seriner

French

Etymology

From serin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.ʁi.ne/

Verb

seriner

1. (transitive) to drum something into someone

Conjugation

Conjugation of seriner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	seriner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	serinant /sə.ʁi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		seriné /sə.ʁi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	serine /sə.ʁin/	serines /sə.ʁin/	serine /sə.ʁin/	serinons /sə.ʁi.nɔ̃/	serinez /sə.ʁi.ne/	serinent /sə.ʁin/
	imperfect	serinais /sə.ʁi.nɛ/	serinais /sə.ʁi.nɛ/	serinait /sə.ʁi.nɛ/	serinions /sə.ʁi.njɔ̃/	seriniez /sə.ʁi.nje/	serinaient /sə.ʁi.nɛ/
	past historic2	serinai /sə.ʁi.ne/	serinas /sə.ʁi.na/	serina /sə.ʁi.na/	serinâmes /sə.ʁi.nam/	serinâtes /sə.ʁi.nat/	serinèrent /sə.ʁi.nɛʁ/
	future	serinerai /sə.ʁin.ʁe/	serineras /sə.ʁin.ʁa/	serinera /sə.ʁin.ʁa/	serinerons /sə.ʁin.ʁɔ̃/	serinerez /sə.ʁin.ʁe/	serineront /sə.ʁin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	serinerais /sə.ʁin.ʁɛ/	serinerais /sə.ʁin.ʁɛ/	serinerait /sə.ʁin.ʁɛ/	serinerions /sə.ʁi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	serineriez /sə.ʁi.nə.ʁje/	serineraient /sə.ʁin.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	serine /sə.ʁin/	serines /sə.ʁin/	serine /sə.ʁin/	serinions /sə.ʁi.njɔ̃/	seriniez /sə.ʁi.nje/	serinent /sə.ʁin/
	imperfect2	serinasse /sə.ʁi.nas/	serinasses /sə.ʁi.nas/	serinât /sə.ʁi.na/	serinassions /sə.ʁi.na.sjɔ̃/	serinassiez /sə.ʁi.na.sje/	serinassent /sə.ʁi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	serine /sə.ʁin/	—	serinons /sə.ʁi.nɔ̃/	serinez /sə.ʁi.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

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