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From address + -ee .
addressee (plural addressees )
The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent , for whom the item is intended.
Synonym: recipient
( linguistics ) A person or entity to whom discourse is directed, or the words referring to such an entity.
1988 , Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course , Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 305 :Person is a grammatical property which is overtly manifested in so-called Personal Pronouns: forms which include the speaker (I /we ) are said to be ‘first personʼ Pronouns; forms which include the addressee (you ) and not the speaker are said to be ‘second personʼ Pronouns; while forms which exclude both speaker and addressee (he /she /it /they ) are ‘third personʼ Pronouns.
person or organization to which something is addressed or sent
Arabic: مُسْتَلِم m ( mustalim ) , مُسْتَلِمَة f ( mustalima ) , مُرْسَل إِلَيْهِ m ( mursal ʔilayhi )
Armenian: հասցեատեր (hy) ( hascʻeater )
Belarusian: атрыма́льнік m ( atrymálʹnik ) , атрыма́льніца f ( atrymálʹnica ) , атрыма́ч m ( atrymáč ) , атрыма́чка f ( atrymáčka ) , адрэса́т m ( adresát ) , адрэса́тка f ( adresátka ) , адраса́т m ( adrasát ) , адраса́тка f ( adrasátka )
Bulgarian: получа́тел (bg) m ( polučátel ) , получа́телка f ( polučátelka )
Catalan: destinatari m , destinatària f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 收件人 (zh) ( shōujiànrén )
Czech: příjemce (cs) m , příjemkyně (cs) f , adresát (cs) m , adresátka (cs) f
Danish: adressat (da) c
Dutch: geadresseerde (nl) , adressaat (nl) m or f
Esperanto: adresulo , adresito , ricevonto
Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi)
French: destinataire (fr) m or f
German: Adressat (de) m , Adressatin (de) f , Empfänger (de) m , Empfängerin (de) f , Rezipient (de) m , Rezipientin f
Greek: παραλήπτης (el) m ( paralíptis ) , αποδέκτης (el) m ( apodéktis )
Hindi: पानेवाला m ( pānevālā )
Hungarian: címzett (hu)
Indonesian: komunikan (id) , penerima (id)
Irish: seolaí m
Italian: destinatario (it) m , destinataria (it) f
Japanese: 受取人 ( うけとりにん, uketorinin ) , 受信人 ( じゅしんにん, jushinnin )
Korean: 수신인(受信人) (ko) ( susinin ) , 수취인(受取人) ( suchwiin )
Latvian: adresāts m , adresāte f
Macedonian: примател m ( primatel ) , примателка f ( primatelka )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: adressat (no) m
Nynorsk: adressat m
Odia: ପ୍ରାପ୍ତେଷୁ ( prāpteshu )
Polish: adresat (pl) m , adresatka (pl) f , odbiorca (pl) m , odbiorczyni (pl) f
Portuguese: destinatário (pt) m , destinatária f , alocutário m
Romanian: destinatar (ro) m , destinatară (ro) f
Russian: адреса́т (ru) m ( adresát ) , адреса́тка (ru) f ( adresátka ) , получа́тель (ru) m ( polučátelʹ ) , получа́тельница (ru) f ( polučátelʹnica )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на́сло̄внӣк m , на́сло̄вница f , адрѐса̄т m
Roman: náslōvnīk (sh) m , náslōvnica (sh) f , adrèsāt (sh) m
Slovak: príjemca m , príjemkyňa f , adresát m , adresátka f
Slovene: naslovljenec m , naslovljenka f , naslovnik m , naslovnica f , nagovorjenec m , nagovorjenka f
Spanish: destinatario (es) m , consignatario m
Swedish: adressat (sv) c
Turkish: muhatap (tr)
Ukrainian: оде́ржувач m ( odéržuvač ) , оде́ржувачка f ( odéržuvačka ) , адреса́т (uk) m ( adresát ) , адреса́тка (uk) f ( adresátka )
Volapük: ladetäb
Welsh: derbynnydd m or f
Yiddish: אַדרעסאַט m ( adresat )
grammar term for words indicating who or what the speaker is addressing