rafiner

French

Verb

rafiner

1. Alternative form of raffiner

Conjugation

Conjugation of rafiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rafiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rafinant /ʁa.fi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rafiné /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	rafine /ʁa.fin/	rafines /ʁa.fin/	rafine /ʁa.fin/	rafinons /ʁa.fi.nɔ̃/	rafinez /ʁa.fi.ne/	rafinent /ʁa.fin/
	imperfect	rafinais /ʁa.fi.nɛ/	rafinais /ʁa.fi.nɛ/	rafinait /ʁa.fi.nɛ/	rafinions /ʁa.fi.njɔ̃/	rafiniez /ʁa.fi.nje/	rafinaient /ʁa.fi.nɛ/
	past historic2	rafinai /ʁa.fi.ne/	rafinas /ʁa.fi.na/	rafina /ʁa.fi.na/	rafinâmes /ʁa.fi.nam/	rafinâtes /ʁa.fi.nat/	rafinèrent /ʁa.fi.nɛʁ/
	future	rafinerai /ʁa.fin.ʁe/	rafineras /ʁa.fin.ʁa/	rafinera /ʁa.fin.ʁa/	rafinerons /ʁa.fin.ʁɔ̃/	rafinerez /ʁa.fin.ʁe/	rafineront /ʁa.fin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rafinerais /ʁa.fin.ʁɛ/	rafinerais /ʁa.fin.ʁɛ/	rafinerait /ʁa.fin.ʁɛ/	rafinerions /ʁa.fi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	rafineriez /ʁa.fi.nə.ʁje/	rafineraient /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	rafine /ʁa.fin/	rafines /ʁa.fin/	rafine /ʁa.fin/	rafinions /ʁa.fi.njɔ̃/	rafiniez /ʁa.fi.nje/	rafinent /ʁa.fin/
	imperfect2	rafinasse /ʁa.fi.nas/	rafinasses /ʁa.fi.nas/	rafinât /ʁa.fi.na/	rafinassions /ʁa.fi.na.sjɔ̃/	rafinassiez /ʁa.fi.na.sje/	rafinassent /ʁa.fi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rafine /ʁa.fin/	—	rafinons /ʁa.fi.nɔ̃/	rafinez /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).

Related terms

• rafinerie

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈfi.nɛr/
• Rhymes: -inɛr
• Syllabification: ra‧fi‧ner

Noun

rafiner m pers

1. refiner (refinery worker)
2. (technology) refiner (paper machine in which the fibres are pre-milled)

Declension

Declension of rafiner

	singular	plural
nominative	rafiner	rafinerzy/rafinery (deprecative)
genitive	rafinera	rafinerów
dative	rafinerowi	rafinerom
accusative	rafinera	rafinerów
instrumental	rafinerem	rafinerami
locative	rafinerze	rafinerach
vocative	rafinerze	rafinerzy

Related terms

adjectives

• rafinadowy
• rafinerowy
• rafineryjny
• wyrafinowany

 

nouns

• rafinacja
• rafinada
• rafinat
• rafinator
• rafineria
• wyrafinowanie

 

verbs

• rafinować impf
• wyrafinować pf
• zrafinować pf

 

Further reading

• rafiner in Polish dictionaries at PWN