footballer

English

A Romanian footballer

Etymology

From football +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtbɔːlə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtbɔːləɹ/

Noun

footballer (plural footballers)

1. (soccer, UK) One who plays association football.
   • 2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259:

     It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.

2. (Australia) Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae, so named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.

Synonyms

• (one who plays football): football player, soccer player (US, Canada)

Translations

one who plays football

• Aragonese: futbolista m or f
• Armenian: ֆուտբոլիստ (hy) (futbolist)
• Asturian: futbolista (ast) m or f
• Azerbaijani: futbolçu (az)
• Bashkir: футболсы (futbolsı)
• Basque: futbolari (eu)
• Belarusian: футбалі́ст m (futbalíst), футбалі́стка f (futbalístka)
• Bulgarian: футболи́ст m (futbolíst), футболи́стка f (futbolístka)
• Burmese: ဘောလုံးသမား (bhau:lum:sa.ma:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: фотбалі́ста m (fotbalísta), фотбалі́стка f (fotbalístka)
• Catalan: futbolista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 足球員／足球员 (zúqiúyuán), 足球選手／足球选手 (zúqiú xuǎnshǒu), 足球運動員／足球运动员 (zúqiú yùndòngyuán)

• Czech: fotbalista (cs) m, fotbalistka (cs) f
• Danish: fodboldspiller (da) c
• Dutch: voetballer (nl) m, voetbalster (nl) f, voetbalspeler m, voetbalspeelster f
• Estonian: jalgpallur (et)
• Faroese: fótbóltsspælari m
• Finnish: jalkapalloilija (fi)
• French: footballeur (fr) m, footballeuse (fr) f
• Galician: futbolista m or f
• Georgian: ფეხბურთელი (pexburteli)
• German: Fußballer (de) m, Fussballer (de) m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Fußballerin (de) f, Fussballerin (de) f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Fußballspieler (de) m, Fussballspieler (de) m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Fußballspielerin (de) f, Fussballspielerin (de) f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
• Greek: ποδοσφαιριστής (el) m (podosfairistís), ποδοσφαιρίστρια (el) f (podosfairístria)
• Hungarian: futballista (hu), labdarúgó (hu), futballjátékos, focista (hu) (informal)
• Icelandic: knattspyrnumaður m, fótboltamaður m
• Irish: peileadóir m
• Italian: calciatore (it) m, calciatrice (it) f
• Japanese: サッカー選手 (sakkā senshu)
• Karakalpak: futbolshı
• Kazakh: футболшы (futbolşy)
• Korean: 축구 선수(蹴球選手) (chukgu seonsu)
• Kyrgyz: буттопчу (buttopcu)
• Latvian: futbolists m, futboliste f
• Lithuanian: fùtbolininkas m, fùtbolininkė f
• Macedonian: фудбалер m (fudbaler), фудбалерка f (fudbalerka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fotballspiller (no) m, fotballspeller m

  Nynorsk: fotballspelar m

• Occitan: fotbolaire (oc) m, fotbolaira (oc) f
• Persian: فوتبالیست (fa) (futbâlist)
• Polish: piłkarz (pl) m, piłkarz nożny m, piłkarka nożna f
• Portuguese: futebolista (pt) m or f, jogador de futebol m, jogadora de futebol f
• Romanian: fotbalist (ro) m, fotbalistă (ro) f
• Russian: футболи́ст (ru) m (futbolíst), футболи́стка (ru) f (futbolístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ногометаш m, ногометашица f

  Roman: nogometaš (sh) m, nogometašica (sh) f

• Slovak: futbalista m, futbalistka f
• Slovene: nogometáš (sl) m, nogometášica f
• Spanish: futbolista (es) m or f, balompedista m or f
• Swahili: mwanasoka (sw)
• Swedish: fotbollsspelare (sv) c
• Tajik: футболбоз (futbolboz)
• Tatar: футболчы (futbolçı)
• Turkish: futbolcu (tr)
• Turkmen: futbolçy
• Ukrainian: футболі́ст m (futbolíst), футболі́стка f (futbolístka)
• Uzbek: futbolchi (uz)
• Walloon: fotbalisse (wa) m or f, fotbaleu (wa) m
• Welsh: pêl-droediwr m, pêl-droedwraig f
• Yiddish: פֿוסבאָליסט m (fusbolist)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fut.bɔ.le/

Verb

footballer

1. to play football / soccer

Conjugation

Conjugation of footballer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	footballer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	footballant /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		footballé /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	footballes /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	footballons /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɔ̃/	footballez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/	footballent /fɔ.ɔt.bal/
	imperfect	footballais /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/	footballais /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/	footballait /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/	footballions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.ljɔ̃/	footballiez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lje/	footballaient /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛ/
	past historic2	footballai /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/	footballas /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/	footballa /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/	footballâmes /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lam/	footballâtes /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lat/	footballèrent /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɛʁ/
	future	footballerai /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁe/	footballeras /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁa/	footballera /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁa/	footballerons /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɔ̃/	footballerez /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁe/	footballeront /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	footballerais /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/	footballerais /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/	footballerait /fɔ.ɔt.bal.ʁɛ/	footballerions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	footballeriez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lə.ʁje/	footballeraient /fɔ.ɔt.bal.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	footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	footballes /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	footballions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.ljɔ̃/	footballiez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lje/	footballent /fɔ.ɔt.bal/
	imperfect2	footballasse /fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/	footballasses /fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/	footballât /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la/	footballassions /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la.sjɔ̃/	footballassiez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.la.sje/	footballassent /fɔ.ɔt.ba.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	footballe /fɔ.ɔt.bal/	—	footballons /fɔ.ɔt.ba.lɔ̃/	footballez /fɔ.ɔt.ba.le/	—
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).

Related terms

• foot
• football
• footballeur
• footballeuse
• footeuse
• footeux