vanner
See also: vänner
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
vanner (plural vanners)
- One who owns and drives a van.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
vanner (plural vanners)
- A machine for concentrating ore.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin vannāre, from Latin vannere, vannō.
Verb edit
vanner
- (agriculture, transitive) to winnow
- (transitive) to shake about, jolt, jostle
- (transitive) to scrutinise (analyse thoroughly)
- (colloquial) to knacker, tire out, flush
- (cooking) to stir (a sauce or soup) to avoid the formation of a skin
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of vanner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vanner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vannant /va.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vanné /va.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vanne /van/ |
vannes /van/ |
vanne /van/ |
vannons /va.nɔ̃/ |
vannez /va.ne/ |
vannent /van/ |
| imperfect | vannais /va.nɛ/ |
vannais /va.nɛ/ |
vannait /va.nɛ/ |
vannions /va.njɔ̃/ |
vanniez /va.nje/ |
vannaient /va.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vannai /va.ne/ |
vannas /va.na/ |
vanna /va.na/ |
vannâmes /va.nam/ |
vannâtes /va.nat/ |
vannèrent /va.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | vannerai /van.ʁe/ |
vanneras /van.ʁa/ |
vannera /van.ʁa/ |
vannerons /van.ʁɔ̃/ |
vannerez /van.ʁe/ |
vanneront /van.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vannerais /van.ʁɛ/ |
vannerais /van.ʁɛ/ |
vannerait /van.ʁɛ/ |
vannerions /va.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vanneriez /va.nə.ʁje/ |
vanneraient /van.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 | vanne /van/ |
vannes /van/ |
vanne /van/ |
vannions /va.njɔ̃/ |
vanniez /va.nje/ |
vannent /van/ |
| imperfect2 | vannasse /va.nas/ |
vannasses /va.nas/ |
vannât /va.na/ |
vannassions /va.na.sjɔ̃/ |
vannassiez /va.na.sje/ |
vannassent /va.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vanne /van/ |
— | vannons /va.nɔ̃/ |
vannez /va.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From vanne (“floodgate”) + -er.
Verb edit
vanner
- (transitive) to provide [a river] with sluice gates or floodgates
Etymology 3 edit
From etymology 1, and later from vanne (“wisecrack”) + -er.
Verb edit
vanner
- (intransitive) to kid, joke, crack jokes
- Synonym: déconner
- (transitive, colloquial) to kid, tease, rib someone
- Synonym: chambrer
Further reading edit
- “vanner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Verb edit
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