cingler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.ɡle/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French cingler, from Old French singler, sigler, from Old Norse sigla (“to sail”), from Proto-Germanic *siglijaną.

Verb

cingler

1. to sail
2. to navigate

Conjugation

Conjugation of cingler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cingler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cinglant /sɛ̃.ɡlɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cinglé /sɛ̃.ɡle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingles /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cinglons /sɛ̃.ɡlɔ̃/	cinglez /sɛ̃.ɡle/	cinglent /sɛ̃ɡl/
	imperfect	cinglais /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/	cinglais /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/	cinglait /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/	cinglions /sɛ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃/	cingliez /sɛ̃.ɡli.je/	cinglaient /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/
	past historic2	cinglai /sɛ̃.ɡle/	cinglas /sɛ̃.ɡla/	cingla /sɛ̃.ɡla/	cinglâmes /sɛ̃.ɡlam/	cinglâtes /sɛ̃.ɡlat/	cinglèrent /sɛ̃.ɡlɛʁ/
	future	cinglerai /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁe/	cingleras /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁa/	cinglera /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁa/	cinglerons /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/	cinglerez /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁe/	cingleront /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cinglerais /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	cinglerais /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	cinglerait /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	cinglerions /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁjɔ̃/	cingleriez /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁje/	cingleraient /sɛ̃.ɡlə.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	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingles /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cinglions /sɛ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃/	cingliez /sɛ̃.ɡli.je/	cinglent /sɛ̃ɡl/
	imperfect2	cinglasse /sɛ̃.ɡlas/	cinglasses /sɛ̃.ɡlas/	cinglât /sɛ̃.ɡla/	cinglassions /sɛ̃.ɡla.sjɔ̃/	cinglassiez /sɛ̃.ɡla.sje/	cinglassent /sɛ̃.ɡlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	—	cinglons /sɛ̃.ɡlɔ̃/	cinglez /sɛ̃.ɡle/	—
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).

Etymology 2

From Latin cingulum.

Verb

cingler

1. to hit; to strike; to knock

Derived terms

• cinglé (adjective)
• cingleur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cligner