pateliner
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
pateliner (formal)
- (transitive, intransitive) to finesse, to be as if in one’s own field (with), to handle oneself / to handle deftly, to be slippery as an eel (towards)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of pateliner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pateliner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | patelinant /pa.tli.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pateliné /pa.tli.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pateline /pa.tlin/ |
patelines /pa.tlin/ |
pateline /pa.tlin/ |
patelinons /pa.tli.nɔ̃/ |
patelinez /pa.tli.ne/ |
patelinent /pa.tlin/ |
| imperfect | patelinais /pa.tli.nɛ/ |
patelinais /pa.tli.nɛ/ |
patelinait /pa.tli.nɛ/ |
patelinions /pa.tli.njɔ̃/ |
pateliniez /pa.tli.nje/ |
patelinaient /pa.tli.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | patelinai /pa.tli.ne/ |
patelinas /pa.tli.na/ |
patelina /pa.tli.na/ |
patelinâmes /pa.tli.nam/ |
patelinâtes /pa.tli.nat/ |
patelinèrent /pa.tli.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | patelinerai /pa.tlin.ʁe/ |
patelineras /pa.tlin.ʁa/ |
patelinera /pa.tlin.ʁa/ |
patelinerons /pa.tlin.ʁɔ̃/ |
patelinerez /pa.tlin.ʁe/ |
patelineront /pa.tlin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | patelinerais /pa.tlin.ʁɛ/ |
patelinerais /pa.tlin.ʁɛ/ |
patelinerait /pa.tlin.ʁɛ/ |
patelinerions /pa.tli.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
patelineriez /pa.tli.nə.ʁje/ |
patelineraient /pa.tlin.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 | pateline /pa.tlin/ |
patelines /pa.tlin/ |
pateline /pa.tlin/ |
patelinions /pa.tli.njɔ̃/ |
pateliniez /pa.tli.nje/ |
patelinent /pa.tlin/ |
| imperfect2 | patelinasse /pa.tli.nas/ |
patelinasses /pa.tli.nas/ |
patelinât /pa.tli.na/ |
patelinassions /pa.tli.na.sjɔ̃/ |
patelinassiez /pa.tli.na.sje/ |
patelinassent /pa.tli.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pateline /pa.tlin/ |
— | patelinons /pa.tli.nɔ̃/ |
patelinez /pa.tli.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “pateliner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.