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English
Etymology
From import + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
importer (plural importers)
- One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.
India is the world's biggest importer of gold.
The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?
1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports:Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
Translations
a person or company who imports goods into a country
- Albanian: importues (sq) m
- Arabic: مُسْتَوْرِد m (mustawrid), مُسْتَوْرِدَة f (mustawrida)
- Armenian: ներմուծող (nermucoġ)
- Azerbaijani: idxalçı
- Belarusian: імпарцёр m (imparcjór)
- Bulgarian: вноси́тел m (vnosítel)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 進口商 / 进口商 (zeon3 hau2 soeng1)
- Mandarin: 進口商 / 进口商 (zh) (jìnkǒu shāng)
- Czech: dovozce m, importér (cs) m
- Danish: importør c
- Dutch: importeur (nl) m
- Estonian: importija
- Finnish: maahantuoja (fi)
- French: importateur (fr) m, importatrice (fr) f
- Georgian: იმპორტიორი (imṗorṭiori)
- German: Importeur (de) m
- Greek: εισαγωγέας (el) m (eisagogéas)
- Hindi: आयातक m (āyātak), आयातकर्ता m (āyātkartā), इम्पॉर्टर m (impŏrṭar)
- Hungarian: importőr (hu)
- Icelandic: innflytjandi (is) m
- Indonesian: importir (id)
- Irish: allmhaireoir m, iompórtálaí m
- Italian: importatore (it) m, importatrice (it) f
- Japanese: 輸入業者 (ゆにゅうぎょうしゃ, yunyū gyōsha)
- Kazakh: импорттаушы (importtauşy)
- Khmer: អាហារិន (ʼaahaarɨn), ឈ្មួញនាំចូល (chmuəñ nŏəm coul)
- Korean: 수입업자(輸入業者) (su'ibeopja), 수입사(輸入社) (su'ipsa)
- Kyrgyz: импортёр (importyor)
- Lao: ຜູ້ນໍາເຂົ້າ (phū nam khao)
- Latvian: importētājs m
- Lithuanian: importuotojas m
- Macedonian: увозник m (uvoznik)
- Manx: kionneyder stiagh m
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: импортлогч (mn) (importlogč)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: importør m
- Nynorsk: importør m
- Persian: وارِدکُنَندِه (vâredkonande)
- Polish: importer (pl) m
- Portuguese: importador m (person), importadora f (person or company)
- Romanian: importator (ro) m
- Russian: импортёр (ru) m (importjór)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у́вознӣк m
- Roman: úvoznīk (sh) m
- Slovak: dovozca m, importér m
- Slovene: uvoznik m
- Spanish: importador (es) m
- Swedish: importör (sv) c
- Tagalog: tagaangkat
- Tajik: импортёр (importyor), воридкунанда (voridkunanda)
- Tatar: импортчы (importçı)
- Thai: ผู้นำเข้า (pûu-nam-kâo)
- Turkish: ithalatçı (tr)
- Turkmen: importçy
- Ukrainian: імпорте́р (uk) m (importér)
- Urdu: اِمْپوْرٹَر (imporṭar)
- Uyghur: ئىمپورتچى (importchi), ئىمپورتېر (importër)
- Uzbek: importyor (uz), importchi
- Vietnamese: người nhập khẩu (person), cơ quan nhập khẩu (organisation), nước nhập khẩu (country)
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See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin importāre. The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian importare.
Pronunciation
Verb
importer
- (transitive) to import
- (impersonal) to matter, to be relevant, to be important
En quoi cela m'importe-t-il ?- Why does that matter to me?
Que vous importe ?- Why do you care?
Il m'importe peu de savoir s'il a réussi.- It doesn't matter to me whether he succeeded.
Ses résultats importaient peu à ses parents.- Her marks (UK) or grades (US) didn't matter much to her parents.
Conjugation
importer
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avoir + past participle
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important /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
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ayant + past participle
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importé /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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importes /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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importons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/
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importez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
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importent /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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imperfect
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importais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/
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importais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/
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importait /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/
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importions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/
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importiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tje/
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importaient /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/
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past historic2
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importai /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
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importas /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/
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importa /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/
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importâmes /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tam/
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importâtes /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tat/
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importèrent /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
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future
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importerai /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/
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importeras /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/
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importera /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/
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importerons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
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importerez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/
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importeront /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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importerais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
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importerais /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
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importerait /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
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importerions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/
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importeriez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/
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importeraient /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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importes /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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importions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/
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importiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tje/
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importent /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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imperfect2
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importasse /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/
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importasses /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/
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importât /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta/
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importassions /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/
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importassiez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sje/
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importassent /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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importe /ɛ̃.pɔʁt/
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—
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importons /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/
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importez /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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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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Derived terms
See also
Further reading
Latin
Verb
importer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of importō
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
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Noun
importer m
- indefinite plural of import
Verb
importer
- imperative of importere