caser

See also: càser

English

Etymology

Possibly from Yiddish כּתר (keser, “crown”), from Hebrew כֶּתֶר (keter)

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

caser (plural casers)

1. (slang, UK) A crown, a five-shilling coin.

Derived terms

• case
• case quarter

Anagrams

• cares, sacre, acers, ceras, scare, serac, Ceras, Creas, Cesar, sérac, Carse, Races, CERAs, Crase, e-cars, caers, carse, races, SERCA, acres, Cares, scear, crase

French

Etymology

From case ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ze/ ~ /kɑ.ze/

Verb

caser

1. to fit, to put in a box
2. (pronominal, colloquial) to settle down

Conjugation

Conjugation of caser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caser
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	casant /ka.zɑ̃/ or /kɑ.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		casé /ka.ze/ or /kɑ.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	case /kaz/ or /kɑz/	cases /kaz/ or /kɑz/	case /kaz/ or /kɑz/	casons /ka.zɔ̃/ or /kɑ.zɔ̃/	casez /ka.ze/ or /kɑ.ze/	casent /kaz/ or /kɑz/
	imperfect	casais /ka.zɛ/ or /kɑ.zɛ/	casais /ka.zɛ/ or /kɑ.zɛ/	casait /ka.zɛ/ or /kɑ.zɛ/	casions /ka.zjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.zjɔ̃/	casiez /ka.zje/ or /kɑ.zje/	casaient /ka.zɛ/ or /kɑ.zɛ/
	past historic2	casai /ka.ze/ or /kɑ.ze/	casas /ka.za/ or /kɑ.za/	casa /ka.za/ or /kɑ.za/	casâmes /ka.zam/ or /kɑ.zam/	casâtes /ka.zat/ or /kɑ.zat/	casèrent /ka.zɛʁ/ or /kɑ.zɛʁ/
	future	caserai /kaz.ʁe/ or /kɑz.ʁe/	caseras /kaz.ʁa/ or /kɑz.ʁa/	casera /kaz.ʁa/ or /kɑz.ʁa/	caserons /kaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑz.ʁɔ̃/	caserez /kaz.ʁe/ or /kɑz.ʁe/	caseront /kaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caserais /kaz.ʁɛ/ or /kɑz.ʁɛ/	caserais /kaz.ʁɛ/ or /kɑz.ʁɛ/	caserait /kaz.ʁɛ/ or /kɑz.ʁɛ/	caserions /ka.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	caseriez /ka.zə.ʁje/ or /kɑ.zə.ʁje/	caseraient /kaz.ʁɛ/ or /kɑz.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	case /kaz/ or /kɑz/	cases /kaz/ or /kɑz/	case /kaz/ or /kɑz/	casions /ka.zjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.zjɔ̃/	casiez /ka.zje/ or /kɑ.zje/	casent /kaz/ or /kɑz/
	imperfect2	casasse /ka.zas/ or /kɑ.zas/	casasses /ka.zas/ or /kɑ.zas/	casât /ka.za/ or /kɑ.za/	casassions /ka.za.sjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.za.sjɔ̃/	casassiez /ka.za.sje/ or /kɑ.za.sje/	casassent /ka.zas/ or /kɑ.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	case /kaz/ or /kɑz/	—	casons /ka.zɔ̃/ or /kɑ.zɔ̃/	casez /ka.ze/ or /kɑ.ze/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• âcres, César, crase, créas, races, sacre, sacré, scare

Middle English

Noun

caser

1. (Early Scots) Alternative form of casere

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kɛɪ̯.sər/, /²kæɪ̯.sər/
• Homophone: keiser

Noun

caser m or n

1. indefinite plural of case

Anagrams

• acres

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Latin Caesar. The original, older spelling of cāsere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.ser/, [ˈkɑː.zer]

Noun

cāser m

1. Alternative form of cāsere

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	cāser	cāseras
accusative	cāser	cāseras
genitive	cāseres	cāsera
dative	cāsere	cāserum