footballer

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English

A Romanian footballer

Etymology

football +‎ -er

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfʊtbɔːlə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfʊtbɔːləɹ/

Noun

footballer (plural footballers)

  1. (soccer, UK) One who plays association football.
    • 2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259:
      It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.
  2. (Australia) Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae, so named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.

Synonyms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Verb

footballer

  1. To play football

Conjugation

Conjugation of footballer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple footballer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple footballant
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle footballé
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present footballe
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		footballes
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		footballe
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		footballons
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɔ̃/ 		footballez
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ 		footballent
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/
imperfect footballais
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ 		footballais
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ 		footballait
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/ 		footballions
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.ljɔ̃/ 		footballiez
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lje/ 		footballaient
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/
past historic2 footballai
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ 		footballas
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/ 		footballa
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/ 		footballâmes
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lam/ 		footballâtes
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lat/ 		footballèrent
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛʁ/
future footballerai
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁe/ 		footballeras
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁa/ 		footballera
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁa/ 		footballerons
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɔ̃/ 		footballerez
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁe/ 		footballeront
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɔ̃/
conditional footballerais
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/ 		footballerais
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/ 		footballerait
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/ 		footballerions
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		footballeriez
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lə.ʁje/ 		footballeraient
/fɔ.ɔt.bal.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 footballe
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		footballes
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		footballe
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		footballions
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.ljɔ̃/ 		footballiez
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lje/ 		footballent
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/
imperfect2 footballasse
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/ 		footballasses
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/ 		footballât
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/ 		footballassions
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.la.sjɔ̃/ 		footballassiez
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.la.sje/ 		footballassent
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — footballe
/fɔ.ɔt.bal/ 		— footballons
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɔ̃/ 		footballez
/fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/ 		—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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