lanciner
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lancināre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lanciner
- to inflict a sharp pain
- (figurative) to torment, to trouble
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin:
- Et moi, j’aurai été un écrivain de génie, universellement admiré, j’aurai reçu le prix Nobel de littérature, tout ça pour qu’un blanc-bec vienne me lanciner de questions quasi tautologiques, auxquelles le dernier des imbéciles fournirait une réponse identique à la mienne !
- And I will have become a literary genius, universally admired, I will have been given the Nobel Prize in Literature, all for some greenhorn to come and torment me with almost tautological questions to which any idiot would give exactly the same answer as me!
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of lanciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | lanciner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | lancinant /lɑ̃.si.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | lanciné /lɑ̃.si.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | lancine /lɑ̃.sin/ |
lancines /lɑ̃.sin/ |
lancine /lɑ̃.sin/ |
lancinons /lɑ̃.si.nɔ̃/ |
lancinez /lɑ̃.si.ne/ |
lancinent /lɑ̃.sin/ |
| imperfect | lancinais /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/ |
lancinais /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/ |
lancinait /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/ |
lancinions /lɑ̃.si.njɔ̃/ |
lanciniez /lɑ̃.si.nje/ |
lancinaient /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lancinai /lɑ̃.si.ne/ |
lancinas /lɑ̃.si.na/ |
lancina /lɑ̃.si.na/ |
lancinâmes /lɑ̃.si.nam/ |
lancinâtes /lɑ̃.si.nat/ |
lancinèrent /lɑ̃.si.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | lancinerai /lɑ̃.sin.ʁe/ |
lancineras /lɑ̃.sin.ʁa/ |
lancinera /lɑ̃.sin.ʁa/ |
lancinerons /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɔ̃/ |
lancinerez /lɑ̃.sin.ʁe/ |
lancineront /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | lancinerais /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɛ/ |
lancinerais /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɛ/ |
lancinerait /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɛ/ |
lancinerions /lɑ̃.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lancineriez /lɑ̃.si.nə.ʁje/ |
lancineraient /lɑ̃.sin.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 | lancine /lɑ̃.sin/ |
lancines /lɑ̃.sin/ |
lancine /lɑ̃.sin/ |
lancinions /lɑ̃.si.njɔ̃/ |
lanciniez /lɑ̃.si.nje/ |
lancinent /lɑ̃.sin/ |
| imperfect2 | lancinasse /lɑ̃.si.nas/ |
lancinasses /lɑ̃.si.nas/ |
lancinât /lɑ̃.si.na/ |
lancinassions /lɑ̃.si.na.sjɔ̃/ |
lancinassiez /lɑ̃.si.na.sje/ |
lancinassent /lɑ̃.si.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | lancine /lɑ̃.sin/ |
— | lancinons /lɑ̃.si.nɔ̃/ |
lancinez /lɑ̃.si.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 edit
Further reading edit
- “lanciner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
lanciner