trader

See also: Trader, träder, and tråder

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English trade

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English trader

From trade + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪdə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪdɚ/, /ˈtɹeɪdɚ/
• Homophone: traitor (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

trader (plural traders)

1. One who earns a living by trading goods or securities.
   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

     On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.

Derived terms

• contra-trader
• day trader
• day-trader
• floor trader
• free trader
• horse trader
• horse-trader
• missing trader fraud
• noise trader
• paper trader
• rogue trader
• slave trader
• slave-trader
• sole trader

Translations

one who earns a living by trading

• Afrikaans: handelaar, koopman
• Albanian: tregtar (sq) m
• Arabic: بَائِع m (bāʔiʕ), تَاجِر m (tājir), تَاجِرَة f (tājira)
• Armenian: վաճառական (hy) (vačaṙakan)
• Azerbaijani: tacir, sövdəgər, alverçi, ticarətçi
• Bashkir: сауҙагәр (sawźagər)
• Belarusian: гандля́р m (handljár), гандля́рка f (handljárka)
• Bengali: ব্যবসায়ী (bn) (bêbśaẏi), সওদাগর (bn) (śoōdagor)
• Bulgarian: търго́вец (bg) m (tǎrgóvec), търго́вка f (tǎrgóvka)
• Burmese: ကုန်သည် (my) (kunsany), ကုန်သည်ကြီး (my) (kunsanykri:)
• Catalan: comerciant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 商人 (soeng¹ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 商人 (zh) (shāngrén)

• Czech: obchodník (cs) m, kupec (cs) m
• Danish: købmand c
• Dutch: handelaar (nl) m
• Estonian: kaupmees
• Ewe: asitsala n
• Finnish: kauppias (fi), liikemies (fi)
• French: commerçant (fr) m, trader (fr) m or f, marchand (fr) m
• Galician: comerciante (gl) m or f, mercador (gl) m, mercadora f
• Georgian: სოვდაგარი (sovdagari) (archaic), ვაჭარი (vač̣ari)
• German: Händler (de) m, Händlerin (de) f, Kaufmann (de) m, Kauffrau (de) f
• Greek: έμπορος (el) m (émporos)
• Hebrew: סוֹחֵר m (sokhér)
• Hindi: व्यापारी (hi) m (vyāpārī), सौदागर (hi) m (saudāgar)
• Hungarian: kereskedő (hu)
• Icelandic: kaupmaður (is) m
• Indonesian: pedagang (id), saudagar (id)
• Irish: ceannaí m
• Italian: commerciante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 商人 (ja) (しょうにん, shōnin), トレーダー (torēdā)
• Kazakh: сатушы (satuşy), саудагер (saudager), көпестер (köpester)
• Khmer: អ្នកជំនួញ (nĕək cumnuəñ)
• Kikuyu: muonjoria class 1
• Korean: 상인(商人) (ko) (sang'in)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بازرگان (bazirgan)

  Northern Kurdish: bazirgan (ku), tacîr (ku)

• Kyrgyz: соодалоочу (ky) (soodaloocu), соодагер (ky) (soodager)
• Lao: ພານິດ (phā nit), ວະນິຊາ (wa ni sā), ວານິດ (wā nit), ພໍ່ຄ້າ (phǭ khā)
• Latvian: tirgotājs m
• Lithuanian: pirklys m
• Macedonian: трговец m (trgovec)
• Malay: pedagang, saudagar
• Maltese: negozjant m
• Māori: kaihokohoko
• Middle English: chapman
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: худалдаачин (mn) (xudaldaačin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøpmann (no) m

• Pashto: سوداګر m (sawdāgár), تاجر (ps) m (tājér), وپاري m (wapãṛi)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بازَرْگان (bâzargân), تاجِر (tâjer), سُوْداگَر (sowdâgar)

• Plautdietsch: Koopmaun m
• Polish: handlarz (pl) m, kupiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: comerciante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: comerciant (ro) m
• Russian: торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec), тре́йдер (ru) m (trɛ́jdɛr) (esp. shares, futures, etc.), коммерса́нт (ru) m (kommersánt), торга́ш (ru) m (torgáš) (pejorative), купе́ц (ru) m (kupéc), продаве́ц (ru) m (prodavéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тр̀говац m, тр̀го̄вкиња m

  Latin: tr̀govac (sh) m, tr̀gōvkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: obchodník m, kupec m
• Slovene: trgovec (sl) m
• Spanish: comerciante (es) m or f, tréider c (United States), intermediario (es) m, mediador (es) m
• Swahili: mfanyabiashara (sw)
• Swedish: handlare (sv) c, köpman (sv) c
• Tajik: савдогар (savdogar), тоҷир (tojir), бозоргон (bozorgon)
• Tatar: сәүдәгәр (tt) (säwdägär)
• Telugu: వర్తకుడు (te) (vartakuḍu)
• Thai: พ่อค้า (th) (pɔ̂ɔ-káa) (male), ผู้ค้า (pûu-káa), ผู้ค้าขาย (pûu-káa-kǎai), แม่ค้า (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-káa) (female), ผู้ประกอบการค้า, ผู้ทำการค้า, พาณิช (paa-nít)
• Turkish: tüccar (tr), tacir (tr)
• Turkmen: söwdagär
• Ukrainian: торго́вець m (torhóvecʹ), крама́р m (kramár), кра́мар m (krámar)
• Unami: mèmhalamùnt
• Urdu: سَوداگَر m (saudāgar), تاجِر m (tājir)
• Uyghur: سودىگەر (sodiger)
• Uzbek: savdogar (uz), doʻkondor (uz), tujjor (uz)
• Vietnamese: thương thuyền (vi), thương gia (vi)
• Yiddish: האַנדלער m (handler), הענדלער m (hendler), קויפֿמאַן m (koyfman)
• Zulu: uḿhwebi class 1/2

Anagrams

• retrad, retard, R-rated, rarted, dartre, darter, tarred, Darter

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trader.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.dœʁ/

Noun

trader m (plural traders)

1. trader

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English trade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.de/

Verb

trader

1. to trade

Conjugation

Conjugation of trader (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trader
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tradant /tʁe.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tradé /tʁe.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trade /tʁɛd/	trades /tʁɛd/	trade /tʁɛd/	tradons /tʁe.dɔ̃/	tradez /tʁe.de/	tradent /tʁɛd/
	imperfect	tradais /tʁe.dɛ/	tradais /tʁe.dɛ/	tradait /tʁe.dɛ/	tradions /tʁe.djɔ̃/	tradiez /tʁe.dje/	tradaient /tʁe.dɛ/
	past historic2	tradai /tʁe.de/	tradas /tʁe.da/	trada /tʁe.da/	tradâmes /tʁe.dam/	tradâtes /tʁe.dat/	tradèrent /tʁe.dɛʁ/
	future	traderai /tʁɛ.dʁe/ or /tʁe.dʁe/	traderas /tʁɛ.dʁa/ or /tʁe.dʁa/	tradera /tʁɛ.dʁa/ or /tʁe.dʁa/	traderons /tʁɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /tʁe.dʁɔ̃/	traderez /tʁɛ.dʁe/ or /tʁe.dʁe/	traderont /tʁɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /tʁe.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	traderais /tʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /tʁe.dʁɛ/	traderais /tʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /tʁe.dʁɛ/	traderait /tʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /tʁe.dʁɛ/	traderions /tʁɛ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.də.ʁjɔ̃/	traderiez /tʁɛ.də.ʁje/ or /tʁe.də.ʁje/	traderaient /tʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /tʁe.dʁɛ/
(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	trade /tʁɛd/	trades /tʁɛd/	trade /tʁɛd/	tradions /tʁe.djɔ̃/	tradiez /tʁe.dje/	tradent /tʁɛd/
	imperfect2	tradasse /tʁe.das/	tradasses /tʁe.das/	tradât /tʁe.da/	tradassions /tʁe.da.sjɔ̃/	tradassiez /tʁe.da.sje/	tradassent /tʁe.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trade /tʁɛd/	—	tradons /tʁe.dɔ̃/	tradez /tʁe.de/	—
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).

Anagrams

• retard, tarder

Spanish

Noun

trader m (plural traderes)

1. trader