graver
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English gravere, gravoure, gravor, from Old English græfere, grafere (“graver; engraver; sculptor”), equivalent to grave (“to engrave”) + -er. Cognate with Dutch graveur, German Graveur, Danish gravør, Swedish gravör, Icelandic grafari.
Noun
graver (plural gravers)
Translations
burin
|
|
carver or engraver
|
|
Danish
Declension
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Frankish *graban, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną. Akin to English grave (“pit for burial”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁa.ve/
audio (file)
Conjugation
Conjugation of graver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | gravant /ɡʁa.vɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | gravé /ɡʁa.ve/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | graver | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | gravant /ɡʁa.vɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | grave /ɡʁav/ |
graves /ɡʁav/ |
grave /ɡʁav/ |
gravons /ɡʁa.vɔ̃/ |
gravez /ɡʁa.ve/ |
gravent /ɡʁav/ |
| imperfect | gravais /ɡʁa.vɛ/ |
gravais /ɡʁa.vɛ/ |
gravait /ɡʁa.vɛ/ |
gravions /ɡʁa.vjɔ̃/ |
graviez /ɡʁa.vje/ |
gravaient /ɡʁa.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gravai /ɡʁa.ve/ |
gravas /ɡʁa.va/ |
grava /ɡʁa.va/ |
gravâmes /ɡʁa.vam/ |
gravâtes /ɡʁa.vat/ |
gravèrent /ɡʁa.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | graverai /ɡʁa.vʁe/ |
graveras /ɡʁa.vʁa/ |
gravera /ɡʁa.vʁa/ |
graverons /ɡʁa.vʁɔ̃/ |
graverez /ɡʁa.vʁe/ |
graveront /ɡʁa.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | graverais /ɡʁa.vʁɛ/ |
graverais /ɡʁa.vʁɛ/ |
graverait /ɡʁa.vʁɛ/ |
graverions /ɡʁa.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
graveriez /ɡʁa.və.ʁje/ |
graveraient /ɡʁa.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | grave /ɡʁav/ |
graves /ɡʁav/ |
grave /ɡʁav/ |
gravions /ɡʁa.vjɔ̃/ |
graviez /ɡʁa.vje/ |
gravent /ɡʁav/ |
| imperfect2 | gravasse /ɡʁa.vas/ |
gravasses /ɡʁa.vas/ |
gravât /ɡʁa.va/ |
gravassions /ɡʁa.va.sjɔ̃/ |
gravassiez /ɡʁa.va.sje/ |
gravassent /ɡʁa.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | grave /ɡʁav/ |
— | gravons /ɡʁa.vɔ̃/ |
gravez /ɡʁa.ve/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “graver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative
Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.