consumer
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːmə(r)
[edit] Noun
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Plural |
consumer (plural consumers)
- One who, or that which, consumes.
- (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
- (biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
[edit] Antonyms
- (economics) and (biology): producer
[edit] Translations
person purchasing goods
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[edit] See also
biology
- carnivore
- decomposer
- detritivore
- first-order consumer
- herbivore
- omnivore
- producer
- scavenger
- second-order consumer
[edit] French
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
consumer
- consume (to destroy completely)
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of consumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | consumer | avoir consumé | |||||
| gerund | en consumant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | consumant | ||||||
| past participle | consumé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | consume | consumes | consume | consumons | consumez | consument |
| imperfect | consumais | consumais | consumait | consumions | consumiez | consumaient | |
| past historic | consumai | consumas | consuma | consumâmes | consumâtes | consumèrent | |
| future | consumerai | consumeras | consumera | consumerons | consumerez | consumeront | |
| conditional | consumerais | consumerais | consumerait | consumerions | consumeriez | consumeraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | consume | consumes | consume | consumions | consumiez | consument |
| imperfect | consumasse | consumasses | consumât | consumassions | consumassiez | consumassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | consume | — | consumons | consumez | — | ||
This French entry was created from the translations listed at consume. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see consumer in the French Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008
