dîner

See also: diner, Diner, and dīner

French

Alternative forms

• diner (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”), from dis- + Late Latin iēiūnō, iēiūnāre (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus. Doublet of déjeuner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ne/

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Verb

dîner

1. to dine

   Synonyms: manger, déjeuner

Conjugation

Conjugation of dîner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dîner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dînant /di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dîné /di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dîne /din/	dînes /din/	dîne /din/	dînons /di.nɔ̃/	dînez /di.ne/	dînent /din/
	imperfect	dînais /di.nɛ/	dînais /di.nɛ/	dînait /di.nɛ/	dînions /di.njɔ̃/	dîniez /di.nje/	dînaient /di.nɛ/
	past historic2	dînai /di.ne/	dînas /di.na/	dîna /di.na/	dînâmes /di.nam/	dînâtes /di.nat/	dînèrent /di.nɛʁ/
	future	dînerai /din.ʁe/	dîneras /din.ʁa/	dînera /din.ʁa/	dînerons /din.ʁɔ̃/	dînerez /din.ʁe/	dîneront /din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dînerais /din.ʁɛ/	dînerais /din.ʁɛ/	dînerait /din.ʁɛ/	dînerions /di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	dîneriez /di.nə.ʁje/	dîneraient /din.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	dîne /din/	dînes /din/	dîne /din/	dînions /di.njɔ̃/	dîniez /di.nje/	dînent /din/
	imperfect2	dînasse /di.nas/	dînasses /di.nas/	dînât /di.na/	dînassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/	dînassiez /di.na.sje/	dînassent /di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dîne /din/	—	dînons /di.nɔ̃/	dînez /di.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 only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Noun

dîner m (plural dîners)

1. dinner, evening meal
2. (Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Congo, Louisiana) lunch, midday meal

Derived terms

• c'est de la moutarde après dîner

Further reading

• “dîner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).