chainer

English

Etymology

From chain +‎ -er.

Noun

chainer (plural chainers)

1. One who chains.

Anagrams

• Cherian, archine, reachin', rechain

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛ.ne/ ~ /ʃe.ne/

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Verb

chainer

1. post-1990 spelling of chaîner

Conjugation

Conjugation of chainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chainant /ʃɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ʃe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chainé /ʃɛ.ne/ or /ʃe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chaine /ʃɛn/	chaines /ʃɛn/	chaine /ʃɛn/	chainons /ʃɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ʃe.nɔ̃/	chainez /ʃɛ.ne/ or /ʃe.ne/	chainent /ʃɛn/
	imperfect	chainais /ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ʃe.nɛ/	chainais /ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ʃe.nɛ/	chainait /ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ʃe.nɛ/	chainions /ʃɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ʃe.njɔ̃/	chainiez /ʃɛ.nje/ or /ʃe.nje/	chainaient /ʃɛ.nɛ/ or /ʃe.nɛ/
	past historic2	chainai /ʃɛ.ne/ or /ʃe.ne/	chainas /ʃɛ.na/ or /ʃe.na/	chaina /ʃɛ.na/ or /ʃe.na/	chainâmes /ʃɛ.nam/ or /ʃe.nam/	chainâtes /ʃɛ.nat/ or /ʃe.nat/	chainèrent /ʃɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ʃe.nɛʁ/
	future	chainerai /ʃɛn.ʁe/	chaineras /ʃɛn.ʁa/	chainera /ʃɛn.ʁa/	chainerons /ʃɛn.ʁɔ̃/	chainerez /ʃɛn.ʁe/	chaineront /ʃɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chainerais /ʃɛn.ʁɛ/	chainerais /ʃɛn.ʁɛ/	chainerait /ʃɛn.ʁɛ/	chainerions /ʃɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	chaineriez /ʃɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ʃe.nə.ʁje/	chaineraient /ʃɛn.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	chaine /ʃɛn/	chaines /ʃɛn/	chaine /ʃɛn/	chainions /ʃɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ʃe.njɔ̃/	chainiez /ʃɛ.nje/ or /ʃe.nje/	chainent /ʃɛn/
	imperfect2	chainasse /ʃɛ.nas/ or /ʃe.nas/	chainasses /ʃɛ.nas/ or /ʃe.nas/	chainât /ʃɛ.na/ or /ʃe.na/	chainassions /ʃɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.na.sjɔ̃/	chainassiez /ʃɛ.na.sje/ or /ʃe.na.sje/	chainassent /ʃɛ.nas/ or /ʃe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chaine /ʃɛn/	—	chainons /ʃɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ʃe.nɔ̃/	chainez /ʃɛ.ne/ or /ʃe.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).

Further reading

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