manufacturer

English

Etymology

From manufacture +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚɚ/, [ˌmɛənjəˈfækt͡ʃɚɚ]
- Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: man‧u‧fac‧tur‧er

Noun

manufacturer (plural manufacturers)

A person or company that manufactures.
The manufacturer produces parts for the car industry.

Always return faulty goods to the manufacturer.

The clothing manufacturer expanded overseas.

Derived terms

Translations

a person or company that manufactures

Afrikaans: fabrikant sg
Albanian: prodhues (sq) m, fabrikant (sq) m
Arabic: صَانِع m (ṣāniʕ), مُصَنِّع m (muṣanniʕ)
Armenian: արտադրող (artadroġ)
Azerbaijani: istehsalçı (az)
Belarusian: вытво́рца m (vytvórca), племянні́к m (pljemjanník)
Bulgarian: производи́тел m (proizvodítel), производи́телка f (proizvodítelka)
Catalan: fabricant (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 製作者 / 制作者 (zh) (zhìzuòzhě), 製造者 / 制造者 (zh) (zhìzàozhě)
Czech: výrobce (cs) m, výrobkyně f
Danish: fabrikant c, producent c
Dutch: fabrikant (nl) m
Estonian: tootja
Finnish: valmistaja (fi)
French: fabricant (fr) m, fabricante (fr) f
Galician: fabricante (gl) m
Georgian: მწარმოებელი (mc̣armoebeli)
German: Hersteller (de) m, Herstellerin (de) f, Produzent (de) m, Produzentin (de) f, Erzeuger (de) m, Erzeugerin (de) f
Greek: παραγωγός (el) m (paragogós), κατασκευαστής (el) m (kataskevastís)
Hindi: उत्पादक (hi) m (utpādak)
Hungarian: gyártó (hu)
Irish: déantóir m
Italian: produttore (it) m
Japanese: メーカー (ja) (mēkā), 製造業者 (せいぞうぎょうしゃ, seizōgyōsha), 生産者 (ja) (せいさんしゃ, seisansha)
Kazakh: өндіруші (öndıruşı)
Korean: 제조자(製造者) (ko) (jejoja), 제작자(製作者) (ko) (jejakja), 생산자(生産者) (ko) (saengsanja)
Kyrgyz: өндүрүүчү (öndürüücü)
Lao: ຜູ້ຜະລິດ (phū pha lit)
Latvian: ražotājs m, ražotāja f
Lithuanian: gamintojas (lt) m
Macedonian: производител m (proizvoditel), производителка f (proizvoditelka)
Malayalam: നിർമ്മാതാവ് (ml) (niṟmmātāvŭ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fabrikant (no) m, produsent (no) m

Nynorsk: fabrikant m, produsent m
Persian: تُولیدکُنَندِه (fa) (towlidkonande), سازَندِه (fa) (sâzande), صانِع (fa) (sâne')
Polish: fabrykant (pl) m, fabrykantka (pl) f, wytwórca (pl) m, producent (pl) m, producentka f
Portuguese: fabricante (pt) m
Romanian: fabricant (ro), fabricantă (ro) f, producător (ro), producătoare (ro) f
Russian: производи́тель (ru) m (proizvodítelʹ), производи́тельница (ru) f (proizvodítelʹnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: произво̀ђа̄ч m, произвођа̀чица f

Roman: proizvòđāč (sh) m, proizvođàčica (sh) f
Slovak: výrobca m, výrobkyňa f
Slovene: proizvajalec m, proizvajalka f, izdelovalec m, izdelovalka f
Spanish: fabricante (es) m or f, fabriquero (es) m
Swedish: tillverkare (sv) c, fabrikant (sv) c
Tajik: тавлидкунанда (tavlidkunanda), истеҳсолкунанда (istehsolkunanda)
Thai: ผู้ผลิต (th) (pûu-pà-lìt)
Turkish: üretici (tr)
Ukrainian: виробни́к (uk) m (vyrobnýk), виробни́ця f (vyrobnýcja)
Urdu: صانِع m (sāne')
Uzbek: ishlab chiqaruvchi
Vietnamese: người sản xuất

French

Etymology

From manufacture +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)

Verb

manufacturer

(dated) to manufacture

Conjugation

Conjugation of manufacturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	manufacturer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	manufacturant /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		manufacturé /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufactures /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacturons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɔ̃/	manufacturez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/	manufacturent /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/
	imperfect	manufacturais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/	manufacturais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/	manufacturait /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/	manufacturions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	manufacturiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁje/	manufacturaient /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic²	manufacturai /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/	manufacturas /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/	manufactura /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/	manufacturâmes /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁam/	manufacturâtes /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁat/	manufacturèrent /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	manufacturerai /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	manufactureras /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	manufacturera /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	manufacturerons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	manufacturerez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	manufactureront /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	manufacturerais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	manufacturerais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	manufacturerait /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	manufacturerions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	manufactureriez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	manufactureraient /ma.ny.fak.ty.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	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufactures /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	manufacturions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	manufacturiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁje/	manufacturent /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	manufacturasse /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/	manufacturasses /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/	manufacturât /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/	manufacturassions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	manufacturassiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa.sje/	manufacturassent /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/	—	manufacturons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɔ̃/	manufacturez /ma.ny.fak.ty.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).

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