lambiner
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lambiner
- (intransitive) to dawdle
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of lambiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | lambiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | lambinant /lɑ̃.bi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | lambiné /lɑ̃.bi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | lambine /lɑ̃.bin/ |
lambines /lɑ̃.bin/ |
lambine /lɑ̃.bin/ |
lambinons /lɑ̃.bi.nɔ̃/ |
lambinez /lɑ̃.bi.ne/ |
lambinent /lɑ̃.bin/ |
| imperfect | lambinais /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/ |
lambinais /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/ |
lambinait /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/ |
lambinions /lɑ̃.bi.njɔ̃/ |
lambiniez /lɑ̃.bi.nje/ |
lambinaient /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lambinai /lɑ̃.bi.ne/ |
lambinas /lɑ̃.bi.na/ |
lambina /lɑ̃.bi.na/ |
lambinâmes /lɑ̃.bi.nam/ |
lambinâtes /lɑ̃.bi.nat/ |
lambinèrent /lɑ̃.bi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | lambinerai /lɑ̃.bin.ʁe/ |
lambineras /lɑ̃.bin.ʁa/ |
lambinera /lɑ̃.bin.ʁa/ |
lambinerons /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɔ̃/ |
lambinerez /lɑ̃.bin.ʁe/ |
lambineront /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | lambinerais /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɛ/ |
lambinerais /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɛ/ |
lambinerait /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɛ/ |
lambinerions /lɑ̃.bi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lambineriez /lɑ̃.bi.nə.ʁje/ |
lambineraient /lɑ̃.bin.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 | lambine /lɑ̃.bin/ |
lambines /lɑ̃.bin/ |
lambine /lɑ̃.bin/ |
lambinions /lɑ̃.bi.njɔ̃/ |
lambiniez /lɑ̃.bi.nje/ |
lambinent /lɑ̃.bin/ |
| imperfect2 | lambinasse /lɑ̃.bi.nas/ |
lambinasses /lɑ̃.bi.nas/ |
lambinât /lɑ̃.bi.na/ |
lambinassions /lɑ̃.bi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
lambinassiez /lɑ̃.bi.na.sje/ |
lambinassent /lɑ̃.bi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | lambine /lɑ̃.bin/ |
— | lambinons /lɑ̃.bi.nɔ̃/ |
lambinez /lɑ̃.bi.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “lambiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.