incliner

English

Etymology

incline +‎ -er

Noun

incliner (plural incliners)

1. Someone or something that inclines, especially an inclined dial.

References

• “incliner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inclīnāre (“incline, tilt”). Supplanted the inherited Old French encliner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kli.ne/

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Verb

incliner

1. to incline
2. (reflexive) to lose
3. (reflexive) to set, to go down

Conjugation

Conjugation of incliner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	incliner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inclinant /ɛ̃.kli.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		incliné /ɛ̃.kli.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	incline /ɛ̃.klin/	inclines /ɛ̃.klin/	incline /ɛ̃.klin/	inclinons /ɛ̃.kli.nɔ̃/	inclinez /ɛ̃.kli.ne/	inclinent /ɛ̃.klin/
	imperfect	inclinais /ɛ̃.kli.nɛ/	inclinais /ɛ̃.kli.nɛ/	inclinait /ɛ̃.kli.nɛ/	inclinions /ɛ̃.kli.njɔ̃/	incliniez /ɛ̃.kli.nje/	inclinaient /ɛ̃.kli.nɛ/
	past historic2	inclinai /ɛ̃.kli.ne/	inclinas /ɛ̃.kli.na/	inclina /ɛ̃.kli.na/	inclinâmes /ɛ̃.kli.nam/	inclinâtes /ɛ̃.kli.nat/	inclinèrent /ɛ̃.kli.nɛʁ/
	future	inclinerai /ɛ̃.klin.ʁe/	inclineras /ɛ̃.klin.ʁa/	inclinera /ɛ̃.klin.ʁa/	inclinerons /ɛ̃.klin.ʁɔ̃/	inclinerez /ɛ̃.klin.ʁe/	inclineront /ɛ̃.klin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inclinerais /ɛ̃.klin.ʁɛ/	inclinerais /ɛ̃.klin.ʁɛ/	inclinerait /ɛ̃.klin.ʁɛ/	inclinerions /ɛ̃.kli.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	inclineriez /ɛ̃.kli.nə.ʁje/	inclineraient /ɛ̃.klin.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	incline /ɛ̃.klin/	inclines /ɛ̃.klin/	incline /ɛ̃.klin/	inclinions /ɛ̃.kli.njɔ̃/	incliniez /ɛ̃.kli.nje/	inclinent /ɛ̃.klin/
	imperfect2	inclinasse /ɛ̃.kli.nas/	inclinasses /ɛ̃.kli.nas/	inclinât /ɛ̃.kli.na/	inclinassions /ɛ̃.kli.na.sjɔ̃/	inclinassiez /ɛ̃.kli.na.sje/	inclinassent /ɛ̃.kli.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	incline /ɛ̃.klin/	—	inclinons /ɛ̃.kli.nɔ̃/	inclinez /ɛ̃.kli.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

• inclinaison
• plan incliné

Related terms

• inclination

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

inclīner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of inclīnō