rainer
French, verb/ʁɛ.ne/
rainer is a French verb meaning “to groove (make a groove in)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une rainure dans (quelque chose)”.
What does rainer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to groove (make a groove in)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une rainure dans (quelque chose). 2. Faire une rainure dans une pièce de bois en utilisant un bouvet. 3. Pour faciliter le pliage, faire une rainure sur du papier ou du carton en utilisant une presse spéciale.
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 rainer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rainant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rainé participle past
- raine first-person indicative present
- raines indicative present second-person
- rainons first-person indicative plural
- rainez indicative plural present
- rainent indicative plural present
- rainais first-person imperfect indicative
- rainait imperfect indicative singular
- rainions first-person imperfect indicative
- rainiez imperfect indicative plural
- rainaient imperfect indicative plural
- rainai first-person historic indicative
- rainas historic indicative past
- raina historic indicative past
- rainâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rainer?
- /ʁɛ.ne/
- /ʁe.ne/
- \ʁe.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rainer in French?
rainer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).