paver
See also: påver
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪvɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Noun
paver (plural pavers)
- A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
- Synonyms: paver block, paving block, paving stone, flagstone
- red brick pavers
- One who paves; one who lays pavement.
- (road transport, construction) A road paving machine, a machine to lay asphalt on roads.
- Synonyms: paver finisher, asphalt finisher
Translations
stone used for paving
one who paves
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road paving machine
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Anagrams
Danish
Noun
paver c
- indefinite plural of pave
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ve/
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Verb
paver
- to cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something similar
- (Canada, Quebec) to pave in any sense (including with asphalt, etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of paver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | paver | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pavant /pa.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pavé /pa.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pave /pav/ |
paves /pav/ |
pave /pav/ |
pavons /pa.vɔ̃/ |
pavez /pa.ve/ |
pavent /pav/ |
| imperfect | pavais /pa.vɛ/ |
pavais /pa.vɛ/ |
pavait /pa.vɛ/ |
pavions /pa.vjɔ̃/ |
paviez /pa.vje/ |
pavaient /pa.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pavai /pa.ve/ |
pavas /pa.va/ |
pava /pa.va/ |
pavâmes /pa.vam/ |
pavâtes /pa.vat/ |
pavèrent /pa.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | paverai /pa.vʁe/ |
paveras /pa.vʁa/ |
pavera /pa.vʁa/ |
paverons /pa.vʁɔ̃/ |
paverez /pa.vʁe/ |
paveront /pa.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | paverais /pa.vʁɛ/ |
paverais /pa.vʁɛ/ |
paverait /pa.vʁɛ/ |
paverions /pa.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
paveriez /pa.və.ʁje/ |
paveraient /pa.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | pave /pav/ |
paves /pav/ |
pave /pav/ |
pavions /pa.vjɔ̃/ |
paviez /pa.vje/ |
pavent /pav/ |
| imperfect2 | pavasse /pa.vas/ |
pavasses /pa.vas/ |
pavât /pa.va/ |
pavassions /pa.va.sjɔ̃/ |
pavassiez /pa.va.sje/ |
pavassent /pa.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pave /pav/ |
— | pavons /pa.vɔ̃/ |
pavez /pa.ve/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “paver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
paver m
- indefinite plural of pave