chiner
French edit
Etymology edit
In the dye sense from Chine + -er, the others clipping of échiner.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
chiner
- to dye and interweave fabrics into
- to take the piss out of
- to look around, to lurk
- 2021 July 2, 1PLIKÉ140 (lyrics and music), “Poison”[1]:
- L’bigo, on l’met en sourdine juste avant d’aller chiner
- The celly, we put on the silencer just before going to lurk
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of chiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chinant /ʃi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chiné /ʃi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chine /ʃin/ |
chines /ʃin/ |
chine /ʃin/ |
chinons /ʃi.nɔ̃/ |
chinez /ʃi.ne/ |
chinent /ʃin/ |
| imperfect | chinais /ʃi.nɛ/ |
chinais /ʃi.nɛ/ |
chinait /ʃi.nɛ/ |
chinions /ʃi.njɔ̃/ |
chiniez /ʃi.nje/ |
chinaient /ʃi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chinai /ʃi.ne/ |
chinas /ʃi.na/ |
china /ʃi.na/ |
chinâmes /ʃi.nam/ |
chinâtes /ʃi.nat/ |
chinèrent /ʃi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | chinerai /ʃin.ʁe/ |
chineras /ʃin.ʁa/ |
chinera /ʃin.ʁa/ |
chinerons /ʃin.ʁɔ̃/ |
chinerez /ʃin.ʁe/ |
chineront /ʃin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chinerais /ʃin.ʁɛ/ |
chinerais /ʃin.ʁɛ/ |
chinerait /ʃin.ʁɛ/ |
chinerions /ʃi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chineriez /ʃi.nə.ʁje/ |
chineraient /ʃin.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 | chine /ʃin/ |
chines /ʃin/ |
chine /ʃin/ |
chinions /ʃi.njɔ̃/ |
chiniez /ʃi.nje/ |
chinent /ʃin/ |
| imperfect2 | chinasse /ʃi.nas/ |
chinasses /ʃi.nas/ |
chinât /ʃi.na/ |
chinassions /ʃi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
chinassiez /ʃi.na.sje/ |
chinassent /ʃi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chine /ʃin/ |
— | chinons /ʃi.nɔ̃/ |
chinez /ʃi.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
- “chiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.