dîner
French
Alternative forms
- diner (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”), from dis- + Late Latin 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)
| infinitive | simple | dîner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dînant /di.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dîné /di.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | dîne /din/ |
dînes /din/ |
dîne /din/ |
dînions /di.njɔ̃/ |
dîniez /di.nje/ |
dînent /din/ |
| imperfect2 | dînasse /di.nas/ |
dînasses /di.nas/ |
dînât /di.na/ |
dînassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/ |
dînassiez /di.na.sje/ |
dînassent /di.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dîne /din/ |
— | dînons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dînez /di.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Noun
dîner m (plural dîners)
- dinner, evening meal
- (Belgium, North America, Switzerland, Congo, Rwanda) lunch, midday meal
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dîner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.