definer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfaɪnə(ɹ)/
Noun
definer (plural definers)
- One who or that which defines something, or provides a definition.
- 2017, Celia Applegate, The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme, page 47:
- It served as a key definer of national character, which was in Zelter's time emerging out of a combination of folk and elite traditions […]
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:
- Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old French
Alternative forms
- defenir
- definir
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | definer | avoir definé | |||||
| gerund | en definant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | definant | ||||||
| past participle | definé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | defin | defines | define | definons | definez | definent |
| imperfect | definoie, defineie, definoe, defineve | definoies, defineies, definoes, defineves | definoit, defineit, definot, defineve | definiiens, definiens | definiiez, definiez | definoient, defineient, definoent, definevent | |
| preterite | definai | definas | defina | definames | definastes | definerent | |
| future | definerai | defineras | definera | definerons | defineroiz, definereiz, definerez | defineront | |
| conditional | defineroie, definereie | defineroies, definereies | defineroit, definereit | defineriiens, defineriens | defineriiez, defineriez | defineroient, definereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | defin | defins | defint | definons | definez | definent |
| imperfect | definasse | definasses | definast | definissons, definissiens | definissoiz, definissez, definissiez | definassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | define | — | definons | definez | — | ||
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (definer)
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