dîner

See also: diner, Diner, and dīner

French

Alternative forms

• diner (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”), from dis- + Late Latin iēiūnāre (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus. Doublet of déjeuner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ne/

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Verb

dîner

1. to dine

   Synonyms: manger, déjeuner

Conjugation

Conjugation of dîner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dîner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dînant /di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dîné /di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dîne /din/	dînes /din/	dîne /din/	dînons /di.nɔ̃/	dînez /di.ne/	dînent /din/
	imperfect	dînais /di.nɛ/	dînais /di.nɛ/	dînait /di.nɛ/	dînions /di.njɔ̃/	dîniez /di.nje/	dînaient /di.nɛ/
	past historic2	dînai /di.ne/	dînas /di.na/	dîna /di.na/	dînâmes /di.nam/	dînâtes /di.nat/	dînèrent /di.nɛʁ/
	future	dînerai /din.ʁe/	dîneras /din.ʁa/	dînera /din.ʁa/	dînerons /din.ʁɔ̃/	dînerez /din.ʁe/	dîneront /din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dînerais /din.ʁɛ/	dînerais /din.ʁɛ/	dînerait /din.ʁɛ/	dînerions /di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	dîneriez /di.nə.ʁje/	dîneraient /din.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	dîne /din/	dînes /din/	dîne /din/	dînions /di.njɔ̃/	dîniez /di.nje/	dînent /din/
	imperfect2	dînasse /di.nas/	dînasses /di.nas/	dînât /di.na/	dînassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/	dînassiez /di.na.sje/	dînassent /di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dîne /din/	—	dînons /di.nɔ̃/	dînez /di.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

• qui dort dîne

Noun

dîner m (plural dîners)

1. dinner, evening meal
2. (Belgium, North America, Switzerland, Congo, Rwanda) lunch, midday meal

Derived terms

• c’est de la moutarde après dîner
• dîner aux chandelles

Further reading

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