cendrer

Catalan

Etymology

From cendra +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sənˈdɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [senˈdɾeɾ]

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Noun

cendrer m (plural cendrers)

1. ashtray

Further reading

• “cendrer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

French

Etymology

From cendre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.dʁe/

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• Homophones: cendrai, cendrez, cendré

Verb

cendrer

1. (dated, painting) to give the color of ash
2. (dated, art) to mix or cover with ashes

Conjugation

Conjugation of cendrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cendrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cendrant /sɑ̃.dʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cendré /sɑ̃.dʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cendre /sɑ̃dʁ/	cendres /sɑ̃dʁ/	cendre /sɑ̃dʁ/	cendrons /sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	cendrez /sɑ̃.dʁe/	cendrent /sɑ̃dʁ/
	imperfect	cendrais /sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	cendrais /sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	cendrait /sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	cendrions /sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	cendriez /sɑ̃.dʁi.je/	cendraient /sɑ̃.dʁɛ/
	past historic2	cendrai /sɑ̃.dʁe/	cendras /sɑ̃.dʁa/	cendra /sɑ̃.dʁa/	cendrâmes /sɑ̃.dʁam/	cendrâtes /sɑ̃.dʁat/	cendrèrent /sɑ̃.dʁɛʁ/
	future	cendrerai /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁe/	cendreras /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁa/	cendrera /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁa/	cendrerons /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cendrerez /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁe/	cendreront /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cendrerais /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cendrerais /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cendrerait /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cendrerions /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cendreriez /sɑ̃.dʁə.ʁje/	cendreraient /sɑ̃.dʁə.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	cendre /sɑ̃dʁ/	cendres /sɑ̃dʁ/	cendre /sɑ̃dʁ/	cendrions /sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	cendriez /sɑ̃.dʁi.je/	cendrent /sɑ̃dʁ/
	imperfect2	cendrasse /sɑ̃.dʁas/	cendrasses /sɑ̃.dʁas/	cendrât /sɑ̃.dʁa/	cendrassions /sɑ̃.dʁa.sjɔ̃/	cendrassiez /sɑ̃.dʁa.sje/	cendrassent /sɑ̃.dʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cendre /sɑ̃dʁ/	—	cendrons /sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	cendrez /sɑ̃.dʁe/	—
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

• cendré
• décendrer
• écendrer

Further reading

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