lambiner

French

Etymology

lambin +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.bi.ne/

Verb

lambiner

1. (intransitive) to dawdle

Conjugation

Conjugation of lambiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lambiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lambinant /lɑ̃.bi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lambiné /lɑ̃.bi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lambine /lɑ̃.bin/	lambines /lɑ̃.bin/	lambine /lɑ̃.bin/	lambinons /lɑ̃.bi.nɔ̃/	lambinez /lɑ̃.bi.ne/	lambinent /lɑ̃.bin/
	imperfect	lambinais /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/	lambinais /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/	lambinait /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/	lambinions /lɑ̃.bi.njɔ̃/	lambiniez /lɑ̃.bi.nje/	lambinaient /lɑ̃.bi.nɛ/
	past historic2	lambinai /lɑ̃.bi.ne/	lambinas /lɑ̃.bi.na/	lambina /lɑ̃.bi.na/	lambinâmes /lɑ̃.bi.nam/	lambinâtes /lɑ̃.bi.nat/	lambinèrent /lɑ̃.bi.nɛʁ/
	future	lambinerai /lɑ̃.bin.ʁe/	lambineras /lɑ̃.bin.ʁa/	lambinera /lɑ̃.bin.ʁa/	lambinerons /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɔ̃/	lambinerez /lɑ̃.bin.ʁe/	lambineront /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lambinerais /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɛ/	lambinerais /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɛ/	lambinerait /lɑ̃.bin.ʁɛ/	lambinerions /lɑ̃.bi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	lambineriez /lɑ̃.bi.nə.ʁje/	lambineraient /lɑ̃.bin.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	lambine /lɑ̃.bin/	lambines /lɑ̃.bin/	lambine /lɑ̃.bin/	lambinions /lɑ̃.bi.njɔ̃/	lambiniez /lɑ̃.bi.nje/	lambinent /lɑ̃.bin/
	imperfect2	lambinasse /lɑ̃.bi.nas/	lambinasses /lɑ̃.bi.nas/	lambinât /lɑ̃.bi.na/	lambinassions /lɑ̃.bi.na.sjɔ̃/	lambinassiez /lɑ̃.bi.na.sje/	lambinassent /lɑ̃.bi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lambine /lɑ̃.bin/	—	lambinons /lɑ̃.bi.nɔ̃/	lambinez /lɑ̃.bi.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).

Further reading

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