rater

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From rate (“to appraise”) +‎ -er.

Noun

rater (plural raters)

  1. One who provides a rating or assessment.
    The three raters agreed on the score.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From rate (“to scold; berate”) +‎ -er.

Noun

rater (plural raters)

  1. One who rates or scolds.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Emerged in the early 1700s, likely originally in reference to a firearm misfiring, from the expression (1651) prendre un rat (“to misfire”, literally “to get a rat”), from rat (“rat”). More at rat.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁa.te/
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Verb

rater

  1. (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing) [first att. 1718]
    Il va rater le car. ― He's going to miss the bus.
  2. (transitive, informal) to screw up; to mess up [first att. 1715]
    J’ai raté ma vie. ― I screwed up my life.
  3. (intransitive, of a weapon) to fail to fire; to misfire [first att. 1718]
    Le revolver rata. ― The revolver misfired.
  4. (intransitive, informal) to fail [first att. 1722]
    J’ignore pourquoi votre projet a raté. ― I don't know why your project failed.

Conjugation
Conjugation of rater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple rater
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple ratant
/ʁa.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle raté
/ʁa.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present rate
/ʁat/		 rates
/ʁat/		 rate
/ʁat/		 ratons
/ʁa.tɔ̃/		 ratez
/ʁa.te/		 ratent
/ʁat/
imperfect ratais
/ʁa.tɛ/		 ratais
/ʁa.tɛ/		 ratait
/ʁa.tɛ/		 rations
/ʁa.tjɔ̃/		 ratiez
/ʁa.tje/		 rataient
/ʁa.tɛ/
past historic2 ratai
/ʁa.te/		 ratas
/ʁa.ta/		 rata
/ʁa.ta/		 ratâmes
/ʁa.tam/		 ratâtes
/ʁa.tat/		 ratèrent
/ʁa.tɛʁ/
future raterai
/ʁa.tʁe/		 rateras
/ʁa.tʁa/		 ratera
/ʁa.tʁa/		 raterons
/ʁa.tʁɔ̃/		 raterez
/ʁa.tʁe/		 rateront
/ʁa.tʁɔ̃/
conditional raterais
/ʁa.tʁɛ/		 raterais
/ʁa.tʁɛ/		 raterait
/ʁa.tʁɛ/		 raterions
/ʁa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 rateriez
/ʁa.tə.ʁje/		 rateraient
/ʁa.tʁɛ/
(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 rate
/ʁat/		 rates
/ʁat/		 rate
/ʁat/		 rations
/ʁa.tjɔ̃/		 ratiez
/ʁa.tje/		 ratent
/ʁat/
imperfect2 ratasse
/ʁa.tas/		 ratasses
/ʁa.tas/		 ratât
/ʁa.ta/		 ratassions
/ʁa.ta.sjɔ̃/		 ratassiez
/ʁa.ta.sje/		 ratassent
/ʁa.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — rate
/ʁat/		 — ratons
/ʁa.tɔ̃/		 ratez
/ʁa.te/		 —
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).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Catalan: ratar
  • → Haitian Creole: rate

Further reading

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

rater

  1. to yield (a return)

Conjugation
  • Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of rater (first conjugation)
infinitive rater, raté
auxiliary verb avei gerund ratan
past participle raté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie tu el / ela nos vos ei / eles
present rate, rateie rates, rateies rata, rateia, ratea raton rateis rata, rateia
imperfect ratove ratoves ratova ratovan ratovais ratova
future rataré rataras ratarà rataron ratareis ratarà
subjunctive che ie che tu che el / ela che nos che vos che ei / eles
present rate, rateie rates, rateies rate, rateie raton rateis rate
imperfect ratasse ratasses ratassa ratassan ratassais ratassa
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— rata, rateia — raton ratede —

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rater m

  1. indefinite plural of rate
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