veiner

English

Etymology

From vein +‎ -er.

Noun

veiner (plural veiners)

1. A tool for cutting small decorative furrows in the surface of a piece of wood.
2. A pastry mould used to create an impression in the shape of a veined leaf.

Anagrams

• -verine, Nièvre, Vernie, envier, venire, verine

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

veiner

1. to vein (streak with marks similar to veins)

Conjugation

Conjugation of veiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	veiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	veinant /vɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ve.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		veiné /vɛ.ne/ or /ve.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	veine /vɛn/	veines /vɛn/	veine /vɛn/	veinons /vɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ve.nɔ̃/	veinez /vɛ.ne/ or /ve.ne/	veinent /vɛn/
	imperfect	veinais /vɛ.nɛ/ or /ve.nɛ/	veinais /vɛ.nɛ/ or /ve.nɛ/	veinait /vɛ.nɛ/ or /ve.nɛ/	veinions /vɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ve.njɔ̃/	veiniez /vɛ.nje/ or /ve.nje/	veinaient /vɛ.nɛ/ or /ve.nɛ/
	past historic2	veinai /vɛ.ne/ or /ve.ne/	veinas /vɛ.na/ or /ve.na/	veina /vɛ.na/ or /ve.na/	veinâmes /vɛ.nam/ or /ve.nam/	veinâtes /vɛ.nat/ or /ve.nat/	veinèrent /vɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ve.nɛʁ/
	future	veinerai /vɛn.ʁe/	veineras /vɛn.ʁa/	veinera /vɛn.ʁa/	veinerons /vɛn.ʁɔ̃/	veinerez /vɛn.ʁe/	veineront /vɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	veinerais /vɛn.ʁɛ/	veinerais /vɛn.ʁɛ/	veinerait /vɛn.ʁɛ/	veinerions /vɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ve.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	veineriez /vɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ve.nə.ʁje/	veineraient /vɛn.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	veine /vɛn/	veines /vɛn/	veine /vɛn/	veinions /vɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ve.njɔ̃/	veiniez /vɛ.nje/ or /ve.nje/	veinent /vɛn/
	imperfect2	veinasse /vɛ.nas/ or /ve.nas/	veinasses /vɛ.nas/ or /ve.nas/	veinât /vɛ.na/ or /ve.na/	veinassions /vɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ve.na.sjɔ̃/	veinassiez /vɛ.na.sje/ or /ve.na.sje/	veinassent /vɛ.nas/ or /ve.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	veine /vɛn/	—	veinons /vɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ve.nɔ̃/	veinez /vɛ.ne/ or /ve.ne/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “veiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.