dialoguer

English

Alternative forms

• dialoger

Etymology

dialogue +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix)

Noun

dialoguer (plural dialoguers)

1. A participant in a dialogue.
   • 2014, Oliver O. Nwachukwu, Those Challenging Cracks of Secularism: In and Beyond‎^[1]:

     Actions cannot be guaranteed if dialoguers are blinded by refusal to change from mistrust to trust, from suspicion to recognition.

2. A person employed to write dialogue for characters in a soap opera or similar show.

French

Etymology

From dialogue +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.lɔ.ɡe/

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Verb

dialoguer

1. to dialogue, discuss, negotiate

   Plus de dix mille personnes, venues au Mexique de tous les continents, ont suivi pendant trois jours les conférences du congrès théologique et pastoral, qui témoignait de la pugnacité du catholicisme à une époque de crise, mais aussi de sa difficulté à dialoguer avec ceux qui contestent sa doctrine.

   More than ten million people, arriving in Mexico from every continent, attended conferences of the theological and pastoral congress for three days, bearing witness to the pugnacity of Catholicism in an era of crisis, but also to the difficulty it finds in engaging in dialogue with those who contest its doctrines.

Conjugation

Conjugation of dialoguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dialoguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dialoguant /dja.lɔ.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dialogué /dja.lɔ.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/	dialogues /dja.lɔɡ/	dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/	dialoguons /dja.lɔ.ɡɔ̃/	dialoguez /dja.lɔ.ɡe/	dialoguent /dja.lɔɡ/
	imperfect	dialoguais /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/	dialoguais /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/	dialoguait /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/	dialoguions /dja.lɔ.ɡjɔ̃/	dialoguiez /dja.lɔ.ɡje/	dialoguaient /dja.lɔ.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	dialoguai /dja.lɔ.ɡe/	dialoguas /dja.lɔ.ɡa/	dialogua /dja.lɔ.ɡa/	dialoguâmes /dja.lɔ.ɡam/	dialoguâtes /dja.lɔ.ɡat/	dialoguèrent /dja.lɔ.ɡɛʁ/
	future	dialoguerai /dja.lɔ.ɡʁe/	dialogueras /dja.lɔ.ɡʁa/	dialoguera /dja.lɔ.ɡʁa/	dialoguerons /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/	dialoguerez /dja.lɔ.ɡʁe/	dialogueront /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dialoguerais /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/	dialoguerais /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/	dialoguerait /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/	dialoguerions /dja.lɔ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	dialogueriez /dja.lɔ.ɡə.ʁje/	dialogueraient /dja.lɔ.ɡʁɛ/
(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	dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/	dialogues /dja.lɔɡ/	dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/	dialoguions /dja.lɔ.ɡjɔ̃/	dialoguiez /dja.lɔ.ɡje/	dialoguent /dja.lɔɡ/
	imperfect2	dialoguasse /dja.lɔ.ɡas/	dialoguasses /dja.lɔ.ɡas/	dialoguât /dja.lɔ.ɡa/	dialoguassions /dja.lɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	dialoguassiez /dja.lɔ.ɡa.sje/	dialoguassent /dja.lɔ.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dialogue /dja.lɔɡ/	—	dialoguons /dja.lɔ.ɡɔ̃/	dialoguez /dja.lɔ.ɡe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• gaudriole