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