brailler
See also: Brailler
English
Noun
brailler (plural braillers)
- (technology) A typewriter used to emboss paper with braille cells to be read by the visually impaired instead of using a manual stylus.
- 2005, Jean E. Olmstead, Itinerant teaching (page 190)
- Use pads under braillers to reduce noise and under reading-writing stands to counteract sliding.
- 2005, Jean E. Olmstead, Itinerant teaching (page 190)
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *bragulare, from Latin bragere. Compare braire. Cognate with the English bray.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɑ.je/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of brailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | braillant /bʁɑ.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | braillé /bʁɑ.je/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | brailler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | braillant /bʁɑ.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | braille /bʁɑj/ |
brailles /bʁɑj/ |
braille /bʁɑj/ |
braillons /bʁɑ.jɔ̃/ |
braillez /bʁɑ.je/ |
braillent /bʁɑj/ |
| imperfect | braillais /bʁɑ.jɛ/ |
braillais /bʁɑ.jɛ/ |
braillait /bʁɑ.jɛ/ |
braillions /bʁɑj.jɔ̃/ |
brailliez /bʁɑj.je/ |
braillaient /bʁɑ.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | braillai /bʁɑ.je/ |
braillas /bʁɑ.ja/ |
brailla /bʁɑ.ja/ |
braillâmes /bʁɑ.jam/ |
braillâtes /bʁɑ.jat/ |
braillèrent /bʁɑ.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | braillerai /bʁɑj.ʁe/ |
brailleras /bʁɑj.ʁa/ |
braillera /bʁɑj.ʁa/ |
braillerons /bʁɑj.ʁɔ̃/ |
braillerez /bʁɑj.ʁe/ |
brailleront /bʁɑj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | braillerais /bʁɑj.ʁɛ/ |
braillerais /bʁɑj.ʁɛ/ |
braillerait /bʁɑj.ʁɛ/ |
braillerions /bʁɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
brailleriez /bʁɑ.jə.ʁje/ |
brailleraient /bʁɑj.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 | braille /bʁɑj/ |
brailles /bʁɑj/ |
braille /bʁɑj/ |
braillions /bʁɑj.jɔ̃/ |
brailliez /bʁɑj.je/ |
braillent /bʁɑj/ |
| imperfect2 | braillasse /bʁɑ.jas/ |
braillasses /bʁɑ.jas/ |
braillât /bʁɑ.ja/ |
braillassions /bʁɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
braillassiez /bʁɑ.ja.sje/ |
braillassent /bʁɑ.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | braille /bʁɑj/ |
— | braillons /bʁɑ.jɔ̃/ |
braillez /bʁɑ.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “brailler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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