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English
Etymology
From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
Pronunciation
Noun
user (plural users)
- One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
- 2019, The Highway Code (United Kingdom) Road Users Requiring Extra Care
- The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is particularly important to be aware of children, older and disabled people, and learner and inexperienced drivers and riders. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-users-requiring-extra-care-204-to-225
- A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
- (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
- (derogatory) An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
- (law, dated) In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim.
- 2012, R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council, EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html
- As to evidence of user...
- As to quality of user (i.e. was use by the public "as of right"), the inspector found that the grass over the whole of the application land has been regularly cut...
- ...which the inspector did not find sufficient of itself to render user permissive. Moreover, the defendant could not, the inspector advised, rely on communication to users that access to the land was regulated. Deferment to users of the organised pitches...
Usage notes
In modern law, the legal sense is widely disfavored in order to guard against ambiguity.
Synonyms
- (one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits): parasite
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
one who uses something, a consumer
- Albanian: përdorues (sq) m
- Arabic: مُسْتَعْمِل (ar) m (mustaʕmil), مُسْتَخْدِم m (mustaḵdim)
- Armenian: օգտվող (ōgtvoġ)
- Asturian: usuariu m
- Bashkir: ҡулланыусы (qullanıwsı)
- Basque: erabiltzaile
- Belarusian: карыста́льнік m (karystálʹnik), карыста́льніца f (karystálʹnica)
- Belarusian: карыста́льнік m (karystálʹnik), карыста́льніца f (karystálʹnica)
- Bulgarian: потреби́тел (bg) m (potrebítel), потреби́телка f (potrebítelka)
- Catalan: usuari (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 使用者 (zh) (shǐyòngzhě), 用戶/用户 (zh) (yònghù)
- Czech: spotřebitel (cs) m, uživatel (cs) m, spotřebitelka (cs) f, uživatelka (cs) f
- Danish: bruger (da) c, konsument c
- Dutch: gebruiker (nl) m, gebruikster (nl) f
- Esperanto: uzanto (eo)
- Estonian: tarbija
- Finnish: käyttäjä (fi), kuluttaja (fi)
- French: consommateur (fr), utilisateur (fr)
- Galician: usuario m
- Georgian: მომხმარებელი (ka) (momxmarebeli)
- German: Benutzer (de) m, Verbraucher (de) m
- Greek: χρήστης (el) m (chrístis), χρήστρια (el) f (chrístria)
- Hungarian: felhasználó (hu), használó (hu)
- Icelandic: notandi (is) m
- Ido: uzanto (io), uzero (io)
- Indonesian: konsumen (id)
- Interlingua: usator
- Italian: utente (it) m or f
- Japanese: 消費者 (ja) (しょうひしゃ, shōhisha), 利用者 (ja) (りようしゃ, riyōsha), 使用者 (ja) (しようしゃ, shiyōsha), ユーザー (ja) (yūzā), ユーザ (ja) (yūza)
- Korean: 사용자(使用者) (ko) (sayongja), 이용자(利用者) (ko) (iyongja), 리용자(利用者) (riyongja) (North Korea)
- Latin: utilitor m or f
- Latvian: lietotājs (lv) m, lietētāja f, jūzeris m
- Lithuanian: naudotojas m, naudotoja f
- Macedonian: корисник m (korisnik), корисничка m (korisnička), потрошувач m (potrošuvač), потрошувачка m (potrošuvačka)
- Malay: pengguna (ms), pengamal
- Malayalam: ഉപഭോക്താവ് (ml) (upabhōktāvŭ)
- Maori: kaiwhakamahi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bruker (no) m
- Nynorsk: brukar m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کارْبَر (fa) (kârbar)
- Polish: użytkownik (pl) m, użytkowniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: consumidor (pt) m, usuário (pt) m (Brazil), utilizador (pt) m (Portugal)
- Punjabi: وَرتَݨ m (vartaṇ), ਵਰਤਣ m (vartaṇ)
- Romanian: utilizator (ro) m, consumator (ro) m
- Romansch: utilisader
- Russian: потреби́тель (ru) m (potrebítelʹ), потреби́тельница (ru) f (potrebítelʹnica), клие́нт (ru) m (klijént)
- Scots: uiser
- Scottish Gaelic: cleachdaiche m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀риснӣк m, ко̀рисница f
- Roman: kòrisnīk (sh) m, kòrisnica (sh) f
- Slovak: spotrebiteľ m, užívateľ m, spotrebiteľka f, užívateľka f
- Slovene: uporabnik (sl) m, uporabnica f
- Spanish: usuario (es) m
- Swahili: mtumiaji (sw)
- Swedish: användare (sv) c, brukare (sv) c
- Tigrinya: ተጠቃሚ m (täṭäḳami), ተጠቃሚት f (täṭäḳamit)
- Turkish: tüketici (tr), kullanıcı (tr)
- Tuvan: ажыглакчы (ajıglakçı)
- Ukrainian: спожива́ч m (spožyváč), спожива́чка f (spožyváčka)
- Urdu: صارِف m (sārif)
- Volapük: (♂♀) geban (vo), (♂) higeban, (♀) jigeban
- Zazaki: xerckar, karber (diq)
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one who uses drugs
- Belarusian: наркама́н m (narkamán), наркама́нка f (narkamánka)
- Bulgarian: потреби́тел (bg) m (potrebítel)
- Danish: misbruger c
- Dutch: druggebruiker (nl) m
- Estonian: väärtarbija
- Finnish: väärinkäyttäjä, käyttäjä (fi)
- German: Drogenkonsument (de) m
- Greek: χρήστης ναρκωτικών m (chrístis narkotikón), χρήστρια ναρκωτικών f (chrístria narkotikón)
- Hungarian: drogfogyasztó (hu)
- Icelandic: eiturlyfjanotandi m, dópisti (is) m
- Latvian: narkomāns m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: مُعْتاد (fa) (mo'tâd)
- Portuguese: usuário (pt) m (Brazil), toxicodependente (pt) m (Portugal), drogado (pt) f (popular)
- Romanian: narcoman (ro) m, toxicoman (ro) m
- Russian: наркома́н (ru) m (narkomán), наркома́нка (ru) f (narkománka)
- Swahili: mlanguzi (sw)
- Swedish: brukare (sv) c, missbrukare (sv) c (addictive use)
- Ukrainian: наркома́н (uk) m (narkomán), наркома́нка f (narkománka)
- Zazaki: kar kerdox
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person who uses a computer
- Afrikaans: gebruiker (af)
- Albanian: përdorues (sq) m
- Amharic: አባል (ʾäbal)
- Arabic: مُسْتَخْدِم m (mustaḵdim), مُسْتَخْدِمَة f (mustaḵdima)
- Egyptian Arabic: يوزر m (yūzar)
- Armenian: օգտվող (ōgtvoġ), օգտատեր (hy) (ōgtater)
- Assamese: সদস্য (xodoisso), ব্যৱহাৰকাৰী (byowoharkari), ইউজাৰ (iuzar)
- Asturian: usuariu m
- Azerbaijani: işlədici (az)
- Bashkir: ҡулланыусы (qullanıwsı)
- Basque: erabiltzaile
- Belarusian: карыста́льнік m (karystálʹnik), карыста́льніца f (karystálʹnica)
- Bengali: ব্যবহারকারী (bn) (bêboharkari)
- Bulgarian: потреби́тел (bg) m (potrebítel), потреби́телка f (potrebítelka)
- Burmese: သုံးစွဲသူ (sum:cwai:su), အသုံးပြုသူ (a.sum:pru.su)
- Catalan: usuari (ca) m, usuària (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 用戶/用户 (jung6 wu6)
- Eastern Min: 用戶/用户 (ê̤ṳng-hô)
- Hakka: 用戶/用户 (yung-fu)
- Hokkien: 用戶/用户 (zh-min-nan) (ēng-hǒ͘ / iōng-hō͘ / ēng-hō͘)
- Mandarin: 用戶/用户 (zh) (yònghù)
- Crimean Tatar: qullanıcı
- Czech: uživatel (cs) m, uživatelka (cs) f
- Danish: bruger (da) c
- Dutch: gebruiker (nl) m, gebruikster (nl) f
- Esperanto: uzanto (eo)
- Estonian: kasutaja (et)
- Finnish: käyttäjä (fi)
- French: utilisateur (fr) m, utilisatrice (fr) f
- Galician: usuario
- Georgian: მომხმარებელი (ka) (momxmarebeli)
- German: Benutzer (de) m, Benutzerin (de) f, Anwender (de) m, Anwenderin (de) f
- Greek: χρήστης (el) m (chrístis), χρήστρια (el) f (chrístria)
- Gujarati: સભ્ય (sabhya)
- Hebrew: מִשְׁתַּמֵּשׁ (he) m (mishtamésh)
- Hindi: सदस्य (hi) m (sadasya)
- Hungarian: felhasználó (hu)
- Icelandic: tölvunotandi m, notandi (is) m
- Ido: uzanto (io)
- Indonesian: pengguna (id)
- Interlingua: usator
- Italian: utente (it) m or f
- Japanese: 利用者 (ja) (りようしゃ, riyōsha), ユーザー (ja) (yūzā), ユーザ (ja) (yūza)
- Kalmyk: олзлач (olzlaç)
- Kannada: ಸದಸ್ಯ (kn) (sadasya)
- Karakalpak: paydalanıwshı
- Kazakh: қатысушы (qatysuşy), пайдаланушы (kk) (paidalanuşy)
- Khmer: អ្នកប្រើប្រាស់ (nĕək praə prah)
- Korean: 사용자(使用者) (ko) (sayongja), 이용자(利用者) (ko) (iyongja), 리용자(利用者) (riyongja) (North Korea)
- Kyrgyz: пайдаланушы (paydalanuşı)
- Lao: ຜູ້ໃຊ້ (phū sai)
- Latin: usor m
- Latvian: lietotājs (lv) m, lietētāja f, jūzeris m
- Lithuanian: naudotojas m, naudotoja f
- Luxembourgish: Benotzer m
- Macedonian: корисник m (korisnik), корисничка f (korisnička)
- Malay: pengguna (ms)
- Malayalam: ഉപയോക്താവ് (ml) (upayōktāvŭ)
- Maltese: utent m
- Maori: kaiwhakamahi
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хэрэглэгч (mn) (xereglegč)
- Navajo: choyoołʼįįhí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bruker (no) m
- Nynorsk: brukar m
- Odia: ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ (byôbôharôkari)
- Pashto: کارن (ps), کاروونکی m (kārawúnkay)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کارْبَر (fa) (kârbar)
- Polish: użytkownik (pl) m, użytkowniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: utilizador (pt) m (Portugal), utilizadora (pt) f (Portugal), usuário (pt) m (Brazil), usuária f (Brazil)
- Punjabi: ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ (vartoṅkār)
- Romanian: utilizator (ro) m, utilizatoare f
- Russian: по́льзователь (ru) m (pólʹzovatelʹ), по́льзовательница (ru) f (pólʹzovatelʹnica), ю́зер (ru) m (júzer), уча́стник (ru) m (učástnik)
- Sanskrit: सदस्य (sa) m (sadasya)
- Scots: uiser
- Scottish Gaelic: cleachdaiche m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀риснӣк m, ко̀рисница f
- Roman: kòrisnīk (sh) m, kòrisnica (sh) f
- Sinhalese: පරිශීලක (si) (pariśīlaka)
- Slovak: užívateľ m, užívateľka f
- Slovene: uporabnik (sl) m, uporabnica f
- Spanish: usuario (es) m, usuaria f
- Swahili: mtumiaji (sw)
- Swedish: användare (sv) c
- Tajik: корбар (tg) (korbar)
- Tamil: பயனர் (ta) (payaṉar)
- Tatar: кулланучы (qullanuçı)
- Telugu: వాడుకరి (te) (vāḍukari)
- Thai: ผู้ใช้ (pûu-chái)
- Tigrinya: ተጠቃሚ m (täṭäḳami), ተጠቃሚት f (täṭäḳamit)
- Turkish: kullanıcı (tr)
- Turkmen: ulanyjy
- Tuvan: ажыглакчы (ajıglakçı)
- Ukrainian: користува́ч (uk) m (korystuváč), користува́чка f (korystuváčka)
- Urdu: صارِف m (sārif)
- Uyghur: ئىشلەتكۈچى (ishletküchi)
- Uzbek: foydalanuvchi
- Vietnamese: thành viên (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) geban (vo), (♂) higeban, (♀) jigeban
- Welsh: defnyddiwr (cy) m, defnyddwraig f
- West Frisian: brûker
- Yiddish: באַניצער m (banitser)
- Zazaki: karwan (diq)
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Translations to be checked
Anagrams
Blagar
Adjective
user
- fast
References
Czech
Verb
user
- (vulgar) second-person singular imperative of usrat
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French user, from Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.
Pronunciation
Verb
user
- to wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, grind down, run in
Trois kilomètres à pied, ça use les souliers.- Three kilometers on foot wears out the shoes.
- to use (used with de)
Ne m’obligez pas à user de la force.- Don't make me use force.
Conjugation
infinitive
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simple
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user
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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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usant /y.zɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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usé /y.ze/
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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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use /yz/
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uses /yz/
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use /yz/
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usons /y.zɔ̃/
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usez /y.ze/
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usent /yz/
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imperfect
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usais /y.zɛ/
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usais /y.zɛ/
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usait /y.zɛ/
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usions /y.zjɔ̃/
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usiez /y.zje/
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usaient /y.zɛ/
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past historic2
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usai /y.ze/
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usas /y.za/
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usa /y.za/
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usâmes /y.zam/
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usâtes /y.zat/
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usèrent /y.zɛʁ/
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future
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userai /yz.ʁe/
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useras /yz.ʁa/
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usera /yz.ʁa/
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userons /yz.ʁɔ̃/
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userez /yz.ʁe/
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useront /yz.ʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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userais /yz.ʁɛ/
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userais /yz.ʁɛ/
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userait /yz.ʁɛ/
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userions /y.zə.ʁjɔ̃/
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useriez /y.zə.ʁje/
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useraient /yz.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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use /yz/
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uses /yz/
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use /yz/
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usions /y.zjɔ̃/
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usiez /y.zje/
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usent /yz/
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imperfect2
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usasse /y.zas/
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usasses /y.zas/
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usât /y.za/
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usassions /y.za.sjɔ̃/
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usassiez /y.za.sje/
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usassent /y.zas/
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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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use /yz/
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—
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usons /y.zɔ̃/
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usez /y.ze/
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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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Derived terms
Descendants
References
Anagrams
Gallo
Etymology
From Old French user, from Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.
Verb
user
- (transitive, cooking) to boil down
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
user
- Alternative form of usere
Etymology 2
Noun
user
- Alternative form of usure
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Old Frisian ūse(r) (“our”), Old Saxon ūser (“our”), Old High German unsēr, unsār (“our”), Old Norse órr, várr (“our”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 (unsar, “our”). Related to Old English ūs (“us”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ūser (possessive)
- (Northumbrian or poetic) Alternative form of ūre
Usage notes
In poetry, only the nominative singular and accusative singular neuter ūser, and the accusative singular masculine ūserne are found. In other cases, forms of ūre or usser are used
Old French
Etymology
From Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.
Verb
user
- to use; to employ; to make use of
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
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simple
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compound
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infinitive
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user
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avoir usé
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gerund
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en usant
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gerund of avoir + past participle
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present participle
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usant
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past participle
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usé
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person
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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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jo
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tu
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il
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nos
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vos
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il
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simple tenses
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present
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us
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uses
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use
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usons
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usez
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usent
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imperfect
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usoie, useie, usoe, useve
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usoies, useies, usoes, useves
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usoit, useit, usot, useve
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usiiens, usiens
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usiiez, usiez
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usoient, useient, usoent, usevent
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preterite
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usai
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usas
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usa
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usames
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usastes
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userent
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future
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userai
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useras
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usera
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userons
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useroiz, usereiz, userez
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useront
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conditional
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useroie, usereie
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useroies, usereies
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useroit, usereit
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useriiens, useriens
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useriiez, useriez
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useroient, usereient
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compound tenses
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present perfect
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present tense of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
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past anterior
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preterite tense of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future tense of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional tense of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que jo
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que tu
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qu’il
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que nos
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que vos
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qu’il
|
simple tenses
|
present
|
us
|
us
|
ust
|
usons
|
usez
|
usent
|
imperfect
|
usasse
|
usasses
|
usast
|
usissons, usissiens
|
usissoiz, usissez, usissiez
|
usassent
|
compound tenses
|
past
|
present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
|
pluperfect
|
imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
|
imperative
|
–
|
tu
|
–
|
nos
|
vos
|
–
|
—
|
use
|
—
|
usons
|
usez
|
—
|
Descendants