cuisiner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cocīnāre, from Latin coquīnāre. By surface analysis, cuisine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.zi.ne/

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Verb

cuisiner

1. (transitive) to cook (prepare food)

   Elle a cuisiné un très bon plat.

   She made a very nice meal.

2. (colloquial) to grill (bombard with questions)

   Les policiers m’ont cuisiné tout l’après-midi.

   The police grilled me all afternoon.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuisiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cuisiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cuisinant /kɥi.zi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cuisiné /kɥi.zi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cuisine /kɥi.zin/	cuisines /kɥi.zin/	cuisine /kɥi.zin/	cuisinons /kɥi.zi.nɔ̃/	cuisinez /kɥi.zi.ne/	cuisinent /kɥi.zin/
	imperfect	cuisinais /kɥi.zi.nɛ/	cuisinais /kɥi.zi.nɛ/	cuisinait /kɥi.zi.nɛ/	cuisinions /kɥi.zi.njɔ̃/	cuisiniez /kɥi.zi.nje/	cuisinaient /kɥi.zi.nɛ/
	past historic2	cuisinai /kɥi.zi.ne/	cuisinas /kɥi.zi.na/	cuisina /kɥi.zi.na/	cuisinâmes /kɥi.zi.nam/	cuisinâtes /kɥi.zi.nat/	cuisinèrent /kɥi.zi.nɛʁ/
	future	cuisinerai /kɥi.zin.ʁe/	cuisineras /kɥi.zin.ʁa/	cuisinera /kɥi.zin.ʁa/	cuisinerons /kɥi.zin.ʁɔ̃/	cuisinerez /kɥi.zin.ʁe/	cuisineront /kɥi.zin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cuisinerais /kɥi.zin.ʁɛ/	cuisinerais /kɥi.zin.ʁɛ/	cuisinerait /kɥi.zin.ʁɛ/	cuisinerions /kɥi.zi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cuisineriez /kɥi.zi.nə.ʁje/	cuisineraient /kɥi.zin.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	cuisine /kɥi.zin/	cuisines /kɥi.zin/	cuisine /kɥi.zin/	cuisinions /kɥi.zi.njɔ̃/	cuisiniez /kɥi.zi.nje/	cuisinent /kɥi.zin/
	imperfect2	cuisinasse /kɥi.zi.nas/	cuisinasses /kɥi.zi.nas/	cuisinât /kɥi.zi.na/	cuisinassions /kɥi.zi.na.sjɔ̃/	cuisinassiez /kɥi.zi.na.sje/	cuisinassent /kɥi.zi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cuisine /kɥi.zin/	—	cuisinons /kɥi.zi.nɔ̃/	cuisinez /kɥi.zi.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).

Derived terms

• cuisinier
• cuisinière

 

Related terms

• cuire
• cuisine

 

Further reading

• “cuisiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.