câliner

French

Etymology

Via Old French from Vulgar Latin *calina, which is from Latin calidus (“warm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.ne/ ~ /kɑ.li.ne/

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Verb

câliner

1. to be physically affectionate; to cuddle

Conjugation

Conjugation of câliner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	câliner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	câlinant /ka.li.nɑ̃/ or /kɑ.li.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		câliné /ka.li.ne/ or /kɑ.li.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	câline /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	câlines /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	câline /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	câlinons /ka.li.nɔ̃/ or /kɑ.li.nɔ̃/	câlinez /ka.li.ne/ or /kɑ.li.ne/	câlinent /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/
	imperfect	câlinais /ka.li.nɛ/ or /kɑ.li.nɛ/	câlinais /ka.li.nɛ/ or /kɑ.li.nɛ/	câlinait /ka.li.nɛ/ or /kɑ.li.nɛ/	câlinions /ka.li.njɔ̃/ or /kɑ.li.njɔ̃/	câliniez /ka.li.nje/ or /kɑ.li.nje/	câlinaient /ka.li.nɛ/ or /kɑ.li.nɛ/
	past historic2	câlinai /ka.li.ne/ or /kɑ.li.ne/	câlinas /ka.li.na/ or /kɑ.li.na/	câlina /ka.li.na/ or /kɑ.li.na/	câlinâmes /ka.li.nam/ or /kɑ.li.nam/	câlinâtes /ka.li.nat/ or /kɑ.li.nat/	câlinèrent /ka.li.nɛʁ/ or /kɑ.li.nɛʁ/
	future	câlinerai /ka.lin.ʁe/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁe/	câlineras /ka.lin.ʁa/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁa/	câlinera /ka.lin.ʁa/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁa/	câlinerons /ka.lin.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁɔ̃/	câlinerez /ka.lin.ʁe/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁe/	câlineront /ka.lin.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	câlinerais /ka.lin.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁɛ/	câlinerais /ka.lin.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁɛ/	câlinerait /ka.lin.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.lin.ʁɛ/	câlinerions /ka.li.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.li.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	câlineriez /ka.li.nə.ʁje/ or /kɑ.li.nə.ʁje/	câlineraient /ka.lin.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.lin.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	câline /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	câlines /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	câline /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	câlinions /ka.li.njɔ̃/ or /kɑ.li.njɔ̃/	câliniez /ka.li.nje/ or /kɑ.li.nje/	câlinent /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/
	imperfect2	câlinasse /ka.li.nas/ or /kɑ.li.nas/	câlinasses /ka.li.nas/ or /kɑ.li.nas/	câlinât /ka.li.na/ or /kɑ.li.na/	câlinassions /ka.li.na.sjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.li.na.sjɔ̃/	câlinassiez /ka.li.na.sje/ or /kɑ.li.na.sje/	câlinassent /ka.li.nas/ or /kɑ.li.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	câline /ka.lin/ or /kɑ.lin/	—	câlinons /ka.li.nɔ̃/ or /kɑ.li.nɔ̃/	câlinez /ka.li.ne/ or /kɑ.li.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).

Related terms

• câlin

Anagrams

• lancier