paver

See also: påver

English

Etymology

pave +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪvɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

Concrete paver blocks

paver (plural pavers)

1. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.

   Synonyms: paver block, paving block, paving stone, flagstone

   red brick pavers

2. One who paves; one who lays pavement.

Translations

stone used for paving

• Bulgarian: паве (bg) n (pave)
• Catalan: llamborda (ca) f, llambordí m, ginqueta f (Algherese)
• German: Pflasterstein (de) m
• Hungarian: térkő, burkolókő (hu), útburkoló kő
• Polish: bruk (pl) m
• Spanish: adoquín (es) m, pavés m

one who paves

• Bulgarian: павьор m (pavjor)
• French: paveur (fr) m
• German: Pflasterer m, Plattenleger, Fliesenleger (de) m
• Hungarian: útburkoló (hu)
• Polish: brukarz (pl) m

Anagrams

• parev, parve, vaper

Danish

Noun

paver c

1. indefinite plural of pave

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”), from Proto-Italic *pawjō, from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ve/

• Audio:

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Verb

paver

1. to cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something similar
2. (Canada, Quebec) to pave in any sense (including with asphalt, etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of paver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	paver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pavant /pa.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pavé /pa.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pave /pav/	paves /pav/	pave /pav/	pavons /pa.vɔ̃/	pavez /pa.ve/	pavent /pav/
	imperfect	pavais /pa.vɛ/	pavais /pa.vɛ/	pavait /pa.vɛ/	pavions /pa.vjɔ̃/	paviez /pa.vje/	pavaient /pa.vɛ/
	past historic2	pavai /pa.ve/	pavas /pa.va/	pava /pa.va/	pavâmes /pa.vam/	pavâtes /pa.vat/	pavèrent /pa.vɛʁ/
	future	paverai /pa.vʁe/	paveras /pa.vʁa/	pavera /pa.vʁa/	paverons /pa.vʁɔ̃/	paverez /pa.vʁe/	paveront /pa.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paverais /pa.vʁɛ/	paverais /pa.vʁɛ/	paverait /pa.vʁɛ/	paverions /pa.və.ʁjɔ̃/	paveriez /pa.və.ʁje/	paveraient /pa.vʁɛ/
(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	pave /pav/	paves /pav/	pave /pav/	pavions /pa.vjɔ̃/	paviez /pa.vje/	pavent /pav/
	imperfect2	pavasse /pa.vas/	pavasses /pa.vas/	pavât /pa.va/	pavassions /pa.va.sjɔ̃/	pavassiez /pa.va.sje/	pavassent /pa.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pave /pav/	—	pavons /pa.vɔ̃/	pavez /pa.ve/	—
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).

Related terms

• pavement

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

paver m

1. indefinite plural of pave