dialoguer
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
dialogue + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix)
Noun edit
dialoguer (plural dialoguers)
- A participant in a dialogue.
- 2014, Oliver O. Nwachukwu, Those Challenging Cracks of Secularism: In and Beyond[1]:
- Actions cannot be guaranteed if dialoguers are blinded by refusal to change from mistrust to trust, from suspicion to recognition.
- A person employed to write dialogue for characters in a soap opera or similar show.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dialoguer
- to dialogue, discuss, negotiate
- Plus de dix mille personnes, venues au Mexique de tous les continents, ont suivi pendant trois jours les conférences du congrès théologique et pastoral, qui témoignait de la pugnacité du catholicisme à une époque de crise, mais aussi de sa difficulté à dialoguer avec ceux qui contestent sa doctrine.
- More than ten million people, arriving in Mexico from every continent, attended conferences of the theological and pastoral congress for three days, bearing witness to the pugnacity of Catholicism in an era of crisis, but also to the difficulty it finds in engaging in dialogue with those who contest its doctrines.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of dialoguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dialoguer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dialoguant /dja.lɔ.ɡɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dialogué /dja.lɔ.ɡe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/ |
dialogues /dja.lɔɡ/ |
dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/ |
dialoguons /dja.lɔ.ɡɔ̃/ |
dialoguez /dja.lɔ.ɡe/ |
dialoguent /dja.lɔɡ/ |
| imperfect | dialoguais /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/ |
dialoguais /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/ |
dialoguait /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/ |
dialoguions /dja.lɔ.ɡjɔ̃/ |
dialoguiez /dja.lɔ.ɡje/ |
dialoguaient /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dialoguai /dja.lɔ.ɡe/ |
dialoguas /dja.lɔ.ɡa/ |
dialogua /dja.lɔ.ɡa/ |
dialoguâmes /dja.lɔ.ɡam/ |
dialoguâtes /dja.lɔ.ɡat/ |
dialoguèrent /dja.lɔ.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | dialoguerai /dja.lɔ.ɡʁe/ |
dialogueras /dja.lɔ.ɡʁa/ |
dialoguera /dja.lɔ.ɡʁa/ |
dialoguerons /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/ |
dialoguerez /dja.lɔ.ɡʁe/ |
dialogueront /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dialoguerais /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/ |
dialoguerais /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/ |
dialoguerait /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/ |
dialoguerions /dja.lɔ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dialogueriez /dja.lɔ.ɡə.ʁje/ |
dialogueraient /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/ |
dialogues /dja.lɔɡ/ |
dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/ |
dialoguions /dja.lɔ.ɡjɔ̃/ |
dialoguiez /dja.lɔ.ɡje/ |
dialoguent /dja.lɔɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | dialoguasse /dja.lɔ.ɡas/ |
dialoguasses /dja.lɔ.ɡas/ |
dialoguât /dja.lɔ.ɡa/ |
dialoguassions /dja.lɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
dialoguassiez /dja.lɔ.ɡa.sje/ |
dialoguassent /dja.lɔ.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/ |
— | dialoguons /dja.lɔ.ɡɔ̃/ |
dialoguez /dja.lɔ.ɡe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “dialoguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.