raviner

French

Etymology

From ravine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.vi.ne/

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Verb

raviner

1. (transitive) to furrow

Conjugation

Conjugation of raviner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raviner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ravinant /ʁa.vi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raviné /ʁa.vi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ravine /ʁa.vin/	ravines /ʁa.vin/	ravine /ʁa.vin/	ravinons /ʁa.vi.nɔ̃/	ravinez /ʁa.vi.ne/	ravinent /ʁa.vin/
	imperfect	ravinais /ʁa.vi.nɛ/	ravinais /ʁa.vi.nɛ/	ravinait /ʁa.vi.nɛ/	ravinions /ʁa.vi.njɔ̃/	raviniez /ʁa.vi.nje/	ravinaient /ʁa.vi.nɛ/
	past historic2	ravinai /ʁa.vi.ne/	ravinas /ʁa.vi.na/	ravina /ʁa.vi.na/	ravinâmes /ʁa.vi.nam/	ravinâtes /ʁa.vi.nat/	ravinèrent /ʁa.vi.nɛʁ/
	future	ravinerai /ʁa.vin.ʁe/	ravineras /ʁa.vin.ʁa/	ravinera /ʁa.vin.ʁa/	ravinerons /ʁa.vin.ʁɔ̃/	ravinerez /ʁa.vin.ʁe/	ravineront /ʁa.vin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ravinerais /ʁa.vin.ʁɛ/	ravinerais /ʁa.vin.ʁɛ/	ravinerait /ʁa.vin.ʁɛ/	ravinerions /ʁa.vi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ravineriez /ʁa.vi.nə.ʁje/	ravineraient /ʁa.vin.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	ravine /ʁa.vin/	ravines /ʁa.vin/	ravine /ʁa.vin/	ravinions /ʁa.vi.njɔ̃/	raviniez /ʁa.vi.nje/	ravinent /ʁa.vin/
	imperfect2	ravinasse /ʁa.vi.nas/	ravinasses /ʁa.vi.nas/	ravinât /ʁa.vi.na/	ravinassions /ʁa.vi.na.sjɔ̃/	ravinassiez /ʁa.vi.na.sje/	ravinassent /ʁa.vi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ravine /ʁa.vin/	—	ravinons /ʁa.vi.nɔ̃/	ravinez /ʁa.vi.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).

Derived terms

• ravinement

Further reading

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

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Noun

raviner m

1. indefinite plural of ravine