informant

== English == === Etymology === From inform +‎ -ant. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɔːmənt/ (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/ === Noun === informant (plural informants) One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer. (linguistics, proscribed in the US and Canada) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:informant Preferred linguistic term in the US and Canada: consultant ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === name names == Catalan == === Verb === informant gerund of informar == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fɔrˈmɑnt/ Hyphenation: in‧for‧mant Rhymes: -ɑnt === Noun === informant m (plural informanten, diminutive informantje n) informer, informant == French == === Participle === informant present participle of informer === Further reading === “informant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Verb === īnfōrmant third-person plural present active indicative of īnfōrmō