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)

		simple			compound
infinitive		dîner			avoir + past participle
gerund		en dînant			en ayant + past participle
present participle		dînant /di.nɑ̃/
past participle		dîné /di.ne/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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 anterior1	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	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	dîne /din/	dînes /din/	dîne /din/	dînions /di.njɔ̃/	dîniez /di.nje/	dînent /din/
	imperfect1	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
	pluperfect1	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
present		—	dîne /din/	—	dînons /di.nɔ̃/	dînez /di.ne/	—
past		—	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	—	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	—
1 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).
2 Trudie Maria Booth (2005), French Verbs and Idioms, p. 88.

Noun

dîner m (plural dîners)

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

Further reading

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