binge-watcher
English edit
Etymology edit
binge-watch + -er
Noun edit
binge-watcher (plural binge-watchers)
- One who binge-watches a television programme.
- 2012 August 12, William Loeffler, “Are you a binge TVer?”, in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
- The market is adjusting to binge-watchers. Family Video has seasons of "24," "Prison Break" and "Boston Legal" available on DVD.
- 2014 February 18, William Wun, “‘House of Cards’ finds avid audience in China”, in The Washington Post:
- But its in-house translators have raced to append Chinese subtitles, finishing Chinese captions for two new episodes a day since then. That hasn’t stopped some binge-watchers from racing ahead.
- 2014 May 6, James Rampton, “24: Live Another Day – Kiefer Sutherland on the return of Jack Bauer”, in The Independent:
- The un-killable Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer, who in the interim has remained hugely popular with DVD "binge-watchers", returns after a four-year hiatus to try to foil another terrorist plot that threatens to bring about the end of Western civilisation as we know it.
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from English binge-watcher.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
binge-watcher m (plural binge-watchers, feminine binge-watcheuse)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English binge-watch + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
- (colloquial) to binge-watch
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of binge-watcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | binge-watcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | binge-watchant /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | binge-watché /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | binge-watche /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
binge-watches /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
binge-watche /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
binge-watchons /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɔ̃/ |
binge-watchez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃe/ |
binge-watchent /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
| imperfect | binge-watchais /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɛ/ |
binge-watchais /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɛ/ |
binge-watchait /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɛ/ |
binge-watchions /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃjɔ̃/ |
binge-watchiez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃje/ |
binge-watchaient /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | binge-watchai /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃe/ |
binge-watchas /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃa/ |
binge-watcha /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃa/ |
binge-watchâmes /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃam/ |
binge-watchâtes /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃat/ |
binge-watchèrent /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | binge-watcherai /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁe/ |
binge-watcheras /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁa/ |
binge-watchera /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁa/ |
binge-watcherons /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
binge-watcherez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁe/ |
binge-watcheront /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | binge-watcherais /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
binge-watcherais /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
binge-watcherait /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
binge-watcherions /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
binge-watcheriez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.ʁje/ |
binge-watcheraient /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃə.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 | binge-watche /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
binge-watches /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
binge-watche /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
binge-watchions /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃjɔ̃/ |
binge-watchiez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃje/ |
binge-watchent /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | binge-watchasse /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃas/ |
binge-watchasses /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃas/ |
binge-watchât /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃa/ |
binge-watchassions /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
binge-watchassiez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃa.sje/ |
binge-watchassent /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | binge-watche /bin.ʒwɔtʃ/ |
— | binge-watchons /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃɔ̃/ |
binge-watchez /bin.ʒwɔt.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||