diner
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See also dîner
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diner (plural diners)
- Agent noun of dine; one who dines; one who eats a meal, especially dinner.
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. –Calvin Trillin
- A small and inexpensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a dining car.
- A railroad dining car.
- The diner is everybody's kitchen. –Richard Gutman
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- See also Wikisaurus:pub
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a small and expensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a dining car
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diner
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diner
- Alternative spelling of dîner.
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Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | diner | avoir diné | |||||
| gerund | en dinant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | dinant | ||||||
| past participle | diné | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dine | dines | dine | dinons | dinez | dinent |
| imperfect | dinais | dinais | dinait | dinions | diniez | dinaient | |
| past historic | dinai | dinas | dina | dinâmes | dinâtes | dinèrent | |
| future | dinerai | dineras | dinera | dinerons | dinerez | dineront | |
| conditional | dinerais | dinerais | dinerait | dinerions | dineriez | dineraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dine | dines | dine | dinions | diniez | dinent |
| imperfect | dinasse | dinasses | dinât | dinassions | dinassiez | dinassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | dine | — | dinons | dinez | — | ||
