traverser
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]traverser (plural traversers)
- One who, or that which, traverses or moves, such as an index on a scale.
- (law) One who traverses, or denies.
- (rail transport) A traverse table.
- 1961 March, ""Dalmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
- Before I left Paris I had the chance to visit La Chapelle depot. I was fascinated by the place. Basically, the steam depot is divided into two halves, the repair side and the steam side, with a traverser in between.
- 2019 October, “Trackwatch: Wales”, in Modern Railways, page 90:
- The outside sidings and test areas are rail-connected at the western end to the Down Service line, whilst the test area and assembly area are connected via a traverser at the eastern end of the site.
References
[edit]- “traverser”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “traverser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]traverser
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | simple | traverser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | traversant /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | traversé /tʁa.vɛʁ.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | traverse /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
traverses /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
traverse /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
traversons /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɔ̃/ |
traversez /tʁa.vɛʁ.se/ |
traversent /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
imperfect | traversais /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛ/ |
traversais /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛ/ |
traversait /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛ/ |
traversions /tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
traversiez /tʁa.vɛʁ.sje/ |
traversaient /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | traversai /tʁa.vɛʁ.se/ |
traversas /tʁa.vɛʁ.sa/ |
traversa /tʁa.vɛʁ.sa/ |
traversâmes /tʁa.vɛʁ.sam/ |
traversâtes /tʁa.vɛʁ.sat/ |
traversèrent /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
future | traverserai /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
traverseras /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
traversera /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
traverserons /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
traverserez /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
traverseront /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | traverserais /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
traverserais /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
traverserait /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
traverserions /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
traverseriez /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.ʁje/ |
traverseraient /tʁa.vɛʁ.sə.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 | traverse /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
traverses /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
traverse /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
traversions /tʁa.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
traversiez /tʁa.vɛʁ.sje/ |
traversent /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
imperfect2 | traversasse /tʁa.vɛʁ.sas/ |
traversasses /tʁa.vɛʁ.sas/ |
traversât /tʁa.vɛʁ.sa/ |
traversassions /tʁa.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
traversassiez /tʁa.vɛʁ.sa.sje/ |
traversassent /tʁa.vɛʁ.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | traverse /tʁa.vɛʁs/ |
— | traversons /tʁa.vɛʁ.sɔ̃/ |
traversez /tʁa.vɛʁ.se/ |
— | |
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “traverser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Verb
[edit]traverser
Conjugation
[edit]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.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | traverser | avoir traversé | |||||
gerund | en traversant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | traversant | ||||||
past participle | traversé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | travers | traverses | traverse | traversons | traversez | traversent |
imperfect | traversoie, traverseie, traversoe, traverseve | traversoies, traverseies, traversoes, traverseves | traversoit, traverseit, traversot, traverseve | traversiiens, traversiens | traversiiez, traversiez | traversoient, traverseient, traversoent, traversevent | |
preterite | traversai | traversas | traversa | traversames | traversastes | traverserent | |
future | traverserai | traverseras | traversera | traverserons | traverseroiz, traversereiz, traverserez | traverseront | |
conditional | traverseroie, traversereie | traverseroies, traversereies | traverseroit, traversereit | traverseriiens, traverseriens | traverseriiez, traverseriez | traverseroient, traversereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | travers | travers | traverst | traversons | traversez | traversent |
imperfect | traversasse | traversasses | traversast | traversissons, traversissiens | traversissoiz, traversissez, traversissiez | traversassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | traverse | — | traversons | traversez | — |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- English terms suffixed with -er
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Law
- en:Rail transportation
- English terms with quotations
- en:People
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs
- Old French lemmas
- Old French verbs
- Old French verbs with weak-a preterite
- Old French first group verbs
- Old French verbs ending in -er