entrainer

See also: entraîner

English

Etymology

entrain +‎ -er

Noun

entrainer (plural entrainers)

1. (chemistry) A substance used for entraining.

Anagrams

• Terrianne

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French

Verb

entrainer

1. Alternative spelling of entraîner

Usage notes

This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.

Conjugation

Conjugation of entrainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entrainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entrainant /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entrainé /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entraine /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	entraines /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	entraine /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	entrainons /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɔ̃/	entrainez /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.ne/	entrainent /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/
	imperfect	entrainais /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ/	entrainais /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ/	entrainait /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ/	entrainions /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.njɔ̃/	entrainiez /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nje/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nje/	entrainaient /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ/
	past historic2	entrainai /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.ne/	entrainas /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.na/	entraina /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.na/	entrainâmes /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nam/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nam/	entrainâtes /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nat/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nat/	entrainèrent /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛʁ/
	future	entrainerai /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁe/	entraineras /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁa/	entrainera /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁa/	entrainerons /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	entrainerez /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁe/	entraineront /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entrainerais /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁɛ/	entrainerais /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁɛ/	entrainerait /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.ʁɛ/	entrainerions /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	entraineriez /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nə.ʁje/	entraineraient /ɑ̃.tʁɛn.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	entraine /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	entraines /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	entraine /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	entrainions /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.njɔ̃/	entrainiez /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nje/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nje/	entrainent /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/
	imperfect2	entrainasse /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nas/	entrainasses /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nas/	entrainât /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.na/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.na/	entrainassions /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.na.sjɔ̃/	entrainassiez /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.na.sje/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.na.sje/	entrainassent /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nas/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entraine /ɑ̃.tʁɛn/	—	entrainons /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.nɔ̃/	entrainez /ɑ̃.tʁɛ.ne/ or /ɑ̃.tʁe.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

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