shunter

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shunt +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

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shunter (plural shunters)

  1. (rail transport, British) A railway locomotive used for shunting; a switcher.
    • 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
      Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.
  2. (rail transport, British) A person who carries out shunting operations.
    • 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
      The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
  3. (finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).

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Verb[edit]

shunter

  1. (electrics) to shunt

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of shunter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple shunter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple shuntant
/ʃœ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle shunté
/ʃœ̃.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present shunte
/ʃœ̃t/ 		shuntes
/ʃœ̃t/ 		shunte
/ʃœ̃t/ 		shuntons
/ʃœ̃.tɔ̃/ 		shuntez
/ʃœ̃.te/ 		shuntent
/ʃœ̃t/
imperfect shuntais
/ʃœ̃.tɛ/ 		shuntais
/ʃœ̃.tɛ/ 		shuntait
/ʃœ̃.tɛ/ 		shuntions
/ʃœ̃.tjɔ̃/ 		shuntiez
/ʃœ̃.tje/ 		shuntaient
/ʃœ̃.tɛ/
past historic2 shuntai
/ʃœ̃.te/ 		shuntas
/ʃœ̃.ta/ 		shunta
/ʃœ̃.ta/ 		shuntâmes
/ʃœ̃.tam/ 		shuntâtes
/ʃœ̃.tat/ 		shuntèrent
/ʃœ̃.tɛʁ/
future shunterai
/ʃœ̃.tʁe/ 		shunteras
/ʃœ̃.tʁa/ 		shuntera
/ʃœ̃.tʁa/ 		shunterons
/ʃœ̃.tʁɔ̃/ 		shunterez
/ʃœ̃.tʁe/ 		shunteront
/ʃœ̃.tʁɔ̃/
conditional shunterais
/ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ 		shunterais
/ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ 		shunterait
/ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ 		shunterions
/ʃœ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		shunteriez
/ʃœ̃.tə.ʁje/ 		shunteraient
/ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present shunte
/ʃœ̃t/ 		shuntes
/ʃœ̃t/ 		shunte
/ʃœ̃t/ 		shuntions
/ʃœ̃.tjɔ̃/ 		shuntiez
/ʃœ̃.tje/ 		shuntent
/ʃœ̃t/
imperfect2 shuntasse
/ʃœ̃.tas/ 		shuntasses
/ʃœ̃.tas/ 		shuntât
/ʃœ̃.ta/ 		shuntassions
/ʃœ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		shuntassiez
/ʃœ̃.ta.sje/ 		shuntassent
/ʃœ̃.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — shunte
/ʃœ̃t/ 		— shuntons
/ʃœ̃.tɔ̃/ 		shuntez
/ʃœ̃.te/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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