carer

English

Etymology

From care +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəɹə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

carer (plural carers)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.

   Have you thought of a job as a carer for disabled people?

   They retired early to be a full-time carer for their partner.

   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 211:

     Her business was a one-woman outfit that offered accredited first-aid training courses for teachers, carers, sports coaches, antenatal classes, workplace groups, and the police; the classes ranged from basic defibrillator training to what was now called psychological first aid.

Synonyms

• caregiver (US, Canada)

Derived terms

• childcarer
• daycarer
• home carer
• noncarer
• sandwich carer
• telecarer
• wildlife carer

 

Translations

someone who regularly looks after another person

• Arabic: مُقَدِّم الرِّعايَة m (muqaddim ar-riʕāya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 照顧者／照顾者 (zhàogùzhě), 照料人 (zhàoliàorén), 護理人員／护理人员 (hùlǐ rényuán), 私人看護／私人看护 (sīrén kānhù), 監護工／监护工 (zh) (jiānhùgōng) (Taiwan)

• Czech: pečovatel m, pečovatelka f
• Danish: plejer c, omsorgsperson c
• Dutch: verzorger (nl)
• Esperanto: zorganto
• Finnish: hoitaja (fi), omaishoitaja (fi)
• French: soignant (fr) m, soignante (fr) f
• German: Betreuer (de) m, Betreuerin (de) f
• Hindi: देखभालकर्ता m (dekhbhālkartā)
• Irish: cúramóir m, banchúramóir m (female)
• Japanese: 介護者 (かいごしゃ, kaigosha), ホームヘルパー (hōmu herupā), 世話をする人 (せわをするひと, sewa o suru hito)
• Korean: 간병인(看病人) (ganbyeong'in), 돌보는 사람 (dolboneun saram)
• Latvian: aprūpētājs m
• Maori: kaitiaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støttekontakt (no) m (for a mentally disabled person)

• Polish: opiekun (pl) m, opiekunka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cuidador m
• Romanian: îngrijitor (ro) m, îngrijitoare (ro) f
• Russian: сиде́лка (ru) f (sidélka), ня́ня (ru) f (njánja), ня́нька (ru) f (njánʹka), медсестра́ (ru) f (medsestrá); медбра́т (ru) m (medbrát); тот, кто уха́живает (tot, kto uxáživajet)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: skrbnik (sh) m, staratelj (sh) m, njegovatelj (sh) m

• Spanish: cuidador m
• Vietnamese: người chăm sóc

Anagrams

• Cerra, Crear, crare, racer

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

carer

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of carrer

Conjugation

Conjugation of carer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	carer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	carant /ka.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caré /ka.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	care /kaʁ/	cares /kaʁ/	care /kaʁ/	carons /ka.ʁɔ̃/	carez /ka.ʁe/	carent /kaʁ/
	imperfect	carais /ka.ʁɛ/	carais /ka.ʁɛ/	carait /ka.ʁɛ/	carions /ka.ʁjɔ̃/	cariez /ka.ʁje/	caraient /ka.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	carai /ka.ʁe/	caras /ka.ʁa/	cara /ka.ʁa/	carâmes /ka.ʁam/	carâtes /ka.ʁat/	carèrent /ka.ʁɛʁ/
	future	carerai /ka.ʁə.ʁe/	careras /ka.ʁə.ʁa/	carera /ka.ʁə.ʁa/	carerons /ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	carerez /ka.ʁə.ʁe/	careront /ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	carerais /ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	carerais /ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	carerait /ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	carerions /ka.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	careriez /ka.ʁə.ʁje/	careraient /ka.ʁə.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	care /kaʁ/	cares /kaʁ/	care /kaʁ/	carions /ka.ʁjɔ̃/	cariez /ka.ʁje/	carent /kaʁ/
	imperfect2	carasse /ka.ʁas/	carasses /ka.ʁas/	carât /ka.ʁa/	carassions /ka.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	carassiez /ka.ʁa.sje/	carassent /ka.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	care /kaʁ/	—	carons /ka.ʁɔ̃/	carez /ka.ʁe/	—
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).

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarɛr/, (South Wales also) /ˈkaːrɛr/

Verb

carer

1. (literary) impersonal subjunctive/imperative of caru

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
carer	garer	ngharer	charer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.