carrer

See also: cârrer

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin (cammīnus) carrārius (compare Occitan carrièra), from Latin carrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈre]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈreɾ]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Noun

carrer m (plural carrers)

1. street
2. road
3. (sports) lane, fairway

Derived terms

• carrerany
• carreró

Related terms

• carrera

Further reading

• “carrer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carrer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “carrer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carrer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French carrer, from Latin quadrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

carrer

1. to square (a number)

Conjugation

Conjugation of carrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	carrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	carrant /ka.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		carré /ka.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	carre /kaʁ/	carres /kaʁ/	carre /kaʁ/	carrons /ka.ʁɔ̃/	carrez /ka.ʁe/	carrent /kaʁ/
	imperfect	carrais /ka.ʁɛ/	carrais /ka.ʁɛ/	carrait /ka.ʁɛ/	carrions /ka.ʁjɔ̃/	carriez /ka.ʁje/	carraient /ka.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	carrai /ka.ʁe/	carras /ka.ʁa/	carra /ka.ʁa/	carrâmes /ka.ʁam/	carrâtes /ka.ʁat/	carrèrent /ka.ʁɛʁ/
	future	carrerai /ka.ʁə.ʁe/	carreras /ka.ʁə.ʁa/	carrera /ka.ʁə.ʁa/	carrerons /ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	carrerez /ka.ʁə.ʁe/	carreront /ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	carrerais /ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	carrerais /ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	carrerait /ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	carrerions /ka.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	carreriez /ka.ʁə.ʁje/	carreraient /ka.ʁə.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	carre /kaʁ/	carres /kaʁ/	carre /kaʁ/	carrions /ka.ʁjɔ̃/	carriez /ka.ʁje/	carrent /kaʁ/
	imperfect2	carrasse /ka.ʁas/	carrasses /ka.ʁas/	carrât /ka.ʁa/	carrassions /ka.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	carrassiez /ka.ʁa.sje/	carrassent /ka.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	carre /kaʁ/	—	carrons /ka.ʁɔ̃/	carrez /ka.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• carrable
• carreau
• carré
• carre
• carrière
• équarrir
• équerre

Further reading

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