dandiner

French

Etymology

From dandin +‎ -er, or from Middle Dutch dantinnen (“to trifle”). More at dandle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.di.ne/

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Verb

dandiner

1. (informal) to waddle (about), to toddle

Conjugation

Conjugation of dandiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dandiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dandinant /dɑ̃.di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dandiné /dɑ̃.di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dandine /dɑ̃.din/	dandines /dɑ̃.din/	dandine /dɑ̃.din/	dandinons /dɑ̃.di.nɔ̃/	dandinez /dɑ̃.di.ne/	dandinent /dɑ̃.din/
	imperfect	dandinais /dɑ̃.di.nɛ/	dandinais /dɑ̃.di.nɛ/	dandinait /dɑ̃.di.nɛ/	dandinions /dɑ̃.di.njɔ̃/	dandiniez /dɑ̃.di.nje/	dandinaient /dɑ̃.di.nɛ/
	past historic2	dandinai /dɑ̃.di.ne/	dandinas /dɑ̃.di.na/	dandina /dɑ̃.di.na/	dandinâmes /dɑ̃.di.nam/	dandinâtes /dɑ̃.di.nat/	dandinèrent /dɑ̃.di.nɛʁ/
	future	dandinerai /dɑ̃.din.ʁe/	dandineras /dɑ̃.din.ʁa/	dandinera /dɑ̃.din.ʁa/	dandinerons /dɑ̃.din.ʁɔ̃/	dandinerez /dɑ̃.din.ʁe/	dandineront /dɑ̃.din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dandinerais /dɑ̃.din.ʁɛ/	dandinerais /dɑ̃.din.ʁɛ/	dandinerait /dɑ̃.din.ʁɛ/	dandinerions /dɑ̃.di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	dandineriez /dɑ̃.di.nə.ʁje/	dandineraient /dɑ̃.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	dandine /dɑ̃.din/	dandines /dɑ̃.din/	dandine /dɑ̃.din/	dandinions /dɑ̃.di.njɔ̃/	dandiniez /dɑ̃.di.nje/	dandinent /dɑ̃.din/
	imperfect2	dandinasse /dɑ̃.di.nas/	dandinasses /dɑ̃.di.nas/	dandinât /dɑ̃.di.na/	dandinassions /dɑ̃.di.na.sjɔ̃/	dandinassiez /dɑ̃.di.na.sje/	dandinassent /dɑ̃.di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dandine /dɑ̃.din/	—	dandinons /dɑ̃.di.nɔ̃/	dandinez /dɑ̃.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 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).

Derived terms

• dandinement

Descendants

• Danish: dandere

Further reading

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