# attaché
## English
### Alternative forms

* attache

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈtæʃeɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌætæˈʃeɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### Noun

attaché (plural attachés)
* A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.
    Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.
** 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

#### Derived terms

* attaché case
* attachéship
* military attaché

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ.tɑˈʃeː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: at‧ta‧che
* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

attaché m (plural attachés, diminutive attacheetje n, feminine attachee)
* attaché

#### Derived terms

* attachékoffer

#### Related terms

* attacheren

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: atase

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ta.ʃe/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)
* attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired
    Synonyms: fixé (“fixed”), lié (“linked”)

#### Derived terms

* attaché-case
* rattaché

### Noun

attaché m (plural attachés, feminine attachée)
* attaché, attache (employment of civil servant in several administrations)
    Un attaché à la Bibliothèque nationale. ― An attaché to the National Library.
    Un attaché au cabinet d’un ministre. ― An attaché to the office of a minister.
** 1937 March, Georges Simenon, chapter II, in Le Blanc à lunettes [The Bespectacled White Man], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:Mon mari est attaché militaire à l’ambassade anglaise d’Ankara.My husband is military attaché to the British Embassy in Ankara.

#### Derived terms

* attaché de presse

### Participle

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)
* past participle of attacher

#### Descendants

* → English: attaché
* → Dutch: attaché
** → Indonesian: atase
* → German: Attaché
* → Polish: attaché
* → Russian: атташе́ (attašé)
** → Georgian: ატაშე (aṭaše)
** → Kazakh: атташе (attaşe)
* → Serbo-Croatian: ataše
* → Swedish: attaché
* → Turkish: ataşe

### Further reading

* “attaché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* achetât, tacheta

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.taˈʂɛ/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: a‧tta‧ché

### Noun

attaché m pers (indeclinable)
* (diplomacy, politics) attaché (diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role)

#### Related terms

* ataszat

### Further reading

* attaché in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* attaché in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* attaché in PWN's encyclopedia

## Swedish
### Etymology

From French attaché.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

attaché c
* attaché

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | attaché | attachés |
| singular | definite | attachén | attachéns |
| plural | indefinite | attachéer | attachéers |
| plural | definite | attachéerna | attachéernas |