grainer
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ̯.nə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ̯.nɚ/
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
grainer (plural grainers)
- A knife for taking the hair off skins.
- An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
- One who grains (paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc).
- A brush or tool used for such painting.
- (rail transportation, US) A type of railroad car that carries grain.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grainer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
grainer
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of grainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | grainer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | grainant /ɡʁɛ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | grainé /ɡʁɛ.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
graines /ɡʁɛn/ |
graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/ |
grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/ |
grainent /ɡʁɛn/ |
imperfect | grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ |
grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ |
grainait /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ |
grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/ |
grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/ |
grainaient /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | grainai /ɡʁɛ.ne/ |
grainas /ɡʁɛ.na/ |
graina /ɡʁɛ.na/ |
grainâmes /ɡʁɛ.nam/ |
grainâtes /ɡʁɛ.nat/ |
grainèrent /ɡʁɛ.nɛʁ/ | |
future | grainerai /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/ |
graineras /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/ |
grainera /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/ |
grainerons /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
grainerez /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/ |
graineront /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | grainerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
grainerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
grainerait /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
grainerions /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
graineriez /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ |
graineraient /ɡʁɛn.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 | graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
graines /ɡʁɛn/ |
graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/ |
grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/ |
grainent /ɡʁɛn/ |
imperfect2 | grainasse /ɡʁɛ.nas/ |
grainasses /ɡʁɛ.nas/ |
grainât /ɡʁɛ.na/ |
grainassions /ɡʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
grainassiez /ɡʁɛ.na.sje/ |
grainassent /ɡʁɛ.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
— | grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/ |
grainez /ɡʁɛ.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “grainer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).