dîner
French
Alternative forms
- diner (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”), from dis- + Late Latin iēiūnō, iēiūnāre (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus. Doublet of déjeuner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.ne/
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Verb
dîner
Conjugation
Conjugation of dîner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | dîner | avoir dîné | |||||
| gerund | en dînant | en ayant dîné | |||||
| present participle | dînant /di.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | dîné /di.ne/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dîne /din/ |
dînes /din/ |
dîne /din/ |
dînons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dînez /di.ne/ |
dînent /din/ |
| imperfect | dînais /di.nɛ/ |
dînais /di.nɛ/ |
dînait /di.nɛ/ |
dînions /di.njɔ̃/ |
dîniez /di.nje/ |
dînaient /di.nɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | dînai /di.ne/ |
dînas /di.na/ |
dîna /di.na/ |
dînâmes /di.nam/ |
dînâtes /di.nat/ |
dînèrent /di.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | dînerai /din.ʁe/ |
dîneras /din.ʁa/ |
dînera /din.ʁa/ |
dînerons /din.ʁɔ̃/ |
dînerez /din.ʁe/ |
dîneront /din.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dînerais /din.ʁɛ/ |
dînerais /din.ʁɛ/ |
dînerait /din.ʁɛ/ |
dînerions /di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dîneriez /di.nə.ʁje/ |
dîneraient /din.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dîne /din/ |
dînes /din/ |
dîne /din/ |
dînions /di.njɔ̃/ |
dîniez /di.nje/ |
dînent /din/ |
| imperfect1 | dînasse /di.nas/ |
dînasses /di.nas/ |
dînât /di.na/ |
dînassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/ |
dînassiez /di.na.sje/ |
dînassent /di.nas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | dîne /din/ |
— | dînons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dînez /di.ne/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Noun
dîner m (plural dîners)
Further reading
- “dîner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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