gainer

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English

Etymology

From gain +‎ -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gainer (plural gainers)

  1. One who gains a profit or advantage.
    • 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:
      … it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.
    • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi:
      Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.
  2. One who puts on weight.
  3. (diving, gymnastics, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.

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French

Etymology

From gaine.

Pronunciation

Verb

gainer

  1. to cover, sheathe

Conjugation

Conjugation of gainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple gainer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple gainant
/ɡɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɡe.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle gainé
/ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present gaine
/ɡɛn/ 		gaines
/ɡɛn/ 		gaine
/ɡɛn/ 		gainons
/ɡɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nɔ̃/ 		gainez
/ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/ 		gainent
/ɡɛn/
imperfect gainais
/ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ 		gainais
/ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ 		gainait
/ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ 		gainions
/ɡɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡe.njɔ̃/ 		gainiez
/ɡɛ.nje/ or /ɡe.nje/ 		gainaient
/ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/
past historic2 gainai
/ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/ 		gainas
/ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/ 		gaina
/ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/ 		gainâmes
/ɡɛ.nam/ or /ɡe.nam/ 		gainâtes
/ɡɛ.nat/ or /ɡe.nat/ 		gainèrent
/ɡɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɡe.nɛʁ/
future gainerai
/ɡɛn.ʁe/ 		gaineras
/ɡɛn.ʁa/ 		gainera
/ɡɛn.ʁa/ 		gainerons
/ɡɛn.ʁɔ̃/ 		gainerez
/ɡɛn.ʁe/ 		gaineront
/ɡɛn.ʁɔ̃/
conditional gainerais
/ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ 		gainerais
/ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ 		gainerait
/ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ 		gainerions
/ɡɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		gaineriez
/ɡɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɡe.nə.ʁje/ 		gaineraient
/ɡɛn.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 gaine
/ɡɛn/ 		gaines
/ɡɛn/ 		gaine
/ɡɛn/ 		gainions
/ɡɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡe.njɔ̃/ 		gainiez
/ɡɛ.nje/ or /ɡe.nje/ 		gainent
/ɡɛn/
imperfect2 gainasse
/ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/ 		gainasses
/ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/ 		gainât
/ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/ 		gainassions
/ɡɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.na.sjɔ̃/ 		gainassiez
/ɡɛ.na.sje/ or /ɡe.na.sje/ 		gainassent
/ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — gaine
/ɡɛn/ 		— gainons
/ɡɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nɔ̃/ 		gainez
/ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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