biller

See also: Biller

English

Etymology

bill +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

biller (plural billers)

1. (business) An issuer of a bill.
2. One who bills (caresses in fondness), in the context of billing and cooing.
   • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:

     " […] O, O, O," continued the horrible old creature, "you billers and cooers, I have been listening to such flatteries, such confessions! Beware, beware, Arthur, there's many a slip."

Translations

issuer of a bill

• Finnish: laskuttaja

Anagrams

• brille, rebill

Danish

Noun

biller c

1. indefinite plural of bille

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.je/

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Verb

biller

1. to turn a piece of wood placed on a support
2. to flatten dough with a rolling pin
3. to place balls of solder on a component in preparation for welding to a printed circuit board

Conjugation

Conjugation of biller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	biller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	billant /bi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		billé /bi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bille /bij/	billes /bij/	bille /bij/	billons /bi.jɔ̃/	billez /bi.je/	billent /bij/
	imperfect	billais /bi.jɛ/	billais /bi.jɛ/	billait /bi.jɛ/	billions /bij.jɔ̃/	billiez /bij.je/	billaient /bi.jɛ/
	past historic2	billai /bi.je/	billas /bi.ja/	billa /bi.ja/	billâmes /bi.jam/	billâtes /bi.jat/	billèrent /bi.jɛʁ/
	future	billerai /bij.ʁe/	billeras /bij.ʁa/	billera /bij.ʁa/	billerons /bij.ʁɔ̃/	billerez /bij.ʁe/	billeront /bij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	billerais /bij.ʁɛ/	billerais /bij.ʁɛ/	billerait /bij.ʁɛ/	billerions /bi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	billeriez /bi.jə.ʁje/	billeraient /bij.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	bille /bij/	billes /bij/	bille /bij/	billions /bij.jɔ̃/	billiez /bij.je/	billent /bij/
	imperfect2	billasse /bi.jas/	billasses /bi.jas/	billât /bi.ja/	billassions /bi.ja.sjɔ̃/	billassiez /bi.ja.sje/	billassent /bi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bille /bij/	—	billons /bi.jɔ̃/	billez /bi.je/	—
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).

Related terms

• bille

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

biller m

1. indefinite plural of bille

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

biller f

1. indefinite plural of bille