biner

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

biner (plural biners)

1. abbreviation of carabiner

Anagrams

• Brien, brine, rebin

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *bināre ("to do something twice; to work the land twice"), from a derivative of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bīnī, from bis ("twice, two times"). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish binar ("to plow over").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ne/

Verb

biner

1. (agriculture) to hoe
2. (religion) to binate, celebrate mass twice in one day

Conjugation

Conjugation of biner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	biner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	binant /bi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		biné /bi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bine /bin/	bines /bin/	bine /bin/	binons /bi.nɔ̃/	binez /bi.ne/	binent /bin/
	imperfect	binais /bi.nɛ/	binais /bi.nɛ/	binait /bi.nɛ/	binions /bi.njɔ̃/	biniez /bi.nje/	binaient /bi.nɛ/
	past historic2	binai /bi.ne/	binas /bi.na/	bina /bi.na/	binâmes /bi.nam/	binâtes /bi.nat/	binèrent /bi.nɛʁ/
	future	binerai /bin.ʁe/	bineras /bin.ʁa/	binera /bin.ʁa/	binerons /bin.ʁɔ̃/	binerez /bin.ʁe/	bineront /bin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	binerais /bin.ʁɛ/	binerais /bin.ʁɛ/	binerait /bin.ʁɛ/	binerions /bi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bineriez /bi.nə.ʁje/	bineraient /bin.ʁɛ/
(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	bine /bin/	bines /bin/	bine /bin/	binions /bi.njɔ̃/	biniez /bi.nje/	binent /bin/
	imperfect2	binasse /bi.nas/	binasses /bi.nas/	binât /bi.na/	binassions /bi.na.sjɔ̃/	binassiez /bi.na.sje/	binassent /bi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bine /bin/	—	binons /bi.nɔ̃/	binez /bi.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• binot
• binoter

Further reading

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