swinguer

French

Etymology

From English to swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swiŋ.ɡe/

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Verb

swinguer

1. to swing (dance)

Conjugation

Conjugation of swinguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	swinguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	swinguant /swiŋ.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		swingué /swiŋ.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	swingue /swiŋɡ/	swingues /swiŋɡ/	swingue /swiŋɡ/	swinguons /swiŋ.ɡɔ̃/	swinguez /swiŋ.ɡe/	swinguent /swiŋɡ/
	imperfect	swinguais /swiŋ.ɡɛ/	swinguais /swiŋ.ɡɛ/	swinguait /swiŋ.ɡɛ/	swinguions /swiŋ.ɡjɔ̃/	swinguiez /swiŋ.ɡje/	swinguaient /swiŋ.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	swinguai /swiŋ.ɡe/	swinguas /swiŋ.ɡa/	swingua /swiŋ.ɡa/	swinguâmes /swiŋ.ɡam/	swinguâtes /swiŋ.ɡat/	swinguèrent /swiŋ.ɡɛʁ/
	future	swinguerai /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁe/	swingueras /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁa/	swinguera /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁa/	swinguerons /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/	swinguerez /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁe/	swingueront /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	swinguerais /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁɛ/	swinguerais /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁɛ/	swinguerait /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁɛ/	swinguerions /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	swingueriez /swiŋ.ɡə.ʁje/	swingueraient /swiŋ.ɡə.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	swingue /swiŋɡ/	swingues /swiŋɡ/	swingue /swiŋɡ/	swinguions /swiŋ.ɡjɔ̃/	swinguiez /swiŋ.ɡje/	swinguent /swiŋɡ/
	imperfect2	swinguasse /swiŋ.ɡas/	swinguasses /swiŋ.ɡas/	swinguât /swiŋ.ɡa/	swinguassions /swiŋ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	swinguassiez /swiŋ.ɡa.sje/	swinguassent /swiŋ.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	swingue /swiŋɡ/	—	swinguons /swiŋ.ɡɔ̃/	swinguez /swiŋ.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

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