balancer
English
Etymology
balance + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbæ.lən.səɹ/
Noun
balancer (plural balancers)
- One who, or that which, balances.
- An acrobat.
- Any of the rear wings of certain insects used for stability in flight.
Derived terms
- harmonic balancer
- load balancer
Translations
acrobat
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Anagrams
- barnacle
Catalan
Etymology
balança + -er
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /bə.lənˈse/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ba.lanˈseɾ/
Noun
balancer m (plural balancers, feminine balancera)
- scale-maker
- Person who weighs metals at a minting operation.
Noun
balancer m (plural balancers)
- pendulum
- Synonym: pèndol
Further reading
- “balancer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Late Latin (libra) bilanx "(balance) with two scale pans".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɑ̃.se/
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Verb
balancer
- (reflexive) to swing (“to do a reciprocating movement”)
- (reflexive) to swing (“to ride on a swing”)
- (Quebec) to balance (“make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond”)
- (France, slang) to denounce (“to make a formal or public accusation against”), to rat
- 2017 December 29, Le Monde:
- La journaliste Sandra Muller revient sur le phénomène #balancetonporc qu’elle a lancé.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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- (informal) to toss (“to throw”)
- (informal) to throw away (“to discard”)
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of balancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | balancer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | balançant /ba.lɑ̃.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | balancé /ba.lɑ̃.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | balance /ba.lɑ̃s/ | balances /ba.lɑ̃s/ | balance /ba.lɑ̃s/ | balançons /ba.lɑ̃.sɔ̃/ | balancez /ba.lɑ̃.se/ | balancent /ba.lɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect | balançais /ba.lɑ̃.sɛ/ | balançais /ba.lɑ̃.sɛ/ | balançait /ba.lɑ̃.sɛ/ | balancions /ba.lɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ | balanciez /ba.lɑ̃.sje/ | balançaient /ba.lɑ̃.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | balançai /ba.lɑ̃.se/ | balanças /ba.lɑ̃.sa/ | balança /ba.lɑ̃.sa/ | balançâmes /ba.lɑ̃.sam/ | balançâtes /ba.lɑ̃.sat/ | balancèrent /ba.lɑ̃.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | balancerai /ba.lɑ̃.sʁe/ | balanceras /ba.lɑ̃.sʁa/ | balancera /ba.lɑ̃.sʁa/ | balancerons /ba.lɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ | balancerez /ba.lɑ̃.sʁe/ | balanceront /ba.lɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | balancerais /ba.lɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | balancerais /ba.lɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | balancerait /ba.lɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | balancerions /ba.lɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | balanceriez /ba.lɑ̃.sə.ʁje/ | balanceraient /ba.lɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | balance /ba.lɑ̃s/ | balances /ba.lɑ̃s/ | balance /ba.lɑ̃s/ | balancions /ba.lɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ | balanciez /ba.lɑ̃.sje/ | balancent /ba.lɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect2 | balançasse /ba.lɑ̃.sas/ | balançasses /ba.lɑ̃.sas/ | balançât /ba.lɑ̃.sa/ | balançassions /ba.lɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/ | balançassiez /ba.lɑ̃.sa.sje/ | balançassent /ba.lɑ̃.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | balance /ba.lɑ̃s/ | — | balançons /ba.lɑ̃.sɔ̃/ | balancez /ba.lɑ̃.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
- balancer son porc
- balançoire
Related terms
- balance
Further reading
- “balancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.