transférant

Transférant is a French term formed from the verb transférer with the agentive suffix -ant. It can function as the present participle meaning “transferring,” and less commonly as a noun meaning “the transferrer” or “the party that transfers.” In legal and administrative language, the more standard designation for the party who transfers rights or property is cédant (transferor) or, in some contexts, the donateur or donneur; thus transférant as a noun is relatively rare and often appears in formal or descriptive passages.

In usage, transférant is primarily encountered as a participle (“en transférant les droits”) or as a somewhat literary or bureaucratic noun. When used as a noun, it denotes the actor responsible for effecting a transfer, rather than the recipient (often referred to as cessionnaire or bénéficiaire). The feminine form is transférante, and the plural forms are transférants or transférantes, depending on gender.

Etymology traces transférant to transférer, with the suffix -ant producing a present participle or nominal agent. In contemporary French, many writers prefer more precise terms such as cédant for the transferor or cessionnaire for the recipient, while transférant remains a valid, though less common, option in certain documents.

See also: transfer, transfert, cédant, cessionnaire, donateur, transférer.