# assistent
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.sisˈten]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.sisˈtent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.sisˈtent]

### Noun

assistent m (plural assistents, feminine assistenta)
* assistant, aid
    (cyclism) soigneur
* attendee

#### Related terms

* assistència
* assistir

### Further reading

* “assistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “assistent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “assistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “assistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Etymology

From Latin assistens.

### Noun

assistent c (singular definite assistenten, plural indefinite assistenter)
* assistant

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “assistent” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assistēns, active participle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɑ.siˈstɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: as‧sis‧tent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

assistent m (plural assistenten, diminutive assistentje n, feminine assistente)
* assistant, person who assists, aid

#### Usage notes

* Often enters as first term in copulative compounds, the second term (after a -) specifying which assistance the person lends or rather who receives assistance.

#### Synonyms

* adjunct m
* helper m

#### Derived terms

* assistentie
* hoofdassistent m
* persoonlijk assistent m
* troonassistent m

#### Descendants

* → Caribbean Javanese: asistèn
* → Indonesian: asisten
* → Peranakan Indonesian: assistent

## Estonian
### Noun

assistent (genitive assistendi, partitive assistenti)
* assistant
    Synonyms: abiline, asetäitja

#### Declension
### Further reading

* assistent in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.sist/

### Verb

assistent
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of assister

### Anagrams

* attinsses

## Latin
### Verb

assistent
* third-person plural future active indicative of assistō

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin assistens.

### Noun

assistent m (definite singular assistenten, indefinite plural assistenter, definite plural assistentene)
* an assistant

#### Synonyms

* medhjelper

#### Related terms

* assistere

### References

* “assistent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin assistens.

### Noun

assistent m (definite singular assistenten, indefinite plural assistentar, definite plural assistentane)
* an assistant

#### Synonyms

* medhjelpar

### References

* “assistent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Peranakan Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch assistent (“assistent”).

### Adjective

assistent
* assistant
    Anem djam sabelon diboeka itoe persidangan assistent resident Bandoeng telah oendang satoe anggota bestuur T.H.H.K. Bandoeng dan satoe oetoesan dari Soerabaja boeat dateng di kantoornja. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

### References

* ↑ Kwee Hing Tjiat (1921) Doea Kapala Batoe [Two Hardheaded (Persons)] (in Peranakan Indonesian), Nauer & Dimmick, page 34

## Swedish
### Etymology

From assistera +‎ -ent. Stand mixer sense is a genericized trademark from the Electrolux kitchen appliance Assistent.

### Noun

assistent c
* an assistant (person who assists), a clerical officer
    Synonym: hjälpare
* a stand mixer (stationary electric mixer)
    Synonym: hushållsassistent
* (computing) a wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)
    Synonym: guide

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | assistent | assistents |
| singular | definite | assistenten | assistentens |
| plural | indefinite | assistenter | assistenters |
| plural | definite | assistenterna | assistenternas |

#### See also

* elvisp (“hand mixer”)

### References

* assistent in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* assistent in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* assistent in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ Utrikes namnbok (7th ed., 2007) →ISBN