reporter

See also: Reporter, reportér, repórter, and repòrter

English

Alternative forms

• reportor (obsolete)
• reportour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpoətə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

reporter (plural reporters)

1. Someone or something that reports.

   The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.

2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
4. (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
5. (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Derived terms

• case reporter
• court reporter
• cub reporter
• law reporter
• mandated reporter
• mandatory reporter
• police reporter
• sideline reporter

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: repòrter
• → Greek: ρεπόρτερ (repórter)

Translations

journalist

• Albanian: reporter (sq) m
• Arabic: مُرَاسِل m (murāsil), مُرَاسِلَة f (murāsila), صَحَافِيّ m (ṣaḥāfiyy), صَحَافِيَّة f (ṣaḥāfiyya)
• Armenian: թղթակից (hy) (tʻġtʻakicʻ), լրագրող (hy) (lragroġ)
• Azerbaijani: reportyor, müxbir
• Bashkir: хәбәрсе (xəbərse)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: рэпарцёр m (reparcjór), рэпарцёрка f (reparcjórka), карэспандэ́нт m (karespandént), карэспандэ́нтка f (karespandéntka), журналі́ст m (žurnalíst), журналі́стка f (žurnalístka)
• Bengali: রিপোর্টার (bn) (ripōrṭar)
• Bulgarian: репорте́р m (reportér), репорте́рка f (reportérka)
• Burmese: သတင်းထောက် (my) (sa.tang:htauk)
• Catalan: reporter (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 記者／记者 (gei³ ze²)

  Hakka: 記者／记者 (ki-chá)

  Hokkien: 記者／记者 (zh-min-nan) (kì-chiá)

  Mandarin: 記者／记者 (zh) (jìzhě)

  Wu: 記者／记者 (⁵ci-tse)

• Czech: (journalist) zpravodaj (cs) m, zpravodajka f, reportér (cs) m, reportérka f
• Danish: journalist (da) c, reporter c
• Dutch: verslaggever (nl) m, reporter (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĵurnalisto
• Estonian: reporter (et)
• Finnish: toimittaja (fi), reportteri
• French: reporter (fr) m or f, rapporteur (fr) m, rapporteuse (fr) f, journaliste (fr) m or f
• Galician: reporteiro (gl) m, reporteira f
• Georgian: რეპორტიორი (reṗorṭiori), კორესპონდენტი (ḳoresṗondenṭi)
• German: Reporter (de) m, Reporterin (de) f
• Greek: ρεπόρτερ (el) m or f (repórter), δημοσιογράφος (el) m or f (dimosiográfos)
• Guaraní: momaranduhára
• Hindi: रिपोर्टर (hi) m (riporṭar), संवाददाता (hi) m (samvāddātā)
• Hungarian: riporter (hu), tudósító (hu)
• Indonesian: jurnalis (id)
• Italian: giornalista (it) m, inviato (it) m, corrispondente (it) m
• Japanese: 記者 (ja) (きしゃ, kisha), 報告者 (ほうこくしゃ, hōkokusha), リポーター (ja) (ripōtā), ジャーナリスト (ja) (jānarisuto)
• Javanese: juru warta, juru pawarta
• Kazakh: тілші (tılşı)
• Khmer: អ្នកកាសែត (nĕək kaasaet), អ្នកសារពត៌មាន (nĕək saapɔədɑɑmiən)
• Korean: 기자(記者) (ko) (gija), 보고자(報告者) (bogoja)
• Kyrgyz: репортёр (reportyor)
• Lao: ນັກຂ່າວ (lo) (nak khāo)
• Latin: relātor m
• Latvian: reportieris m
• Lithuanian: reporteris m
• Macedonian: репорте́р m (reportér), репорте́рка f (reportérka)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сурвалжлагч (mn) (survalžlagč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reporter m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: گُزارِشْگَر (fa) (gozârešgar), رِپورْتِر (reporter)

• Plautdietsch: Zeitungschriewa m
• Polish: reporter (pl) m, reporterka (pl) f
• Portuguese: repórter (pt), jornalista (pt)
• Romanian: reporter (ro) m, reporteră (ro) f
• Russian: репортёр (ru) m (reportjór) (male or female), репортёрша (ru) f (reportjórša) (colloquial female form), корреспонде́нт (ru) m (korrespondént), корреспонде́нтка (ru) f (korrespondéntka), журнали́ст (ru) m (žurnalíst), журнали́стка (ru) f (žurnalístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репо̀рте̄р m, репо̀рте̄рка f

  Roman: repòrtēr (sh) m, repòrtērka (sh) f

• Slovak: reportér m, reportérka f, spravodajca m
• Slovene: poročevalec m, poročevalka f
• Spanish: reportero (es) m, reportera f
• Swahili: mwanahabari
• Swazi: umbiki
• Swedish: reporter (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagapag-ulat
• Tajik: репортёр (reportyor), мухбир (muxbir), хабарнигор (tg) (xabarnigor), хабарнавис (xabarnavis)
• Tatar: хәбәрче (tt) (xäbärçe)
• Thai: นักข่าว (th) (nák-kàao)
• Turkish: muhabir (tr), bildirmen (tr)
• Turkmen: habarçy
• Ukrainian: репорте́р m (reportér), репорте́рка f (reportérka), кореспонде́нт (uk) m (korespondént), кореспонде́нтка (uk) f (korespondéntka), журналі́ст (uk) m (žurnalíst), журналі́стка f (žurnalístka)
• Urdu: صَحافِی (ur) m (sahāfī)
• Uzbek: reportyor (uz), muxbir (uz)
• Vietnamese: phóng viên (vi), nhà báo (vi), ký giả (vi)
• Yiddish: רעפּאָרטער m (reporter), רעפּאָרטערין f (reporterin)

See also

• rapporteur

 

Anagrams

• repertor, rereport

Catalan

Etymology

From reportar +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.purˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.porˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.poɾˈteɾ]

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)

1. reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)

   Synonym: repòrter

2. informant, accuser, denouncer

Adjective

reporter (feminine reportera, masculine plural reporters, feminine plural reporteres)

1. who informs (as an informant), who denounces

Further reading

• “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reporter”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

Noun

reporter

1. someone or something that reports
2. a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television

Danish

Noun

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

1. (journalism) a reporter, a journalist

Inflection

Declension of reporter

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	reporter	reporteren	reportere	reporterne
genitive	reporters	reporterens	reporteres	reporternes

Verb

reporter

1. imperativ of reportere

Related terms

• reportage
• reportere

French

Etymology 1

From re- +‎ porter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

reporter

1. (literally) to carry something back to where it was
2. (literally) to wear again
3. to transfer (an emotion)

   reporter son amour sur quelqu’un ― to transfer one's love to somebody

4. to put back; to put off; to postpone

   Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.

   After having been postponed numerous times, the exams finally took place.

   • 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 113:

     Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d’attendre la fin de l’enquête sur le violeur pour s’amuser.

     Graham had put back the party, suggesting to wait until the investigation about the rapist was over to have fun.

5. (usually impersonal) to carry or take back in time

   Il faut se reporter au mois dernier pour comprendre.

   We have to go back in time a month to understand.

6. (pronominal) to refer; to check

   Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4.

   To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.

7. (mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward

   Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3!

   That idiot forgot to carry over a 3!

Conjugation

Conjugation of reporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reporter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reportant /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reporté /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/	reportes /ʁə.pɔʁt/	reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/	reportons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	reportez /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/	reportent /ʁə.pɔʁt/
	imperfect	reportais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/	reportais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/	reportait /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/	reportions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	reportiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/	reportaient /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	reportai /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/	reportas /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/	reporta /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/	reportâmes /ʁə.pɔʁ.tam/	reportâtes /ʁə.pɔʁ.tat/	reportèrent /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	reporterai /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	reporteras /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	reportera /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	reporterons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	reporterez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	reporteront /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reporterais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	reporterais /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	reporterait /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	reporterions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	reporteriez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/	reporteraient /ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.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	reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/	reportes /ʁə.pɔʁt/	reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/	reportions /ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	reportiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/	reportent /ʁə.pɔʁt/
	imperfect2	reportasse /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/	reportasses /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/	reportât /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/	reportassions /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	reportassiez /ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sje/	reportassent /ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reporte /ʁə.pɔʁt/	—	reportons /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	reportez /ʁə.pɔʁ.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).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/

Noun

reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)

1. a news reporter; a journalist

Usage notes

• The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.

Synonyms

• correspondant
• journaliste
• reporteur

 

Derived terms

• grand reporter
• journaliste reporter d’images
• reporteur

 

See also

• rapporteur

 

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈpɔr.ter/
• Rhymes: -ɔrter
• Hyphenation: re‧pòr‧ter

Noun

reporter m or f by sense (invariable)

1. reporter (journalist)

Latin

Verb

reporter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters)

1. Alternative form of riporter: reporter

Related terms

• raportaġ
• rapport (riport, laport)
• rrapporta

 

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)

1. (journalism) a reporter

Derived terms

• krigsreporter

Related terms

• reportasje

References

• “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)

1. (journalism) a reporter

Derived terms

• krigsreporter

Related terms

• reportasje

References

• “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

re- +‎ porter.

Verb

reporter

1. to bring back
2. to gain; to get (take possession of)

   Judas reportat le argent dount Deux estoyt vendu

   Judas got the money of which God was sold

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of reporter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		reporter			avoir reporté
gerund		en reportant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		reportant
past participle		reporté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	report	reportes	reporte	reportons	reportez	reportent
	imperfect	reportoie, reporteie, reportoe, reporteve	reportoies, reporteies, reportoes, reporteves	reportoit, reporteit, reportot, reporteve	reportiiens, reportiens	reportiiez, reportiez	reportoient, reporteient, reportoent, reportevent
	preterite	reportai	reportas	reporta	reportames	reportastes	reporterent
	future	reporterai	reporteras	reportera	reporterons	reporteroiz, reportereiz, reporterez	reporteront
	conditional	reporteroie, reportereie	reporteroies, reportereies	reporteroit, reportereit	reporteriiens, reporteriens	reporteriiez, reporteriez	reporteroient, reportereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	report	reporz	report	reportons	reportez	reportent
	imperfect	reportasse	reportasses	reportast	reportissons, reportissiens	reportissoiz, reportissez, reportissiez	reportassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	reporte	—	reportons	reportez	—

References

• reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

reporterzy

Etymology

Internationalism; compare German Reporter, Russian репортёр (reportjór), Spanish reportero, ultimately from English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrtɛr
• Syllabification: re‧por‧ter

Noun

reporter m pers (female equivalent reporterka, augmentative reporterzyna, related adjective reporterski)

1. (journalism) reporter (journalist who investigates, edits, and reports news stories for newspapers, radio, and television)

   Hypernym: dziennikarz

Declension

Declension of reporter

	singular	plural
nominative	reporter	reporterzy/reportery (deprecative)
genitive	reportera	reporterów
dative	reporterowi	reporterom
accusative	reportera	reporterów
instrumental	reporterem	reporterami
locative	reporterze	reporterach
vocative	reporterze	reporterzy

Derived terms

noun

• reporterstwo

 

Related terms

adverb

• reportersko

 

nouns

• reporteria
• reporterskość

 

Further reading

• reporter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reporter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reporter.

Noun

reporter m (plural reporteri)

1. reporter, journalist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	reporter	reporterul		reporteri	reporterii
genitive-dative	reporter	reporterului		reporteri	reporterilor
vocative	reporterule			reporterilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /repǒrteːr/
• Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

Noun

repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Declension

Declension of reporter

	singular	plural
nominative	repòrtēr	reporteri
genitive	reportéra	reportera
dative	reporteru	reporterima
accusative	reportera	reportere
vocative	reporteru	reporteri
locative	reporteru	reporterima
instrumental	reporterom	reporterima

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

Noun

reporter c

1. reporter

Declension

Declension of reporter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	reporter	reporters
	definite	reportern	reporterns
plural	indefinite	reportrar	reportrars
	definite	reportrarna	reportrarnas

Derived terms

• allmänreporter
• deskreporter
• förstereporter
• hovreporter
• in­bäddad reporter
• inrikesreporter
• kriminalreporter
• nyhetsreporter
• radioreporter
• reporterblock
• reporterfotograf
• reporterteam
• sportreporter
• stjärnreporter
• tv-reporter
• utrikesreporter

 

Related terms

• rapport
• reportage

Further reading

• reporter in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker