parer
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Etymology
Noun
parer (plural parers)
- A tool used to pare things.
- (Ireland) A pencil sharpener.
- 2013 December 6, Russell W. Belk, Linda Price, Lisa Penaloza, Consumer Culture Theory, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
- A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'.
Anagrams
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pārēre. Displaced as a verb by the doublet parèixer (“to seem”); compare Spanish parecer (“to seem; opinion”). Also compare Friulian parè, Italian parere, Romanian părere.
Pronunciation
Noun
parer m (plural parers)
- view, opinion
- segons el meu parer ― in my opinion
- 2003, Ferran Grau Codina, La Universitat de València i l’humanisme: Studia humanitatis i renovació cultural a Europa i el nou món, Universidad de Valencia, →ISBN, page 431:
- Encara que el Papa Pau III era del mateix parer, tot i això, l'emperador imposà el seu criteri.
- Although Pope Paul III was of the same view, the emperor nevertheless imposed his own opinion.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “parer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “parer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “parer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “parer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin parāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”).
Pronunciation
Verb
parer
- to adorn; to bedeck
- Paré de fleurs. ― Adorned with flowers.
- to fend off
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 7:
- Ce n’est qu’en fuyant qu’on pare de tels coups.
- Only by fleeing may one fend off such blows.
- (fencing) to parry
- (reflexive) to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes)
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | parer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | parant /pa.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | paré /pa.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pare /paʁ/ |
pares /paʁ/ |
pare /paʁ/ |
parons /pa.ʁɔ̃/ |
parez /pa.ʁe/ |
parent /paʁ/ |
| imperfect | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ |
parais /pa.ʁɛ/ |
parait /pa.ʁɛ/ |
parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pariez /pa.ʁje/ |
paraient /pa.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | parai /pa.ʁe/ |
paras /pa.ʁa/ |
para /pa.ʁa/ |
parâmes /pa.ʁam/ |
parâtes /pa.ʁat/ |
parèrent /pa.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | parerai /pa.ʁə.ʁe/ |
pareras /pa.ʁə.ʁa/ |
parera /pa.ʁə.ʁa/ |
parerons /pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
parerez /pa.ʁə.ʁe/ |
pareront /pa.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | parerais /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
parerais /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
parerait /pa.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
parerions /pa.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pareriez /pa.ʁə.ʁje/ |
pareraient /pa.ʁə.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 | pare /paʁ/ |
pares /paʁ/ |
pare /paʁ/ |
parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pariez /pa.ʁje/ |
parent /paʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | parasse /pa.ʁas/ |
parasses /pa.ʁas/ |
parât /pa.ʁa/ |
parassions /pa.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
parassiez /pa.ʁa.sje/ |
parassent /pa.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pare /paʁ/ |
— | parons /pa.ʁɔ̃/ |
parez /pa.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Conjugation of parer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
- déparer
- pare-balles
- pare-boue
- pare-brise
- pare-chocs
- pare-feu
- pare-soleil
- parer à
- parer au plus pressé
Related terms
Further reading
- “parer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Verb
parer
Conjugation
Conjugation of parer
Derived terms
Verb
parer
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin parēre, present active infinitive of pāreō (“I appear, I am visible, apparent”).
Verb
parer
- (transitive) to seem (look like)
Conjugation
- Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
| infinitive | parer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | paréndo | |||
| past participle | parato | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| present | paro | (te) pari | (el/ła) pare | parémo | parì | (i/łe) pare |
| imperfect | paréa | (te) parivi | (el/ła) paréa | parévimo | parivi | (i/łe) paréa |
| future | pararò | (te) pararè | (el/ła) pararà | pararémo | pararè | (i/łe) pararà |
| conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| present | pararìa | (te) pararisi | (el/ła) pararìa | pararìsimo | pararisi | (i/łe) pararìa |
| subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
| present | para | (te) pari | (el/ła) para | parémo | parì | (i/łe) para |
| imperfect | parése | (te) parisi | (el/ła) parése | parésimo | parisi | (i/łe) parése |
| imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| — | (te) pari | (el/ła) para | parémo | parì | (i/łe) para | |
Conjugation of parer (second conjugation)
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