paraffiner

English

Etymology

paraffin +‎ -er.

Noun

paraffiner (plural paraffiners)

1. A machine for sealing a product in paraffin wax.

French

Etymology

From paraffine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁa.fi.ne/

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Verb

paraffiner

1. to paraffin

Conjugation

Conjugation of paraffiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	paraffiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	paraffinant /pa.ʁa.fi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paraffiné /pa.ʁa.fi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	paraffine /pa.ʁa.fin/	paraffines /pa.ʁa.fin/	paraffine /pa.ʁa.fin/	paraffinons /pa.ʁa.fi.nɔ̃/	paraffinez /pa.ʁa.fi.ne/	paraffinent /pa.ʁa.fin/
	imperfect	paraffinais /pa.ʁa.fi.nɛ/	paraffinais /pa.ʁa.fi.nɛ/	paraffinait /pa.ʁa.fi.nɛ/	paraffinions /pa.ʁa.fi.njɔ̃/	paraffiniez /pa.ʁa.fi.nje/	paraffinaient /pa.ʁa.fi.nɛ/
	past historic2	paraffinai /pa.ʁa.fi.ne/	paraffinas /pa.ʁa.fi.na/	paraffina /pa.ʁa.fi.na/	paraffinâmes /pa.ʁa.fi.nam/	paraffinâtes /pa.ʁa.fi.nat/	paraffinèrent /pa.ʁa.fi.nɛʁ/
	future	paraffinerai /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁe/	paraffineras /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁa/	paraffinera /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁa/	paraffinerons /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁɔ̃/	paraffinerez /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁe/	paraffineront /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paraffinerais /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁɛ/	paraffinerais /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁɛ/	paraffinerait /pa.ʁa.fin.ʁɛ/	paraffinerions /pa.ʁa.fi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	paraffineriez /pa.ʁa.fi.nə.ʁje/	paraffineraient /pa.ʁa.fin.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	paraffine /pa.ʁa.fin/	paraffines /pa.ʁa.fin/	paraffine /pa.ʁa.fin/	paraffinions /pa.ʁa.fi.njɔ̃/	paraffiniez /pa.ʁa.fi.nje/	paraffinent /pa.ʁa.fin/
	imperfect2	paraffinasse /pa.ʁa.fi.nas/	paraffinasses /pa.ʁa.fi.nas/	paraffinât /pa.ʁa.fi.na/	paraffinassions /pa.ʁa.fi.na.sjɔ̃/	paraffinassiez /pa.ʁa.fi.na.sje/	paraffinassent /pa.ʁa.fi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	paraffine /pa.ʁa.fin/	—	paraffinons /pa.ʁa.fi.nɔ̃/	paraffinez /pa.ʁa.fi.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “paraffiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.