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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French au pair.
Pronunciation
Noun
au pair (plural au pairs)
- A single girl (or, rarely, a boy), usually a foreigner, who helps a host family with childcare, housework, or both while staying as a guest with a host family, and generally receives a small allowance (or pocket money).
Translations
single girl or boy staying as a guest with a host family
- Catalan: au-pair (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (no exact term exists) 保姆 (zh) (bǎomǔ), 互惠生 (hùhuìshēng)
- Dutch: au pair (nl) f
- Finnish: au pair (fi)
- French: fille au pair (fr) f, garçon au pair m, jeune au pair m or f by sense
- German: Au-pair (de) n, Au-pair-Mädchen (de) n, Au-pair-Junge (de) m
- Icelandic: húshjálp (is) f
- Italian: au pair
- Japanese: オーペア (ōpea), オペア (opea)
- Korean: 오페어 (opeeo)
- Norwegian: au pair (no)
- Polish: au pair (pl)
- Portuguese: au pair f
- Russian: (no exact term exists) помо́щница по хозя́йству f (pomóščnica po xozjájstvu), ня́ня (ru) f (njánja), о-пе́р m or f (o-pɛ́r), о-пе́р m or f (o-pér) (indeclinable), о-пэ́р m or f (o-pɛ́r) (indeclinable)
- Scottish Gaelic: daltag f
- Spanish: de au pair
- Swedish: au pair (sv)
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See also
Finnish
Etymology
From French au pair.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯pɑi̯r/,
- Alternatively pronounced as in English.
Noun
au pair
- au pair
Declension
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
au pair (invariable)
- working for food and housing
1840, Honoré de Balzac, Pierrette:Sylvie Rogron fut envoyée à cent écus de pension en apprentissage rue Saint-Denis, chez des négociants nés à Provins. Deux ans après, elle était au pair : si elle ne gagnait rien, ses parents ne payaient plus rien pour son logis et sa nourriture. Voilà ce qu’on appelle être au pair, rue Saint-Denis.- Sylvie Rogron was sent (with six hundred francs for her board) as apprentice to certain shopkeepers originally from Provins and now settled in Paris in the rue Saint-Denis. Two years later she was "at par" as they say; she earned her own living; at any rate her parents paid nothing for her. That is what is called being "at par" in the rue Saint-Denis.
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology
From French au pair.
Noun
au pair f (plural au pairs)
- au pair (person helping a host family with childcare or housework)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French au pair.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o ˈpeɾ/
- Syllabification: au pair
Noun
au pair f (plural au pairs)
- au pair (person helping a host family with childcare or housework)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
From French au pair.
Noun
au pair c
- an au pair
Declension
References