grainer
English
Etymology
Noun
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Verb
grainer
Conjugation
Conjugation of grainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | grainer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | grainant /ɡʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | grainé /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
graines /ɡʁɛn/ |
graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nɔ̃/ |
grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/ |
grainent /ɡʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/ |
grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/ |
grainait /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/ |
grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.njɔ̃/ |
grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/ or /ɡʁe.nje/ |
grainaient /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | grainai /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/ |
grainas /ɡʁɛ.na/ or /ɡʁe.na/ |
graina /ɡʁɛ.na/ or /ɡʁe.na/ |
grainâmes /ɡʁɛ.nam/ or /ɡʁe.nam/ |
grainâtes /ɡʁɛ.nat/ or /ɡʁe.nat/ |
grainèrent /ɡʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɡʁe.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/ or /ɡʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
graineriez /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɡʁe.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/ or /ɡʁe.njɔ̃/ |
grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/ or /ɡʁe.nje/ |
grainent /ɡʁɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | grainasse /ɡʁɛ.nas/ or /ɡʁe.nas/ |
grainasses /ɡʁɛ.nas/ or /ɡʁe.nas/ |
grainât /ɡʁɛ.na/ or /ɡʁe.na/ |
grainassions /ɡʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.na.sjɔ̃/ |
grainassiez /ɡʁɛ.na.sje/ or /ɡʁe.na.sje/ |
grainassent /ɡʁɛ.nas/ or /ɡʁe.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | graine /ɡʁɛn/ |
— | grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nɔ̃/ |
grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “grainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.