staffer

English

Etymology

staff +‎ -er

Noun

staffer (plural staffers)

1. A member of a staff.

   The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.

Translations

member of a staff

• French: membre du personnel m
• Galician: empregado (gl) m, empregada f
• German: Mitarbeiter (de) m
• Russian: шта́тный сотру́дник m (štátnyj sotrúdnik), шта́тная сотру́дница f (štátnaja sotrúdnica)

Anagrams

• affrets, restaff

French

Etymology

From staff +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.fe/

• Audio:

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Verb

staffer

1. (transitive) to cover with staff (the building material)

Conjugation

Conjugation of staffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	staffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	staffant /sta.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		staffé /sta.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	staffe /staf/	staffes /staf/	staffe /staf/	staffons /sta.fɔ̃/	staffez /sta.fe/	staffent /staf/
	imperfect	staffais /sta.fɛ/	staffais /sta.fɛ/	staffait /sta.fɛ/	staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/	staffiez /sta.fje/	staffaient /sta.fɛ/
	past historic2	staffai /sta.fe/	staffas /sta.fa/	staffa /sta.fa/	staffâmes /sta.fam/	staffâtes /sta.fat/	staffèrent /sta.fɛʁ/
	future	stafferai /sta.fʁe/	stafferas /sta.fʁa/	staffera /sta.fʁa/	stafferons /sta.fʁɔ̃/	stafferez /sta.fʁe/	stafferont /sta.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/	stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/	stafferait /sta.fʁɛ/	stafferions /sta.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	stafferiez /sta.fə.ʁje/	stafferaient /sta.fʁɛ/
(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	staffe /staf/	staffes /staf/	staffe /staf/	staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/	staffiez /sta.fje/	staffent /staf/
	imperfect2	staffasse /sta.fas/	staffasses /sta.fas/	staffât /sta.fa/	staffassions /sta.fa.sjɔ̃/	staffassiez /sta.fa.sje/	staffassent /sta.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	staffe /staf/	—	staffons /sta.fɔ̃/	staffez /sta.fe/	—
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).

Further reading

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