trainer

See also: Trainer, traîner, and traïner

English

Etymology

train +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪnə/
• (US): enPR: trāʹnər, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪnɚ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

trainer (plural trainers)

1. A person who trains another; a coach.
   • 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 November 2016:

     It was [Roger] Federer’s ability to pull him around the court that put the lactic acid and debilitating weight in those legs and he should not have been allowed the luxury of his trainer’s help.

2. (sports) A person responsible for treating injuries sustained by players during matches; a physiotherapist.
   • 2009, Garth Dykes, Nelson FC in the Football League, page 22:

     He served Nelson wholeheartedly as a player, coach and trainer in a lengthy association, the highlights being his involvement in two championship-winning sides.

3. (Britain) A running shoe or sneaker.
4. (video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.
   • 2000, "Phil", I need trainer for version 1.10.021 (on newsgroup alt.games.rctycoon)

     I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.

   • 2001, "LJames4728", Good C64 Game Sites? (on newsgroup alt.c64)

     Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

5. (cycling) A piece of indoor equipment allowing a bicycle to be ridden while stationary.
6. attributive form of trainers

   There was chewing gum stuck to my trainer soles.

Synonyms

• (person who trains another; coach): coach
• (running shoe): dap (UK), plimsoll (UK), running shoe, tennis shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe

Derived terms

• personal trainer

Related terms

• train

Descendants

• → Cebuano: trainor
  • → English: trainor

Translations

person who trains another; coach

• Arabic: مُدَرِّب‎ (ar) m (mudarrib)
• Armenian: մարզիչ (hy) (marzičʿ)
• Belarusian: трэ́нер m (trénjer)
• Bulgarian: треньор m (trenjor)
• Catalan: entrenador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教練 (zh), 教练 (zh) (jiàoliàn), 教練員 (zh), 教练员 (zh) (jiàoliànyuán)

• Czech: trenér (cs) m
• Dutch: trainer (nl) m, trainster (nl) f
• Finnish: valmentaja (fi), kouluttaja (fi), harjoittaja (fi), urheiluvalmentaja (fi)
• French: entraîneur (fr) m
• Georgian: მწვრთნელი m (mc̣vrtneli)
• German: Trainer (de) m
• Greek: εκπαιδευτής (el) m (ekpaideftís)
• Hebrew: מְאַמֵּן‎ (he) (meamén) (of humans), מְאַלֵּף‎ (he) (mealéf) (of animals)

• Hungarian: tréner (hu), edző (hu)
• Italian: allenatore (it) m
• Japanese: トレーナー (ja) (torēnā), コーチ (ja) (kōchi)
• Korean: 트레이너 (teureineo), 코치 (ko) (kochi)
• Latin: exercitor m
• Malay: pelatih
• Maori: kaitereina
• Polish: trener (pl) m
• Portuguese: treinador (pt) m
• Romanian: antrenor (ro) m, coach (ro) m, trainer (ro) m
• Russian: тре́нер (ru) m (tréner)
• Slovak: tréner m
• Spanish: entrenador (es) m, amaestrador (es) m
• Swedish: tränare (sv)
• Ukrainian: тре́нер m (tréner)

running shoe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動鞋 (zh), 运动鞋 (zh) (yùndòngxié), 球鞋 (zh) (qiúxié)

• Finnish: juoksukenkä (fi), lenkkitossu (fi), lenkkari (fi)
• French: basket (fr) f
• Hungarian: tornacipő (hu)
• Japanese: スニーカー (sunīkā), 運動靴 (うんどうぐつ, undōgutsu)
• Korean: 운동화 (ko) (undonghwa)

• Norman: traîneur m
• Polish: adidas (pl) m
• Romanian: adidas m, tenis (ro) m
• Russian: кроссо́вка (ru) pl (krossóvka), сни́кер (ru) pl (sníker), ке́ды (ru) m pl or f pl (kédy)
• Scottish Gaelic: bròg-chleasachd f
• Spanish: tenis (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Danish: ^{(please verify)} træner (da) c
• German: ^{(please verify)} Trainer (de) m

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} శిక్షకుడు (te) (śikṣakuḍu)

Anagrams

• retrain, terrain

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Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

trainer m or f (plural trainers, diminutive trainertje n, feminine trainster)

1. trainer
2. coach

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French

Verb

trainer

1. Alternative spelling of traîner

Usage notes

• This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.

Conjugation

Conjugation of trainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trainant /tʁɛ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trainé /tʁɛ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	traine /tʁɛn/	traines /tʁɛn/	traine /tʁɛn/	trainons /tʁɛ.nɔ̃/	trainez /tʁɛ.ne/	trainent /tʁɛn/
	imperfect	trainais /tʁɛ.nɛ/	trainais /tʁɛ.nɛ/	trainait /tʁɛ.nɛ/	trainions /tʁɛ.njɔ̃/	trainiez /tʁɛ.nje/	trainaient /tʁɛ.nɛ/
	past historic2	trainai /tʁɛ.ne/	trainas /tʁɛ.na/	traina /tʁɛ.na/	trainâmes /tʁɛ.nam/	trainâtes /tʁɛ.nat/	trainèrent /tʁɛ.nɛʁ/
	future	trainerai /tʁɛn.ʁe/	traineras /tʁɛn.ʁa/	trainera /tʁɛn.ʁa/	trainerons /tʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	trainerez /tʁɛn.ʁe/	traineront /tʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trainerais /tʁɛn.ʁɛ/	trainerais /tʁɛn.ʁɛ/	trainerait /tʁɛn.ʁɛ/	trainerions /tʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	traineriez /tʁɛ.nə.ʁje/	traineraient /tʁɛn.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	traine /tʁɛn/	traines /tʁɛn/	traine /tʁɛn/	trainions /tʁɛ.njɔ̃/	trainiez /tʁɛ.nje/	trainent /tʁɛn/
	imperfect2	trainasse /tʁɛ.nas/	trainasses /tʁɛ.nas/	trainât /tʁɛ.na/	trainassions /tʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/	trainassiez /tʁɛ.na.sje/	trainassent /tʁɛ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	traine /tʁɛn/	—	trainons /tʁɛ.nɔ̃/	trainez /tʁɛ.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 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 reading

• “trainer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rentrai, ternira, terrain

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Old French

Alternative forms

• trahiner
• traïner (diaereses are not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, from *tragere (see treire), from Latin trahō, trahere (“I pull”).

Verb

trainer

1. to drag
   • circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Cligès':

     li rois antor le chastel fait
     traïner à .IIII. chevax
     les traïtors parmi les vax

     the king ordered that
     the traitors be dragged by four horses
     around the castle, among the valleys

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of trainer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		trainer			avoir trainé
gerund		en trainant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		trainant
past participle		trainé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	train	traines	traine	trainons	trainez	trainent
	imperfect	trainoie, traineie, trainoe, traineve	trainoies, traineies, trainoes, traineves	trainoit, traineit, trainot, traineve	trainiiens, trainiens	trainiiez, trainiez	trainoient, traineient, trainoent, trainevent
	preterite	trainai	trainas	traina	trainames	trainastes	trainerent
	future	trainerai	traineras	trainera	trainerons	traineroiz, trainereiz, trainerez	traineront
	conditional	traineroie, trainereie	traineroies, trainereies	traineroit, trainereit	traineriiens, traineriens	traineriiez, traineriez	traineroient, trainereient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	train	trains	traint	trainons	trainez	trainent
	imperfect	trainasse	trainasses	trainast	trainissons, trainissiens	trainissoiz, trainissez, trainissiez	trainassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	traine	—	trainons	trainez	—

Descendants

• English: train
• French: traîner
• Norman: traîner