	repairiiez, repairiez	repairoient, repaireient, repairoent, repairevent
	preterite	repairai	repairas	repaira	repairames	repairastes	repairerent
	future	repairerai	repaireras	repairera	repairerons	repaireroiz, repairereiz, repairerez	repaireront
	conditional	repaireroie, repairereie	repaireroies, repairereies	repaireroit, repairereit	repaireriiens, repaireriens	repaireriiez, repaireriez	repaireroient, repairereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	repair	repairs	repairt	repairons	repairez	repairent
simple tenses	imperfect	repairasse	repairasses	repairast	repairissons, repairissiens	repairissoiz, repairissez, repairissiez	repairassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
imperative		—	repaire	—	repairons	repairez	—