voter

See also: votër and v́otĕr

English

Etymology

From vote +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊtɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

voter (plural voters)

1. Someone who votes.
   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.

   • 2024 January 8, Jonathan Weisman, quoting Sam Rosenfeld, “Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-09:

     "Until relatively recently, there was a Midwestern rural white voter who was distinct from a southern rural white voter," Mr. Rosenfeld said. "There was a real progressive tradition in the Midwest uncoopted by Jim Crow and racial issues."

Derived terms

• absentee voter
• absent voter
• cross-voter
• donkey voter
• early voter
• e-voter
• faggot voter
• floating voter
• flying voter
• ghost voter
• motor voter
• nonvoter
• outvoter
• swing voter
• value voter
• votership
• voter suppression

 

Translations

one who votes

• Albanian: votues (sq) m
• Arabic: مُصَوِّت m (muṣawwit), نَاخِب m (nāḵib)

  Gulf Arabic: ناخب m (nāḵib)

• Armenian: ընտրող (hy) (əntroġ)
• Asturian: votante m or f
• Azerbaijani: seçici
• Belarusian: вы́баршчык m (výbarščyk), абіра́льнік m (abirálʹnik), выбіра́льнік m (vybirálʹnik)
• Bengali: ভোটদাতা (bn) (bhōṭdata), ভোটার (bn) (bhōṭar)
• Bulgarian: избира́тел (bg) m (izbirátel), гласоподава́тел m (glasopodavátel)
• Burmese: မဲဆန္ဒရှင် (my) (mai:hcanda.hrang)
• Catalan: votant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投票者 (zh) (tóupiàozhě), 選民／选民 (zh) (xuǎnmín), 選舉人／选举人 (zh) (xuǎnjǔrén)

• Cornish: voter m, votores f
• Czech: volič (cs) m, volička (cs) f
• Danish: vælger (da) c, vælgerinde c
• Dutch: stemmer (nl) m, stemster f
• Esperanto: voĉdonanto
• Estonian: hääletaja
• Finnish: äänestäjä (fi)
• French: votant (fr) m, votante (fr) f
• Galician: votante m or f
• Georgian: ამომრჩეველი (amomrčeveli)
• German: Wähler (de) m, Wählerin (de) f
• Greek: ψηφοφόρος (el) m or f (psifofóros)
• Hebrew: מַצְבִּיעַ m (matsbi'a), בּוֹחֵר m (bokher)
• Hindi: मतदाता m (matdātā), निर्वाचक (hi) m (nirvācak), वोटर (hi) m (voṭar)
• Hungarian: szavazó (hu)
• Hunsrik: Weeler m, Weelerin f
• Indonesian: pemilih (id)
• Irish: vótálaí m, vóitéir m, vótaeir m, vótóir m
• Italian: elettore (it) m, elettrice (it) f
• Japanese: 投票者 (とうひょうしゃ, tōhyōsha), 選挙人 (ja) (せんきょにん, senkyonin)
• Kazakh: сайлаушы (sailauşy)
• Khmer: អ្នកបោះឆ្នោត (nĕək bɑh chnaot)
• Korean: 유권자 (ko) (yugwonja), 투표자 (ko) (tupyoja)
• Kyrgyz: шайлоочу (ky) (şayloocu)
• Lao: ຜູ້ເລືອກຕັ້ງ (phū lư̄ak tang)
• Latin: suffrāgātor m
• Latvian: vēlētājs m, balsotājs m
• Lithuanian: rinkėjas m
• Macedonian: гласач m (glasač)
• Malay: pengundi (ms)
• Maori: kaipōti
• Mongolian: сонгогч (mn) (songogč)
• Norman: voteux m
• Northern Sami: jienasteaddji
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velger m

  Nynorsk: veljar m

• Persian: رأی‌دهنده (fa) (ra'y-dahande)
• Plautdietsch: Stemm f
• Polish: wyborca (pl) m, wyborczyni (pl) f, elektor (pl) m
• Portuguese: votante (pt) m or f, eleitor (pt) m, eleitora (pt) f
• Romanian: votant (ro) m, alegător (ro) m
• Russian: избира́тель (ru) m (izbirátelʹ), избира́тельница (ru) f (izbirátelʹnica), голосу́ющий (ru) m (golosújuščij), голосу́ющая (ru) f (golosújuščaja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гла̀са̄ч m

  Roman: glàsāč (sh) m

• Slovak: volič m
• Slovene: volivec m, volivka f, glasovalec m, glasovalka f
• Spanish: votante (es) m or f
• Swahili: mpigakura (sw)
• Swedish: väljare (sv) c, väljarinna c, valman c
• Tagalog: botante
• Tajik: интихобкунанда (intixobkunanda)
• Thai: ผู้เลือกตั้ง (pûu-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng)
• Turkish: seçmen (tr), saylavcı
• Turkmen: saýlawçy, saýlaýjy
• Ukrainian: ви́борець m (výborecʹ), обира́льник m (obyrálʹnyk), голосу́ючий m (holosújučyj)
• Urdu: رائے دہندہ (rā'ey-dahanda), ووٹر m (voṭar)
• Uyghur: سايلىغۇچى (saylighuchi)
• Uzbek: saylovchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: cử tri (vi)
• Volapük: vögodan (vo)
• Yiddish: וויילער m (veyler)
• Zazaki: reywan c

See also

• elector

Anagrams

• orvet, overt, trove

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• votar (Timau)

Noun

voter

1. (Sappada, Sauris) father

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cornish

Noun

voter m (plural votoryon)

1. (male) voter

Related terms

• votores (gender)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: votai, voté, votée, votées, votés, votez

Verb

voter

1. to vote

   Tu vas voter pour qui ?

   Who are you going to vote for?

Conjugation

Conjugation of voter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	voter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	votant /vɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		voté /vɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vote /vɔt/	votes /vɔt/	vote /vɔt/	votons /vɔ.tɔ̃/	votez /vɔ.te/	votent /vɔt/
	imperfect	votais /vɔ.tɛ/	votais /vɔ.tɛ/	votait /vɔ.tɛ/	votions /vɔ.tjɔ̃/	votiez /vɔ.tje/	votaient /vɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	votai /vɔ.te/	votas /vɔ.ta/	vota /vɔ.ta/	votâmes /vɔ.tam/	votâtes /vɔ.tat/	votèrent /vɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	voterai /vɔ.tʁe/	voteras /vɔ.tʁa/	votera /vɔ.tʁa/	voterons /vɔ.tʁɔ̃/	voterez /vɔ.tʁe/	voteront /vɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voterais /vɔ.tʁɛ/	voterais /vɔ.tʁɛ/	voterait /vɔ.tʁɛ/	voterions /vɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	voteriez /vɔ.tə.ʁje/	voteraient /vɔ.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	vote /vɔt/	votes /vɔt/	vote /vɔt/	votions /vɔ.tjɔ̃/	votiez /vɔ.tje/	votent /vɔt/
	imperfect2	votasse /vɔ.tas/	votasses /vɔ.tas/	votât /vɔ.ta/	votassions /vɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	votassiez /vɔ.ta.sje/	votassent /vɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vote /vɔt/	—	votons /vɔ.tɔ̃/	votez /vɔ.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• orvet, torve, votre, vôtre

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English to vote.

Verb

voter (gerund vot'tie)

1. (Jersey) to vote

Derived terms

• voter au scrutîn (“to ballot”)
• voteux (“voter”)
• vot'tie (“voting”)