lanterner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

lanterner

1. (intransitive) to dilly-dally
2. (transitive) to delay or put off

Conjugation

Conjugation of lanterner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lanterner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lanternant /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lanterné /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lanterne /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	lanternes /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	lanterne /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	lanternons /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/	lanternez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.ne/	lanternent /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/
	imperfect	lanternais /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɛ/	lanternais /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɛ/	lanternait /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɛ/	lanternions /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/	lanterniez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nje/	lanternaient /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɛ/
	past historic2	lanternai /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.ne/	lanternas /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.na/	lanterna /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.na/	lanternâmes /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nam/	lanternâtes /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nat/	lanternèrent /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɛʁ/
	future	lanternerai /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/	lanterneras /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/	lanternera /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/	lanternerons /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/	lanternerez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/	lanterneront /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lanternerais /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	lanternerais /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	lanternerait /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	lanternerions /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	lanterneriez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.ʁje/	lanterneraient /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nə.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	lanterne /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	lanternes /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	lanterne /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	lanternions /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/	lanterniez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nje/	lanternent /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/
	imperfect2	lanternasse /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nas/	lanternasses /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nas/	lanternât /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.na/	lanternassions /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃/	lanternassiez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.na.sje/	lanternassent /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lanterne /lɑ̃.tɛʁn/	—	lanternons /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/	lanternez /lɑ̃.tɛʁ.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).

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lanterner m or f

1. indefinite plural of lanterne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lanterner f

1. indefinite plural of lanterne