staffer
English
Etymology
Noun
staffer (plural staffers or staff)
- A member of a staff; an employee.
- The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.
- 2025 April 25, Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”, in CNN[1]:
- But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.
Translations
member of a staff
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta.fe/
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Verb
staffer
- (transitive) to cover with staff (the building material)
Conjugation
Conjugation of staffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | staffer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | staffant /sta.fɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | staffé /sta.fe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | staffe /staf/ |
staffes /staf/ |
staffe /staf/ |
staffons /sta.fɔ̃/ |
staffez /sta.fe/ |
staffent /staf/ |
| imperfect | staffais /sta.fɛ/ |
staffais /sta.fɛ/ |
staffait /sta.fɛ/ |
staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/ |
staffiez /sta.fje/ |
staffaient /sta.fɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | staffai /sta.fe/ |
staffas /sta.fa/ |
staffa /sta.fa/ |
staffâmes /sta.fam/ |
staffâtes /sta.fat/ |
staffèrent /sta.fɛʁ/ | |
| future | stafferai /sta.fʁe/ |
stafferas /sta.fʁa/ |
staffera /sta.fʁa/ |
stafferons /sta.fʁɔ̃/ |
stafferez /sta.fʁe/ |
stafferont /sta.fʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/ |
stafferais /sta.fʁɛ/ |
stafferait /sta.fʁɛ/ |
stafferions /sta.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
stafferiez /sta.fə.ʁje/ |
stafferaient /sta.fʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | staffe /staf/ |
staffes /staf/ |
staffe /staf/ |
staffions /sta.fjɔ̃/ |
staffiez /sta.fje/ |
staffent /staf/ |
| imperfect2 | staffasse /sta.fas/ |
staffasses /sta.fas/ |
staffât /sta.fa/ |
staffassions /sta.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
staffassiez /sta.fa.sje/ |
staffassent /sta.fas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | staffe /staf/ |
— | staffons /sta.fɔ̃/ |
staffez /sta.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “staffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.