mâtiner

See also: matiner

French

Etymology

From mâtin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ti.ne/ ~ /mɑ.ti.ne/

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Verb

mâtiner

1. (transitive) to crossbreed
2. (transitive) to mix

Conjugation

Conjugation of mâtiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mâtiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mâtinant /ma.ti.nɑ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mâtiné /ma.ti.ne/ or /mɑ.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mâtine /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	mâtines /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	mâtine /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	mâtinons /ma.ti.nɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.nɔ̃/	mâtinez /ma.ti.ne/ or /mɑ.ti.ne/	mâtinent /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/
	imperfect	mâtinais /ma.ti.nɛ/ or /mɑ.ti.nɛ/	mâtinais /ma.ti.nɛ/ or /mɑ.ti.nɛ/	mâtinait /ma.ti.nɛ/ or /mɑ.ti.nɛ/	mâtinions /ma.ti.njɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.njɔ̃/	mâtiniez /ma.ti.nje/ or /mɑ.ti.nje/	mâtinaient /ma.ti.nɛ/ or /mɑ.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	mâtinai /ma.ti.ne/ or /mɑ.ti.ne/	mâtinas /ma.ti.na/ or /mɑ.ti.na/	mâtina /ma.ti.na/ or /mɑ.ti.na/	mâtinâmes /ma.ti.nam/ or /mɑ.ti.nam/	mâtinâtes /ma.ti.nat/ or /mɑ.ti.nat/	mâtinèrent /ma.ti.nɛʁ/ or /mɑ.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	mâtinerai /ma.tin.ʁe/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁe/	mâtineras /ma.tin.ʁa/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁa/	mâtinera /ma.tin.ʁa/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁa/	mâtinerons /ma.tin.ʁɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁɔ̃/	mâtinerez /ma.tin.ʁe/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁe/	mâtineront /ma.tin.ʁɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mâtinerais /ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁɛ/	mâtinerais /ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁɛ/	mâtinerait /ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tin.ʁɛ/	mâtinerions /ma.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	mâtineriez /ma.ti.nə.ʁje/ or /mɑ.ti.nə.ʁje/	mâtineraient /ma.tin.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tin.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	mâtine /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	mâtines /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	mâtine /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	mâtinions /ma.ti.njɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.njɔ̃/	mâtiniez /ma.ti.nje/ or /mɑ.ti.nje/	mâtinent /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/
	imperfect2	mâtinasse /ma.ti.nas/ or /mɑ.ti.nas/	mâtinasses /ma.ti.nas/ or /mɑ.ti.nas/	mâtinât /ma.ti.na/ or /mɑ.ti.na/	mâtinassions /ma.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	mâtinassiez /ma.ti.na.sje/ or /mɑ.ti.na.sje/	mâtinassent /ma.ti.nas/ or /mɑ.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mâtine /ma.tin/ or /mɑ.tin/	—	mâtinons /ma.ti.nɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ti.nɔ̃/	mâtinez /ma.ti.ne/ or /mɑ.ti.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).

See also

• abâtardir

Further reading

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