surfer

See also: Surfer

English

Etymology

From surf +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

surfer (plural surfers)

1. A person who rides a surfboard.
   • 1965, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 28:

     When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:

     A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.

2. A person who surfs the Internet.
3. (obsolete) A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).

Synonyms

• surf rider (obsolete)

Derived terms

• bed surfer
• couch surfer
• couch-surfer
• crowd surfer
• elevator surfer
• para surfer
• para-surfer
• sex surfer
• shoulder surfer
• silver surfer
• sofa surfer
• surfie
• web surfer

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: サーファー (sāfā)

Translations

person who rides a surfboard

• Basque: surflari (eu)
• Catalan: surfista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: surfař (cs) m
• Finnish: lainelautailija (fi)
• French: surfeur (fr) m, surfeuse (fr) f
• Galician: surfista m or f
• German: Wellenreiter m
• Hebrew: גּוֹלֵשׁ (he) m (golésh)
• Hungarian: hullámlovas (hu), szörföző (hu)
• Italian: surfer (it) m or f
• Maori: kaiwhakahekeheke
• Polish: surfer (pl) m, surferka (pl) f
• Portuguese: surfista (pt)
• Russian: серфинги́ст (ru) m (serfingíst)
• Samoan: tagata fa'ase'e
• Spanish: surfista m or f, surfero m (chiefly US)
• Thai: นักโต้คลื่น (nák-dtôo-klʉ̂ʉn)
• Tongan: tokotaha fānifo

person who surfs the Internet

• Dutch: surfer (nl), internetter (nl)
• Esperanto: retumanto
• Finnish: surffaaja (fi)
• French: internaute (fr) m or f
• Italian: navigatore (it) m, internauta (it)
• Malay: pelayar (ms)
• Polish: internauta (pl) m, surfer (pl) m
• Portuguese: internauta (pt)
• Spanish: internauta (es)

surf scoter — see surf scoter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English surf + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœʁ.fe/

• Audio:

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Verb

surfer

1. to surf (on a wave)
2. to surf (to browse the internet)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surfer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surfer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surfant /syʁ.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surfé /syʁ.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surfe /syʁf/	surfes /syʁf/	surfe /syʁf/	surfons /syʁ.fɔ̃/	surfez /syʁ.fe/	surfent /syʁf/
	imperfect	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	surfait /syʁ.fɛ/	surfions /syʁ.fjɔ̃/	surfiez /syʁ.fje/	surfaient /syʁ.fɛ/
	past historic2	surfai /syʁ.fe/	surfas /syʁ.fa/	surfa /syʁ.fa/	surfâmes /syʁ.fam/	surfâtes /syʁ.fat/	surfèrent /syʁ.fɛʁ/
	future	surferai /syʁ.fə.ʁe/	surferas /syʁ.fə.ʁa/	surfera /syʁ.fə.ʁa/	surferons /syʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/	surferez /syʁ.fə.ʁe/	surferont /syʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surferais /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferais /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferait /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferions /syʁ.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	surferiez /syʁ.fə.ʁje/	surferaient /syʁ.fə.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	surfe /syʁf/	surfes /syʁf/	surfe /syʁf/	surfions /syʁ.fjɔ̃/	surfiez /syʁ.fje/	surfent /syʁf/
	imperfect2	surfasse /syʁ.fas/	surfasses /syʁ.fas/	surfât /syʁ.fa/	surfassions /syʁ.fa.sjɔ̃/	surfassiez /syʁ.fa.sje/	surfassent /syʁ.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surfe /syʁf/	—	surfons /syʁ.fɔ̃/	surfez /syʁ.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).

Related terms

• surf
• surfeur

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.fɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrfɛr
• Syllabification: sur‧fer

Noun

surfer m pers (female equivalent surferka)

1. (surfing) surfer (person who rides a surfboard)

Declension

Declension of surfer

	singular	plural
nominative	surfer	surferzy/surfery (deprecative)
genitive	surfera	surferów
dative	surferowi	surferom
accusative	surfera	surferów
instrumental	surferem	surferami
locative	surferze	surferach
vocative	surferze	surferzy

Related terms

adjective

• surfingowy

 

noun

• surfing

 

verbs

• surfingować impf
• surfować impf

 

Further reading

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