crooner

English

Etymology

From croon ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːn.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)

Noun

crooner (plural crooners)

1. One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.

   My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.

Translations

one who croons

• Dutch: smartlapzanger m, volkszanger (nl) m
• Faroese: lættisoppasangari m
• French: chanteur de charme m
• German: Schnulzensänger m, Schlagersänger (de) m
• Hungarian: sanzonénekes (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smørsanger (no) m

• Russian: кру́нер (ru) m (krúner)
• Swedish: smörsångare (sv) c

Anagrams

• coroner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.ne/

• Audio:

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Noun

crooner m (plural crooners)

1. crooner

Verb

crooner

1. (music) to croon

Conjugation

Conjugation of crooner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	crooner
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	croonant /kʁu.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		crooné /kʁu.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	croone /kʁun/	croones /kʁun/	croone /kʁun/	croonons /kʁu.nɔ̃/	croonez /kʁu.ne/	croonent /kʁun/
	imperfect	croonais /kʁu.nɛ/	croonais /kʁu.nɛ/	croonait /kʁu.nɛ/	croonions /kʁu.njɔ̃/	crooniez /kʁu.nje/	croonaient /kʁu.nɛ/
	past historic2	croonai /kʁu.ne/	croonas /kʁu.na/	croona /kʁu.na/	croonâmes /kʁu.nam/	croonâtes /kʁu.nat/	croonèrent /kʁu.nɛʁ/
	future	croonerai /kʁun.ʁe/	crooneras /kʁun.ʁa/	croonera /kʁun.ʁa/	croonerons /kʁun.ʁɔ̃/	croonerez /kʁun.ʁe/	crooneront /kʁun.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	croonerais /kʁun.ʁɛ/	croonerais /kʁun.ʁɛ/	croonerait /kʁun.ʁɛ/	croonerions /kʁu.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	crooneriez /kʁu.nə.ʁje/	crooneraient /kʁun.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	croone /kʁun/	croones /kʁun/	croone /kʁun/	croonions /kʁu.njɔ̃/	crooniez /kʁu.nje/	croonent /kʁun/
	imperfect2	croonasse /kʁu.nas/	croonasses /kʁu.nas/	croonât /kʁu.na/	croonassions /kʁu.na.sjɔ̃/	croonassiez /kʁu.na.sje/	croonassent /kʁu.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	croone /kʁun/	—	croonons /kʁu.nɔ̃/	croonez /kʁu.ne/	—
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).

Spanish

Noun

crooner m (plural crooners)

1. crooner