vanner

See also: vänner

English

Etymology 1

van (“vehicle”) +‎ -er

Noun

vanner (plural vanners)

1. One who owns and drives a van.

Etymology 2

van (“wash oar”) +‎ -er

Noun

vanner (plural vanners)

1. A machine for concentrating ore.

Derived terms

• Frue vanner

Anagrams

• Vänern

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ne/

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin vannāre, from Latin vannere, vannō.

Verb

vanner

1. (agriculture, transitive) to winnow
2. (transitive) to shake about, jolt, jostle
3. (transitive) to scrutinise (analyse thoroughly)
4. (colloquial) to knacker, tire out, flush
5. (cooking) to stir (a sauce or soup) to avoid the formation of a skin

Conjugation

Conjugation of vanner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vanner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vannant /va.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vanné /va.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vanne /van/	vannes /van/	vanne /van/	vannons /va.nɔ̃/	vannez /va.ne/	vannent /van/
	imperfect	vannais /va.nɛ/	vannais /va.nɛ/	vannait /va.nɛ/	vannions /va.njɔ̃/	vanniez /va.nje/	vannaient /va.nɛ/
	past historic2	vannai /va.ne/	vannas /va.na/	vanna /va.na/	vannâmes /va.nam/	vannâtes /va.nat/	vannèrent /va.nɛʁ/
	future	vannerai /van.ʁe/	vanneras /van.ʁa/	vannera /van.ʁa/	vannerons /van.ʁɔ̃/	vannerez /van.ʁe/	vanneront /van.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vannerais /van.ʁɛ/	vannerais /van.ʁɛ/	vannerait /van.ʁɛ/	vannerions /va.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	vanneriez /va.nə.ʁje/	vanneraient /van.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	vanne /van/	vannes /van/	vanne /van/	vannions /va.njɔ̃/	vanniez /va.nje/	vannent /van/
	imperfect2	vannasse /va.nas/	vannasses /va.nas/	vannât /va.na/	vannassions /va.na.sjɔ̃/	vannassiez /va.na.sje/	vannassent /va.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vanne /van/	—	vannons /va.nɔ̃/	vannez /va.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).

Derived terms

• fourche à vanner
• vannage
• vannure

Etymology 2

From vanne (“floodgate”) +‎ -er.

Verb

vanner

1. (transitive) to provide [a river] with sluice gates or floodgates

Etymology 3

From etymology 1, and later from vanne (“wisecrack”) +‎ -er.

Verb

vanner

1. (intransitive) to kid, joke, crack jokes

   Synonym: déconner

2. (transitive, colloquial) to kid, tease, rib someone

   Synonym: chambrer

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vanner

1. present of vanne