amâtiner

French

Etymology

From à +‎ mâtin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.ti.ne/ ~ /a.mɑ.ti.ne/

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Verb

amâtiner

1. (obsolete) to crossbreed a wolf or large guard dog with a bitch (female dog)

Conjugation

Conjugation of amâtiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amâtiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amâtinant /a.ma.ti.nɑ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amâtiné /a.ma.ti.ne/ or /a.mɑ.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amâtine /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	amâtines /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	amâtine /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	amâtinons /a.ma.ti.nɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɔ̃/	amâtinez /a.ma.ti.ne/ or /a.mɑ.ti.ne/	amâtinent /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/
	imperfect	amâtinais /a.ma.ti.nɛ/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɛ/	amâtinais /a.ma.ti.nɛ/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɛ/	amâtinait /a.ma.ti.nɛ/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɛ/	amâtinions /a.ma.ti.njɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.njɔ̃/	amâtiniez /a.ma.ti.nje/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nje/	amâtinaient /a.ma.ti.nɛ/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	amâtinai /a.ma.ti.ne/ or /a.mɑ.ti.ne/	amâtinas /a.ma.ti.na/ or /a.mɑ.ti.na/	amâtina /a.ma.ti.na/ or /a.mɑ.ti.na/	amâtinâmes /a.ma.ti.nam/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nam/	amâtinâtes /a.ma.ti.nat/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nat/	amâtinèrent /a.ma.ti.nɛʁ/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	amâtinerai /a.ma.tin.ʁe/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁe/	amâtineras /a.ma.tin.ʁa/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁa/	amâtinera /a.ma.tin.ʁa/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁa/	amâtinerons /a.ma.tin.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁɔ̃/	amâtinerez /a.ma.tin.ʁe/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁe/	amâtineront /a.ma.tin.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amâtinerais /a.ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁɛ/	amâtinerais /a.ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁɛ/	amâtinerait /a.ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.tin.ʁɛ/	amâtinerions /a.ma.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	amâtineriez /a.ma.ti.nə.ʁje/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nə.ʁje/	amâtineraient /a.ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.tin.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	amâtine /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	amâtines /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	amâtine /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	amâtinions /a.ma.ti.njɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.njɔ̃/	amâtiniez /a.ma.ti.nje/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nje/	amâtinent /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/
	imperfect2	amâtinasse /a.ma.ti.nas/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nas/	amâtinasses /a.ma.ti.nas/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nas/	amâtinât /a.ma.ti.na/ or /a.mɑ.ti.na/	amâtinassions /a.ma.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	amâtinassiez /a.ma.ti.na.sje/ or /a.mɑ.ti.na.sje/	amâtinassent /a.ma.ti.nas/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amâtine /a.ma.tin/ or /a.mɑ.tin/	—	amâtinons /a.ma.ti.nɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.ti.nɔ̃/	amâtinez /a.ma.ti.ne/ or /a.mɑ.ti.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: 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).

Further reading

• “amâtiner” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.