aligner
English
Etymology
From align + -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlaɪnɚ/
- Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
aligner (plural aligners)
- One who, or that which, aligns.
Translations
one who, or that which, aligns
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Anagrams
- Relangi, engrail, inlarge, learing, nargile, realign, reginal
French
Etymology
From Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from a- + lignier, from Latin lineāre (from linea (“line”)). Equivalent to a- + ligne + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.li.ɲe/
audio (file) - Homophones: alignai, aligné, alignée, alignées, alignés, alignez, aligniez
Verb
aligner
- to align
Conjugation
Conjugation of aligner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aligner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | alignant /a.li.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | aligné /a.li.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | aligne /a.liɲ/ | alignes /a.liɲ/ | aligne /a.liɲ/ | alignons /a.li.ɲɔ̃/ | alignez /a.li.ɲe/ | alignent /a.liɲ/ |
| imperfect | alignais /a.li.ɲɛ/ | alignais /a.li.ɲɛ/ | alignait /a.li.ɲɛ/ | alignions /a.li.ɲjɔ̃/ | aligniez /a.li.ɲje/ | alignaient /a.li.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | alignai /a.li.ɲe/ | alignas /a.li.ɲa/ | aligna /a.li.ɲa/ | alignâmes /a.li.ɲam/ | alignâtes /a.li.ɲat/ | alignèrent /a.li.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | alignerai /a.li.ɲə.ʁe/ | aligneras /a.li.ɲə.ʁa/ | alignera /a.li.ɲə.ʁa/ | alignerons /a.li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | alignerez /a.li.ɲə.ʁe/ | aligneront /a.li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | alignerais /a.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | alignerais /a.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | alignerait /a.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | alignerions /a.li.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ | aligneriez /a.li.ɲə.ʁje/ | aligneraient /a.li.ɲə.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 | aligne /a.liɲ/ | alignes /a.liɲ/ | aligne /a.liɲ/ | alignions /a.li.ɲjɔ̃/ | aligniez /a.li.ɲje/ | alignent /a.liɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | alignasse /a.li.ɲas/ | alignasses /a.li.ɲas/ | alignât /a.li.ɲa/ | alignassions /a.li.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ | alignassiez /a.li.ɲa.sje/ | alignassent /a.li.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | aligne /a.liɲ/ | — | alignons /a.li.ɲɔ̃/ | alignez /a.li.ɲe/ | — | |
| 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
- alignement
- patinage à roues alignées
- patin à roues alignées
Further reading
- “aligner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- lignera