drainer
French, verb/dʁɛ.ne/
drainer is spelled D-R-A-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drainer is a French verb meaning “to drain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Débarrasser un terrain de l’excès d’humidité au moyen de drains ou de canaux de drainage”.
What does drainer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drain
- 2
to drain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Débarrasser un terrain de l’excès d’humidité au moyen de drains ou de canaux de drainage. 2. Faire affluer des capitaux dans une banque, dans une caisse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of drainer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- drainant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- drainé participle past
- draine first-person indicative present
- draines indicative present second-person
- drainons first-person indicative plural
- drainez indicative plural present
- drainent indicative plural present
- drainais first-person imperfect indicative
- drainait imperfect indicative singular
- drainions first-person imperfect indicative
- drainiez imperfect indicative plural
- drainaient imperfect indicative plural
- drainai first-person historic indicative
- drainas historic indicative past
- draina historic indicative past
- drainâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce drainer?
- /dʁɛ.ne/
- /dʁe.ne/
- \dʁe.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to drainer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is drainer in French?
drainer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).