skier
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
NounEdit
skier (plural skiers)
- One who skis.
TranslationsEdit
someone who practices skiing
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Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
NounEdit
skier (plural skiers)
- (cricket) A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.
- 2002, Jeff Green, "New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style", Cricinfo:
- However, when Guha returned, she picked the wrong ball to pull and hit a skier to Charlotte Edwards.
- 2012, Harry Pearson, "There's always a catch – unless it's me or Monty underneath the ball", The Guardian:
- The second thing I did my best to get out of was the unpleasant position Monty found himself in rather too often in Sri Lanka: standing under a skier in the deep.
- 2002, Jeff Green, "New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style", Cricinfo:
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
skier
- to ski
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of skier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | skiant /skjɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | skié /skje/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | skier | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | skiant /skjɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | skie /ski/ |
skies /ski/ |
skie /ski/ |
skions /skjɔ̃/ |
skiez /skje/ |
skient /ski/ |
| imperfect | skiais /skjɛ/ |
skiais /skjɛ/ |
skiait /skjɛ/ |
skiions /ski.jɔ̃/ |
skiiez /ski.je/ |
skiaient /skjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | skiai /skje/ |
skias /skja/ |
skia /skja/ |
skiâmes /skjam/ |
skiâtes /skjat/ |
skièrent /skjɛʁ/ | |
| future | skierai /ski.ʁe/ |
skieras /ski.ʁa/ |
skiera /ski.ʁa/ |
skierons /ski.ʁɔ̃/ |
skierez /ski.ʁe/ |
skieront /ski.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | skierais /ski.ʁɛ/ |
skierais /ski.ʁɛ/ |
skierait /ski.ʁɛ/ |
skierions /ski.ʁjɔ̃/ |
skieriez /ski.ʁje/ |
skieraient /ski.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 | skie /ski/ |
skies /ski/ |
skie /ski/ |
skiions /ski.jɔ̃/ |
skiiez /ski.je/ |
skient /ski/ |
| imperfect2 | skiasse /skjas/ |
skiasses /skjas/ |
skiât /skja/ |
skiassions /skja.sjɔ̃/ |
skiassiez /skja.sje/ |
skiassent /skjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | skie /ski/ |
— | skions /skjɔ̃/ |
skiez /skje/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further readingEdit
- “skier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).