financer

English

Etymology

finance +‎ -er

Noun

financer (plural financers)

1. (finance) An entity that provides financing
   • 2009 January 24, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Costs and Tighter Rules Thwart Refinancings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And only a select few borrowers with pristine credit can secure the most attractive rates: for the week that ended Jan. 15, rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage sank to 5.12 percent, the 11th consecutive weekly drop and the lowest rate since the big mortgage financer Freddie Mac began tracking them in 1971.

Anagrams

• Francien, Francine

Catalan

Etymology

From finança +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fi.nənˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fi.nanˈseɾ]

Adjective

financer (feminine financera, masculine plural financers, feminine plural financeres)

1. financial

Noun

financer m (plural financers, feminine financera)

1. banker, financier

   Synonym: banquer

Further reading

• “financer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.nɑ̃.se/

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Verb

financer

1. to fund

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of financer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	financer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	finançant /fi.nɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		financé /fi.nɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	finance /fi.nɑ̃s/	finances /fi.nɑ̃s/	finance /fi.nɑ̃s/	finançons /fi.nɑ̃.sɔ̃/	financez /fi.nɑ̃.se/	financent /fi.nɑ̃s/
	imperfect	finançais /fi.nɑ̃.sɛ/	finançais /fi.nɑ̃.sɛ/	finançait /fi.nɑ̃.sɛ/	financions /fi.nɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	financiez /fi.nɑ̃.sje/	finançaient /fi.nɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	finançai /fi.nɑ̃.se/	finanças /fi.nɑ̃.sa/	finança /fi.nɑ̃.sa/	finançâmes /fi.nɑ̃.sam/	finançâtes /fi.nɑ̃.sat/	financèrent /fi.nɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	financerai /fi.nɑ̃.sʁe/	financeras /fi.nɑ̃.sʁa/	financera /fi.nɑ̃.sʁa/	financerons /fi.nɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	financerez /fi.nɑ̃.sʁe/	financeront /fi.nɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	financerais /fi.nɑ̃.sʁɛ/	financerais /fi.nɑ̃.sʁɛ/	financerait /fi.nɑ̃.sʁɛ/	financerions /fi.nɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	financeriez /fi.nɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	financeraient /fi.nɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	finance /fi.nɑ̃s/	finances /fi.nɑ̃s/	finance /fi.nɑ̃s/	financions /fi.nɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	financiez /fi.nɑ̃.sje/	financent /fi.nɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	finançasse /fi.nɑ̃.sas/	finançasses /fi.nɑ̃.sas/	finançât /fi.nɑ̃.sa/	finançassions /fi.nɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	finançassiez /fi.nɑ̃.sa.sje/	finançassent /fi.nɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	finance /fi.nɑ̃s/	—	finançons /fi.nɑ̃.sɔ̃/	financez /fi.nɑ̃.se/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• francien, Francine