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Etymology 1
mine + -er
Noun
miner (plural miners)
- A person who works in a mine.
The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.
2005, David G. Atwill, “Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese”, in The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:Hui from Lin’an—especially those from the village of Huilong—were famously skilled miners and traveled long distances to work mines throughout the province.
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
- Coordinate term: staker
2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian:The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.
- (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
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Translations
person who works in a mine
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Aragonese: menero m
- Armenian: հանքափոր (hy) (hankʻapʻor)
- Basque: meatzari (eu)
- Belarusian: шахцёр m (šaxcjór), гарня́к m (harnják)
- Bulgarian: миньо́р m (minjór), руднича́р m (rudničár)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: minaire (ca) m or f, miner (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 礦工/矿工 (zh) (kuànggōng), 礦夫/矿夫 (zh) (kuàngfū)
- Czech: havíř (cs) m, horník (cs) m
- Danish: minearbejder c, grubearbejder c
- Dutch: mijnwerker (nl) m
- Esperanto: ministo
- Estonian: kaevur
- Finnish: kaivosmies (fi), kaivostyöläinen (fi), mainari (fi)
- French: mineur (fr) m
- Galician: mineiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მეშახტე (mešaxṭe)
- German: Bergmann (de) m, Bergarbeiter (de) m
- Greek: μεταλλωρύχος (el) (metallorýchos)
- Ancient: μεταλλευτής m (metalleutḗs)
- Hebrew: כורה m
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: bányász (hu), vájár (hu)
- Icelandic: námumaður m
- Irish: mianadóir m
- Italian: minatore (it) m
- Japanese: 鉱夫 (ja) (こうふ, kōfu), 坑夫 (ja) (こうふ, kōfu), 鉱山労働者 (kouzanroudousha)
- Korean: 광부(鑛夫) (ko) (gwangbu)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: metallārius m
- Latvian: kalnracis m, ogļracis m
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: Mineur m
- Macedonian: рудар m (rudar)
- Maori: kaihuke
- Mòcheno: knòpp m
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gruvearbeider m
- Nynorsk: gruvearbeidar m
- Occitan: minaire (oc) m
- Old English: delfere m
- Ottoman Turkish: معدنجی (maʿdenci)
- Persian: کارگر معدن (kârgar-e ma'dan), معدنچی (ma'danči)
- Polish: górnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: mineiro (pt) m
- Romanian: miner (ro) m, mineră f (rare), mineriță (ro) f
- Russian: шахтёр (ru) m (šaxtjór), горня́к (ru) m (gornják)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ру̀да̄р m
- Roman: rùdār (sh) m
- Silesian: grubjorz m, bergmůn m
- Slovak: baník m
- Slovene: rudar (sl) m
- Spanish: minero (es) m
- Swedish: gruvarbetare (sv) c
- Tagalog: mandudulang
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: madenci (tr)
- Ukrainian: шахта́р m (šaxtár), гірни́к m (hirnýk)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: thợ mỏ
- Volapük: (♂♀) meinan (vo), (♂) himeinan, (♀) jimeinan
- Welsh: mwynwr m, cloddiwr m
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operator of mines and other explosives
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Etymology 2
From myna
Noun
miner (plural miners)
- Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
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Translations
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From mina + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
miner m (plural miners, feminine minera)
- miner (a person who works in a mine)
- Synonym: minaire
Noun
miner m (plural miners)
- miner (bird of the genus Geositta)
Further reading
Danish
Noun
miner c
- indefinite plural of mine
French
Etymology
From mine.
Pronunciation
Verb
miner
- to mine, exploit natural riches
- (transitive) to undermine; to erode
Conjugation
infinitive
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simple
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miner
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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minant /mi.nɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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miné /mi.ne/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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mine /min/
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mines /min/
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mine /min/
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minons /mi.nɔ̃/
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minez /mi.ne/
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minent /min/
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imperfect
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minais /mi.nɛ/
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minais /mi.nɛ/
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minait /mi.nɛ/
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minions /mi.njɔ̃/
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miniez /mi.nje/
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minaient /mi.nɛ/
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past historic2
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minai /mi.ne/
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minas /mi.na/
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mina /mi.na/
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minâmes /mi.nam/
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minâtes /mi.nat/
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minèrent /mi.nɛʁ/
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future
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minerai /min.ʁe/
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mineras /min.ʁa/
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minera /min.ʁa/
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minerons /min.ʁɔ̃/
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minerez /min.ʁe/
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mineront /min.ʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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minerais /min.ʁɛ/
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minerais /min.ʁɛ/
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minerait /min.ʁɛ/
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minerions /mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/
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mineriez /mi.nə.ʁje/
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mineraient /min.ʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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mine /min/
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mines /min/
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mine /min/
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minions /mi.njɔ̃/
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miniez /mi.nje/
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minent /min/
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imperfect2
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minasse /mi.nas/
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minasses /mi.nas/
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minât /mi.na/
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minassions /mi.na.sjɔ̃/
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minassiez /mi.na.sje/
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minassent /mi.nas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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mine /min/
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—
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minons /mi.nɔ̃/
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minez /mi.ne/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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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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Latin
Verb
miner
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
miner m or f
- indefinite plural of mine
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
miner f
- indefinite plural of mine
Verb
miner
- present of mina
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French mineur.
Pronunciation
Noun
miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)
- miner (person who works in a mine)
Declension
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Swedish
Noun
miner
- indefinite plural of min