anser

See also: Anser

French

Etymology

From anse (“handle”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.se/

Verb

anser

1. (transitive) to fix a handle (to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of anser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	anser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ansant /ɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ansé /ɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anse /ɑ̃s/	anses /ɑ̃s/	anse /ɑ̃s/	ansons /ɑ̃.sɔ̃/	ansez /ɑ̃.se/	ansent /ɑ̃s/
	imperfect	ansais /ɑ̃.sɛ/	ansais /ɑ̃.sɛ/	ansait /ɑ̃.sɛ/	ansions /ɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	ansiez /ɑ̃.sje/	ansaient /ɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	ansai /ɑ̃.se/	ansas /ɑ̃.sa/	ansa /ɑ̃.sa/	ansâmes /ɑ̃.sam/	ansâtes /ɑ̃.sat/	ansèrent /ɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	anserai /ɑ̃.sʁe/	anseras /ɑ̃.sʁa/	ansera /ɑ̃.sʁa/	anserons /ɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	anserez /ɑ̃.sʁe/	anseront /ɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	anserais /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/	anserais /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/	anserait /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/	anserions /ɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	anseriez /ɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	anseraient /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	anse /ɑ̃s/	anses /ɑ̃s/	anse /ɑ̃s/	ansions /ɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	ansiez /ɑ̃.sje/	ansent /ɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	ansasse /ɑ̃.sas/	ansasses /ɑ̃.sas/	ansât /ɑ̃.sa/	ansassions /ɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	ansassiez /ɑ̃.sa.sje/	ansassent /ɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anse /ɑ̃s/	—	ansons /ɑ̃.sɔ̃/	ansez /ɑ̃.se/	—
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).

Further reading

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

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Latin

anser (a goose)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hanser, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Cognates include Sanskrit हंस (haṃsa), Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Russian гусь (gusʹ), Old Irish géiss, Old English gōs (English goose), and Albanian gatë (“heron”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ser/, [ˈä̃ːs̠ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ser/, [ˈänser]

Noun

ānser m (genitive ānseris); third declension

1. goose

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ānser	ānserēs
Genitive	ānseris	ānserum
Dative	ānserī	ānseribus
Accusative	ānserem	ānserēs
Ablative	ānsere	ānseribus
Vocative	ānser	ānserēs

Derived terms

• ānserculus
• ānserīnus

Descendants

• Esperanto: ansero
• Old Galician-Portuguese: anssar
• Spanish: ánsar
• Translingual: Anser

References

• “anser”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anser”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• anser in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anser”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anser”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

anser

1. (deprecated template usage) present of anse

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Swedish

Verb

anser

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of anse.

Anagrams

• Arnes, arens, enars, erans, rasen, reans, renas, rensa, resan, snare