carer

English

Etymology

care +‎ -er

Pronunciation

Noun

carer (plural carers)

  1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.
    Have you thought of a job as a carer for disabled people?
    He retired early to be a full-time carer for his wife / husband.
    • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:
      He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.
    • '2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 211:
      Her business was a one-woman outfit that offered accredited first-aid training courses for teachers, carers, sports coaches, antenatal classes, workplace groups, and the police; the classes ranged from basic defibrillator training to what was now called psychological first aid.

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French

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Verb

carer

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of carrer

Conjugation
Conjugation of carer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple carer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple carant
/ka.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle caré
/ka.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present care
/kaʁ/		 cares
/kaʁ/		 care
/kaʁ/		 carons
/ka.ʁɔ̃/		 carez
/ka.ʁe/		 carent
/kaʁ/
imperfect carais
/ka.ʁɛ/		 carais
/ka.ʁɛ/		 carait
/ka.ʁɛ/		 carions
/ka.ʁjɔ̃/		 cariez
/ka.ʁje/		 caraient
/ka.ʁɛ/
past historic2 carai
/ka.ʁe/		 caras
/ka.ʁa/		 cara
/ka.ʁa/		 carâmes
/ka.ʁam/		 carâtes
/ka.ʁat/		 carèrent
/ka.ʁɛʁ/
future carerai
/ka.ʁə.ʁe/		 careras
/ka.ʁə.ʁa/		 carera
/ka.ʁə.ʁa/		 carerons
/ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/		 carerez
/ka.ʁə.ʁe/		 careront
/ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional carerais
/ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 carerais
/ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 carerait
/ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 carerions
/ka.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/		 careriez
/ka.ʁə.ʁje/		 careraient
/ka.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 care
/kaʁ/		 cares
/kaʁ/		 care
/kaʁ/		 carions
/ka.ʁjɔ̃/		 cariez
/ka.ʁje/		 carent
/kaʁ/
imperfect2 carasse
/ka.ʁas/		 carasses
/ka.ʁas/		 carât
/ka.ʁa/		 carassions
/ka.ʁa.sjɔ̃/		 carassiez
/ka.ʁa.sje/		 carassent
/ka.ʁas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — care
/kaʁ/		 — carons
/ka.ʁɔ̃/		 carez
/ka.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).

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkarɛr/, (South Wales also) /ˈkaːrɛr/

Verb

carer

  1. (literary) impersonal subjunctive/imperative of caru

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
carer garer ngharer charer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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