noun🔗Share情報提供者, 密告者One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer."The police relied on several informants to gather information about the drug trafficking operation. "警察は、麻薬密売作戦に関する情報を収集するために、複数の情報提供者に頼った。policegovernmentlawcommunicationinfoChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share情報提供者、ネイティブスピーカー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."For their research on the local dialect, the linguists relied heavily on several elderly informants from the village. "地元の方言に関する研究のため、言語学者は村の数人の年配のネイティブスピーカーに大きく頼った。languagelinguisticseducationpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
