interviewer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-der.

Old French entre-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *widēō

Latin videō

Old French veoir

Old French entreveoir

Old French entreveue

English interview

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

▲

Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English interviewer

From interview + -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəvjuːə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

interviewer (plural interviewers)

1. One who interviews.
   • 2001, Foster Hirsh, quoting Woody Allen, Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen‎^[1]:

     “I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”

   • 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 54:

     "I am glad to know you preserve that old signal box at the top of the incline. Is it not the oldest in Scotland?" an interviewer asks John Conacher, General Manager of the North British Railway, in 1898.

Derived terms

• intervieweress

Related terms

• interviewee (a person who is interviewed)

Descendants

• → Dutch: interviewer
• → French: interviewer
• → German: Interviewer
• → Japanese: インタビュアー (intabyuā)
• → Russian: интервью́ер (intɛrvʹjújer)

Translations

one who interviews

• Albanian: intervistues m, intervistuese f
• Asturian: entrevistador m
• Catalan: entrevistador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 訪問者 / 访问者 (zh) (fǎngwènzhě)

• Dutch: interviewer (nl) m, interviewster (nl) f
• Esperanto: intervjuisto
• Finnish: haastattelija (fi)
• French: intervieweur (fr) m, intervieweuse (fr) f
• Galician: entrevistador m, entrevistadora f
• German: Befrager (de) m, Befragerin (de) f, Interviewer (de) m, Interviewerin (de) f
• Icelandic: spyrill (is) m, spyrjandi m
• Ido: interviuvanto (io)
• Italian: intervistatore (it) m, intervistatrice (it) f
• Japanese: インタビュアー (ja) (intabyuā), 会見者 (かいけんしゃ, kakkensha)
• Korean: 면접관(面接官) (myeonjeopgwan)
• Kyrgyz: маекчи (mayekci)
• Macedonian: интервју́ер m (intervjúer), интервју́ерка f (intervjúerka)
• Malay: penemu duga
• Manx: co-akiner m
• Māori: kaipatapatai, kaiuiui
• Polish: przeprowadzający wywiad m, przeprowadzająca wywiad f
• Portuguese: entrevistador (pt) m, entrevistadora (pt) f
• Russian: интервью́ер (ru) m (intɛrvʹjújer), опра́шивающий (ru) m (oprášivajuščij)
• Spanish: entrevistador (es) m, entrevistadora f
• Turkish: röportajcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: інтерв'юе́р m (intervʺjuér), інтерв'юе́рка f (intervʺjuérka), інтерв'ює́р m (intervʺjujér), інтерв'ює́рка f (intervʺjujérka)
• Volapük: (♂♀) bespikan, (♂) hibespikan, (♀) jibespikan
• Welsh: cyfwelydd (cy) m

Anagrams

• reinterview

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntərˌvjuːər/

• Audio:

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Noun

interviewer m (plural interviewers, diminutive interviewertje n)

1. a male interviewer

Related terms

• interviewen
• herinterviewen
• interview
• interviewster
• geïnterviewde

French

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-der.

Old French entre-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *widēō

Latin videō

Old French veoir

Old French entreveoir

Old French entreveue

English interviewbor.

French interview

Proto-Italic *-āzi

▲

Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Old French -ier

Middle French -er

French -er

French interviewer

From interview (noun) +‎ -er (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve/, /in.tɛʁ.vju.ve/, (anglicized) /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.we/

• Audio:

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Verb

interviewer

1. to interview

Conjugation

Conjugation of interviewer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	interviewer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	interviewant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		interviewé /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	interviewe /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	interviewes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	interviewe /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	interviewons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɔ̃/	interviewez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve/	interviewent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/
	imperfect	interviewais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɛ/	interviewais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɛ/	interviewait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɛ/	interviewions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vjɔ̃/	interviewiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vje/	interviewaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɛ/
	past historic2	interviewai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve/	interviewas /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.va/	interviewa /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.va/	interviewâmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vam/	interviewâtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vat/	interviewèrent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɛʁ/
	future	interviewerai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁe/	intervieweras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁa/	interviewera /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁa/	interviewerons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁɔ̃/	interviewerez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁe/	intervieweront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	interviewerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁɛ/	interviewerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁɛ/	interviewerait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁɛ/	interviewerions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.və.ʁjɔ̃/	intervieweriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.və.ʁje/	intervieweraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vʁɛ/
(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	interviewe /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	interviewes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	interviewe /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	interviewions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vjɔ̃/	interviewiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vje/	interviewent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/
	imperfect2	interviewasse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vas/	interviewasses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vas/	interviewât /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.va/	interviewassions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.va.sjɔ̃/	interviewassiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.va.sje/	interviewassent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	interviewe /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjuv/	—	interviewons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vɔ̃/	interviewez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve/	—
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).

Derived terms

• intervieweur, intervieweuse

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-der.

Old French entre-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *widēō

Latin videō

Old French veoir

Old French entreveoir

Old French entreveue

English interview

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

▲

Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English interviewerubor.

French interviewer

Unadapted borrowing from English interviewer.

Alternative forms

• intervieweur (post-1990 spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ/, /in.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ/, (anglicized) /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.wœʁ/

Noun

interviewer m (plural interviewers, feminine intervieweuse)

1. interviewer

Further reading

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