flinguer

French

Etymology

From flingue +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɛ̃.ɡe/

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Verb

flinguer

1. (colloquial) to gun, to gun down
2. (colloquial, reflexive) to commit suicide with a gun
   • 2012, Bastien Vivès, L'amour (shampooing), Delcourt, →ISBN, page 168:

     Eh bien, j’ai prévu de profiter encore 2,3 années potables qu’il me reste à vivre et ensuite je me flingue.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of flinguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flinguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flinguant /flɛ̃.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flingué /flɛ̃.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	flingue /flɛ̃ɡ/	flingues /flɛ̃ɡ/	flingue /flɛ̃ɡ/	flinguons /flɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	flinguez /flɛ̃.ɡe/	flinguent /flɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect	flinguais /flɛ̃.ɡɛ/	flinguais /flɛ̃.ɡɛ/	flinguait /flɛ̃.ɡɛ/	flinguions /flɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	flinguiez /flɛ̃.ɡje/	flinguaient /flɛ̃.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	flinguai /flɛ̃.ɡe/	flinguas /flɛ̃.ɡa/	flingua /flɛ̃.ɡa/	flinguâmes /flɛ̃.ɡam/	flinguâtes /flɛ̃.ɡat/	flinguèrent /flɛ̃.ɡɛʁ/
	future	flinguerai /flɛ̃.ɡʁe/	flingueras /flɛ̃.ɡʁa/	flinguera /flɛ̃.ɡʁa/	flinguerons /flɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/	flinguerez /flɛ̃.ɡʁe/	flingueront /flɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flinguerais /flɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	flinguerais /flɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	flinguerait /flɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	flinguerions /flɛ̃.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	flingueriez /flɛ̃.ɡə.ʁje/	flingueraient /flɛ̃.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	flingue /flɛ̃ɡ/	flingues /flɛ̃ɡ/	flingue /flɛ̃ɡ/	flinguions /flɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	flinguiez /flɛ̃.ɡje/	flinguent /flɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect2	flinguasse /flɛ̃.ɡas/	flinguasses /flɛ̃.ɡas/	flinguât /flɛ̃.ɡa/	flinguassions /flɛ̃.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	flinguassiez /flɛ̃.ɡa.sje/	flinguassent /flɛ̃.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	flingue /flɛ̃ɡ/	—	flinguons /flɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	flinguez /flɛ̃.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: 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).

Further reading

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