informer

English

Alternative forms

• informor (obsolete, rare)
• informour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

inform +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)

Noun

informer (plural informers)

1. One who informs someone else about something.
2. A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
3. One who informs, animates, or inspires.
   • 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson

     Nature, informer of the poet's art.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:informant

Translations

one who informs

• Catalan: informador (ca) m, informant (ca) m or f
• Czech: informátor m
• Finnish: tietolähde (fi)
• Galician: informante m or f
• German: Informant (de) m, Hinweisgeber (de) m, Tippgeber m, Zuträger (de) m
• Greek: πληροφοριοδότης (el) m (pliroforiodótis)

  Ancient: συκοφάντης m (sukophántēs)

• Hebrew: מלשין (malshin)
• Italian: informatore (it) m, divulgatore (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاگادار (agadar)

• Kyrgyz: билмелөөчү (bilmelööcü)
• Maori: kaiwhakaatu
• Polish: informator (pl) m
• Portuguese: informante (pt) m or f, informador m
• Russian: информа́тор (ru) m (informátor), осведоми́тель (ru) m (osvedomítelʹ), осведоми́тельница (ru) f (osvedomítelʹnica)
• Spanish: informador (es) m, informadora (es) f
• Tagalog: tagahimaton, impormador, impormadora

person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity

• Belarusian: дано́счык m (danósčyk), дано́счыца f (danósčyca)
• Bulgarian: доно́сник (bg) m (donósnik), доно́сница f (donósnica), доно́сничка f (donósnička)
• Czech: udavač (cs) m, udavačka f
• Finnish: tietolähde (fi), ilmiantaja (fi)
• German: Denunziant (de) m, Verpfeifer m, Ausplauderer m
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰 m (fērja)
• Greek: καταδότης (el) m (katadótis)
• Hebrew: מַלְשִׁין m (malshín), מוֹסֵר (he) m (mosér)
• Hungarian: besúgó (hu)
• Irish: brathadóir m
• Italian: informatore (it) m
• Latin: dēlātor m
• Old English: melda m
• Polish: informator (pl) m, informatorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: informante (pt) m or f, delator (pt) m
• Russian: доно́счик (ru) m (donósčik), доно́счица (ru) f (donósčica), стука́ч (ru) m (stukáč) (pejorative)
• Scottish Gaelic: brathadair m
• Spanish: informador (es) m, informadora (es) f,
• Tagalog: tagahimaton, impormador, impormadora
• Ukrainian: доно́щик (uk) m (donóščyk), доно́щиця f (donóščycja)
• Yiddish: מסור m (moser)

See also

• name names

Anagrams

• reinform, reniform

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfōrmāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/

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Verb

informer

1. to inform; to enlighten; to impart knowledge (upon)

   Il m’a informé de la situation présente.

   He has informed me of the present situation.

2. (reflexive) to inquire

Conjugation

Conjugation of informer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	informer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	informant /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		informé /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	informes /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	informons /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/	informez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/	informent /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/
	imperfect	informais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/	informais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/	informait /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/	informions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	informiez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mje/	informaient /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	informai /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/	informas /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma/	informa /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma/	informâmes /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mam/	informâtes /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mat/	informèrent /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɛʁ/
	future	informerai /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/	informeras /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/	informera /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/	informerons /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/	informerez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/	informeront /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	informerais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	informerais /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	informerait /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	informerions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	informeriez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.ʁje/	informeraient /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mə.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	informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	informes /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	informions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	informiez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mje/	informent /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/
	imperfect2	informasse /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mas/	informasses /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mas/	informât /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma/	informassions /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/	informassiez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sje/	informassent /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	informe /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/	—	informons /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/	informez /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me/	—
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).

Related terms

• information
• former

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

īnfōrmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnfōrmō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

informer

1. imperative of informere