cleaner
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English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.nə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkli.nɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffix).
Noun
cleaner (plural cleaners)
- A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
- A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- A substance used for cleaning; a cleaning agent.
- (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.)
- I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
- A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
Derived terms
Related terms
- (sense 3) cleanser
- take to the cleaners
Translations
person who cleans
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device that cleans
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substance used for cleaning
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professional laundry
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Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English clener, clenner, clanner, clannere, from Old English clǣnra, clǣnre (“cleaner, purer, clearer”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainiʀō (“daintier, more delicate”), from Proto-Germanic *klainizô (“shinier, finer, more splendid”), equivalent to clean + -er.
Adjective
cleaner
- comparative form of clean: more clean
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
cleaner
Conjugation
Conjugation of cleaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cleaner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cleanant /kli.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cleané /kli.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cleane /klin/ |
cleanes /klin/ |
cleane /klin/ |
cleanons /kli.nɔ̃/ |
cleanez /kli.ne/ |
cleanent /klin/ |
| imperfect | cleanais /kli.nɛ/ |
cleanais /kli.nɛ/ |
cleanait /kli.nɛ/ |
cleanions /kli.njɔ̃/ |
cleaniez /kli.nje/ |
cleanaient /kli.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cleanai /kli.ne/ |
cleanas /kli.na/ |
cleana /kli.na/ |
cleanâmes /kli.nam/ |
cleanâtes /kli.nat/ |
cleanèrent /kli.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | cleanerai /klin.ʁe/ |
cleaneras /klin.ʁa/ |
cleanera /klin.ʁa/ |
cleanerons /klin.ʁɔ̃/ |
cleanerez /klin.ʁe/ |
cleaneront /klin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cleanerais /klin.ʁɛ/ |
cleanerais /klin.ʁɛ/ |
cleanerait /klin.ʁɛ/ |
cleanerions /kli.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cleaneriez /kli.nə.ʁje/ |
cleaneraient /klin.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 | cleane /klin/ |
cleanes /klin/ |
cleane /klin/ |
cleanions /kli.njɔ̃/ |
cleaniez /kli.nje/ |
cleanent /klin/ |
| imperfect2 | cleanasse /kli.nas/ |
cleanasses /kli.nas/ |
cleanât /kli.na/ |
cleanassions /kli.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cleanassiez /kli.na.sje/ |
cleanassent /kli.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cleane /klin/ |
— | cleanons /kli.nɔ̃/ |
cleanez /kli.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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||