pateliner

French

Etymology

From patelin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.tə.li.ne/

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Verb

pateliner (formal)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to finesse, to be as if in one’s own field (with), to handle oneself / to handle deftly, to be slippery as an eel (towards)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pateliner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pateliner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	patelinant /pa.tli.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pateliné /pa.tli.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pateline /pa.tlin/	patelines /pa.tlin/	pateline /pa.tlin/	patelinons /pa.tli.nɔ̃/	patelinez /pa.tli.ne/	patelinent /pa.tlin/
	imperfect	patelinais /pa.tli.nɛ/	patelinais /pa.tli.nɛ/	patelinait /pa.tli.nɛ/	patelinions /pa.tli.njɔ̃/	pateliniez /pa.tli.nje/	patelinaient /pa.tli.nɛ/
	past historic2	patelinai /pa.tli.ne/	patelinas /pa.tli.na/	patelina /pa.tli.na/	patelinâmes /pa.tli.nam/	patelinâtes /pa.tli.nat/	patelinèrent /pa.tli.nɛʁ/
	future	patelinerai /pa.tlin.ʁe/	patelineras /pa.tlin.ʁa/	patelinera /pa.tlin.ʁa/	patelinerons /pa.tlin.ʁɔ̃/	patelinerez /pa.tlin.ʁe/	patelineront /pa.tlin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	patelinerais /pa.tlin.ʁɛ/	patelinerais /pa.tlin.ʁɛ/	patelinerait /pa.tlin.ʁɛ/	patelinerions /pa.tli.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	patelineriez /pa.tli.nə.ʁje/	patelineraient /pa.tlin.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	pateline /pa.tlin/	patelines /pa.tlin/	pateline /pa.tlin/	patelinions /pa.tli.njɔ̃/	pateliniez /pa.tli.nje/	patelinent /pa.tlin/
	imperfect2	patelinasse /pa.tli.nas/	patelinasses /pa.tli.nas/	patelinât /pa.tli.na/	patelinassions /pa.tli.na.sjɔ̃/	patelinassiez /pa.tli.na.sje/	patelinassent /pa.tli.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pateline /pa.tlin/	—	patelinons /pa.tli.nɔ̃/	patelinez /pa.tli.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

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