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From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell + -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).
seller (plural sellers)
- Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
Alisha was a seller of fine books.
- Something which sells.
Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:
Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.
terms derived from seller (1)
terms derived from seller (2)
someone who sells
- Albanian: shitës (sq) m, shitëse (sq) f
- Arabic: بَائِع m (bāʔiʕ), بَائِعَة f (bāʔiʕa)
- Armenian: վաճառող (hy) (vačaṙoġ)
- Azerbaijani: satıcı (az)
- Bashkir: һатыусы (hatıwsı)
- Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca), гандля́р m (handljár), гандля́рка f (handljárka)
- Bengali: বিক্রেতা (bn) (bikreta)
- Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč), продава́чка f (prodaváčka)
- Burmese: ရောင်းသူ (raung:su)
- Catalan: venedor (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: prodavač (cs) m, prodavačka (cs) f, prodejce (cs) m, prodejkyně f, prodávající (cs) m or f
- Danish: sælger (da) c, sælgerinde f (female), sælgerske c (female), forsælger c, forsælgerske f (female)
- Dutch: verkoper (nl) m, verkoopster (nl) f
- Esperanto: vendisto, virvendisto (male), vendistiĉo (male, neologism), vendistino (female)
- Estonian: müüja
- Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi)
- French: vendeur (fr) m, vendeuse (fr) f
- Friulian: venditôr m
- Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli)
- German: Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
- Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)
- Greenlandic: -erniaq
- Hebrew: מוֹכֵר (he) m (mokhér), מוֹכֶרֶת f
- Hindi: बेचने वाला m (becne vālā), विक्रेता (hi) m (vikretā)
- Hungarian: eladó (hu), árus (hu)
- Ido: vendisto (io), vendistulo (io) (male), vendistino (io) (female)
- Indonesian: penjual (id)
- Ingrian: mööjä
- Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f
- Japanese: 売り手 (ja) (うりて, urite), 販売者 (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
- Kazakh: сатушы (satuşy)
- Khmer: អ្នកលក់ (nĕək lŭək)
- Korean: 판매인(販賣人) (panmaein), 파는 사람 (paneun saram)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: сатуучу (ky) (satuucu)
- Lao: ຜູ້ຂາຍ (phū khāi)
- Latin: vēnditor m, vēnditrīx f
- Latvian: pārdevējs (lv) m, pārdevēja f
- Lithuanian: pardavėjas (lt) m, pardavėja f
- Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
- Malay: penjual (ms)
- Malayalam: വ്യാപാരി (ml) (vyāpāri), വിൽപ്പനക്കാരൻ m (vilppanakkāraṉ)
- Middle English: sellere
- Mongolian:
- Norman: vendeux m, vend'rêsse f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: selger (no) m, selgerinne m or f (female), forselger m
- Nynorsk: seljar m, seljarinne f (female), forseljar m
- Occitan: vendeire (oc) m, vendeira f
- Ottoman Turkish: بایع (bayiʼ)
- Pashto: بايع (ps) m (bāye'), خرڅوونکی m (xarčawunkay), پرولونکی m (prolunkay)
- Persian: فروشنده (fa) (forušande)
- Polish: sprzedawca (pl) m, sprzedawczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: vendedor (pt) m, vendedora (pt) f
- Romanian: vânzător (ro) m, vânzătoare (ro) f
- Russian: продаве́ц (ru) m (prodavéc), продавщи́ца (ru) f (prodavščíca), торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec), торго́вка (ru) f (torgóvka), ве́ндор (ru) m (véndor), ве́ндор (ru) m (vɛ́ndor) (vendor, neologism)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прода̀ва̄ч m, продава̀чица f
- Roman: prodàvāč (sh) m, prodavàčica (sh) f
- Slovak: predavač m, predavačka f, predajca m
- Slovene: prodajalec m, prodajalka f
- Southern Altai: садучы (sadučï)
- Spanish: vendedor (es) m, vendedora (es) f
- Swahili: mwuzaji
- Swedish: försäljare (sv) c, försäljerska (sv) c (female), säljare (sv) c, säljerska c (female)
- Tagalog: tagapagbili
- Tajik: фурӯшанда (tg) (furüšanda)
- Tatar: сатучы (tt) (satuçı)
- Thai: ผู้ขาย (pûu-kǎai)
- Turkish: satıcı (tr), bayi (tr)
- Turkmen: satyjy
- Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja), торго́вець m (torhóvecʹ)
- Urdu: بچنے والا m (becne vālā)
- Uyghur: ساتقۇچى (satquchi)
- Uzbek: sotuvchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: người bán
- Volapük: selan (vo), hiselan (male), jiselan (female)
- Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער m (farkoyfer), פֿאַרקויפֿערין f (farkoyferin)
Alternative forms.
seller (plural sellers)
seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)
Declension of seller (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | seller | sellerid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | selleri | ||
genitive | sellerite | ||
partitive | sellerit | sellereid | |
illative | sellerisse | selleritesse sellereisse | |
inessive | selleris | sellerites sellereis | |
elative | sellerist | selleritest sellereist | |
allative | sellerile | selleritele sellereile | |
adessive | selleril | selleritel sellereil | |
ablative | sellerilt | selleritelt sellereilt | |
translative | selleriks | selleriteks sellereiks | |
terminative | sellerini | selleriteni | |
essive | sellerina | selleritena | |
abessive | sellerita | selleriteta | |
comitative | selleriga | selleritega |
seller
- to saddle
1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLVII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.
- Calling aside the innkeeper, they ordered him to saddle Rossinante and to put a packsaddle on the donkey, which he did with diligence.
infinitive | simple | seller | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | sellant /sɛ.lɑ̃/ or /se.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | sellé /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | selle /sɛl/ |
selles /sɛl/ |
selle /sɛl/ |
sellons /sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /se.lɔ̃/ |
sellez /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ |
sellent /sɛl/ |
imperfect | sellais /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ |
sellais /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ |
sellait /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ |
sellions /sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /se.ljɔ̃/ |
selliez /sɛ.lje/ or /se.lje/ |
sellaient /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | sellai /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ |
sellas /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/ |
sella /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/ |
sellâmes /sɛ.lam/ or /se.lam/ |
sellâtes /sɛ.lat/ or /se.lat/ |
sellèrent /sɛ.lɛʁ/ or /se.lɛʁ/ | |
future | sellerai /sɛl.ʁe/ |
selleras /sɛl.ʁa/ |
sellera /sɛl.ʁa/ |
sellerons /sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
sellerez /sɛl.ʁe/ |
selleront /sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | sellerais /sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
sellerais /sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
sellerait /sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
sellerions /sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
selleriez /sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /se.lə.ʁje/ |
selleraient /sɛl.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 | selle /sɛl/ |
selles /sɛl/ |
selle /sɛl/ |
sellions /sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /se.ljɔ̃/ |
selliez /sɛ.lje/ or /se.lje/ |
sellent /sɛl/ |
imperfect2 | sellasse /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/ |
sellasses /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/ |
sellât /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/ |
sellassions /sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /se.la.sjɔ̃/ |
sellassiez /sɛ.la.sje/ or /se.la.sje/ |
sellassent /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | selle /sɛl/ |
— | sellons /sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /se.lɔ̃/ |
sellez /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ |
— | |
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). |
- “seller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
seller
- Alternative form of sellere
seller
seller
- indefinite plural of selle m or f
- indefinite plural of selle m
seller m
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger
seller
seller f
Cognate to German selbig (“the same (one)”).
seller
- that, that one
Declension of seller | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
nominative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
dative | sellem, sem | sellere, sellre, seller | sellem, sem | selle |
accusative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
seller
- that
- 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:
- sell Haus datt driwwe
- that house over there
- […]
- In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.
- In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.
- sell Haus datt driwwe
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:seller.
- 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:
Declension of seller | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
nominative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
dative | sellem, sem | sellere, sellre, seller | sellem, sem | selle |
accusative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
seller
- Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204