glander

See also: Glander

French

Etymology

From gland +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

glander

1. (slang, transitive) to do

   Synonyms: foutre, fabriquer, branler

   Qu’est-ce que tu glandes? ― What the hell are you doing?

2. (slang, intransitive) to loaf around, to bum around, to cabbage

Conjugation

Conjugation of glander (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	glander
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	glandant /ɡlɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		glandé /ɡlɑ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	glande /ɡlɑ̃d/	glandes /ɡlɑ̃d/	glande /ɡlɑ̃d/	glandons /ɡlɑ̃.dɔ̃/	glandez /ɡlɑ̃.de/	glandent /ɡlɑ̃d/
	imperfect	glandais /ɡlɑ̃.dɛ/	glandais /ɡlɑ̃.dɛ/	glandait /ɡlɑ̃.dɛ/	glandions /ɡlɑ̃.djɔ̃/	glandiez /ɡlɑ̃.dje/	glandaient /ɡlɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	glandai /ɡlɑ̃.de/	glandas /ɡlɑ̃.da/	glanda /ɡlɑ̃.da/	glandâmes /ɡlɑ̃.dam/	glandâtes /ɡlɑ̃.dat/	glandèrent /ɡlɑ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	glanderai /ɡlɑ̃.dʁe/	glanderas /ɡlɑ̃.dʁa/	glandera /ɡlɑ̃.dʁa/	glanderons /ɡlɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	glanderez /ɡlɑ̃.dʁe/	glanderont /ɡlɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	glanderais /ɡlɑ̃.dʁɛ/	glanderais /ɡlɑ̃.dʁɛ/	glanderait /ɡlɑ̃.dʁɛ/	glanderions /ɡlɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	glanderiez /ɡlɑ̃.də.ʁje/	glanderaient /ɡlɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	glande /ɡlɑ̃d/	glandes /ɡlɑ̃d/	glande /ɡlɑ̃d/	glandions /ɡlɑ̃.djɔ̃/	glandiez /ɡlɑ̃.dje/	glandent /ɡlɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	glandasse /ɡlɑ̃.das/	glandasses /ɡlɑ̃.das/	glandât /ɡlɑ̃.da/	glandassions /ɡlɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	glandassiez /ɡlɑ̃.da.sje/	glandassent /ɡlɑ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	glande /ɡlɑ̃d/	—	glandons /ɡlɑ̃.dɔ̃/	glandez /ɡlɑ̃.de/	—
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

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