coltiner

French

Alternative forms

• colletiner (dated)

Etymology

From colletin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔl.ti.ne/

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Verb

coltiner

1. (transitive, dated) to lug, to carry on the shoulder
2. (pronominal, informal, se coltiner) to get lumbered with, to get stuck with

   Synonyms: se taper, se farcir

Conjugation

Conjugation of coltiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coltiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	coltinant /kɔl.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coltiné /kɔl.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	coltine /kɔl.tin/	coltines /kɔl.tin/	coltine /kɔl.tin/	coltinons /kɔl.ti.nɔ̃/	coltinez /kɔl.ti.ne/	coltinent /kɔl.tin/
	imperfect	coltinais /kɔl.ti.nɛ/	coltinais /kɔl.ti.nɛ/	coltinait /kɔl.ti.nɛ/	coltinions /kɔl.ti.njɔ̃/	coltiniez /kɔl.ti.nje/	coltinaient /kɔl.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	coltinai /kɔl.ti.ne/	coltinas /kɔl.ti.na/	coltina /kɔl.ti.na/	coltinâmes /kɔl.ti.nam/	coltinâtes /kɔl.ti.nat/	coltinèrent /kɔl.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	coltinerai /kɔl.tin.ʁe/	coltineras /kɔl.tin.ʁa/	coltinera /kɔl.tin.ʁa/	coltinerons /kɔl.tin.ʁɔ̃/	coltinerez /kɔl.tin.ʁe/	coltineront /kɔl.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coltinerais /kɔl.tin.ʁɛ/	coltinerais /kɔl.tin.ʁɛ/	coltinerait /kɔl.tin.ʁɛ/	coltinerions /kɔl.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	coltineriez /kɔl.ti.nə.ʁje/	coltineraient /kɔl.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	coltine /kɔl.tin/	coltines /kɔl.tin/	coltine /kɔl.tin/	coltinions /kɔl.ti.njɔ̃/	coltiniez /kɔl.ti.nje/	coltinent /kɔl.tin/
	imperfect2	coltinasse /kɔl.ti.nas/	coltinasses /kɔl.ti.nas/	coltinât /kɔl.ti.na/	coltinassions /kɔl.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	coltinassiez /kɔl.ti.na.sje/	coltinassent /kɔl.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	coltine /kɔl.tin/	—	coltinons /kɔl.ti.nɔ̃/	coltinez /kɔl.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).

Further reading

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