chlinguer

French

Alternative forms

• schlinguer

Etymology

Perhaps from German schlagen or schlingen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃlɛ̃.ɡe/

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Verb

chlinguer

1. (intransitive, informal) to stink, to reek

   Synonyms: schmouter, puer

   Ça chlingue ici, faut ouvrir les fenêtres les mecs.

   It stinks here, we should open some windows, guys.

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard:

     Et quand le soleil se couchera a l’horizon, je le verrai. Je le vois déjà sur une reproduction d’un tableau de Gauguin, du fond de ma cellule chlinguant la pisse.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015, “Urbanisme”, in NQNT 2, performed by Vald:

     Maintenant, c’est glauque, y’a que des halls, des halls avec des jeunes / Qui n’font rien mais qui dégradent et puis qui boivent et puis qui chlinguent

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of chlinguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chlinguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chlinguant /klɛ̃.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chlingué /klɛ̃.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chlingue /klɛ̃ɡ/	chlingues /klɛ̃ɡ/	chlingue /klɛ̃ɡ/	chlinguons /klɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	chlinguez /klɛ̃.ɡe/	chlinguent /klɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect	chlinguais /klɛ̃.ɡɛ/	chlinguais /klɛ̃.ɡɛ/	chlinguait /klɛ̃.ɡɛ/	chlinguions /klɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	chlinguiez /klɛ̃.ɡje/	chlinguaient /klɛ̃.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	chlinguai /klɛ̃.ɡe/	chlinguas /klɛ̃.ɡa/	chlingua /klɛ̃.ɡa/	chlinguâmes /klɛ̃.ɡam/	chlinguâtes /klɛ̃.ɡat/	chlinguèrent /klɛ̃.ɡɛʁ/
	future	chlinguerai /klɛ̃.ɡʁe/	chlingueras /klɛ̃.ɡʁa/	chlinguera /klɛ̃.ɡʁa/	chlinguerons /klɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/	chlinguerez /klɛ̃.ɡʁe/	chlingueront /klɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chlinguerais /klɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	chlinguerais /klɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	chlinguerait /klɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	chlinguerions /klɛ̃.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	chlingueriez /klɛ̃.ɡə.ʁje/	chlingueraient /klɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/
(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	chlingue /klɛ̃ɡ/	chlingues /klɛ̃ɡ/	chlingue /klɛ̃ɡ/	chlinguions /klɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	chlinguiez /klɛ̃.ɡje/	chlinguent /klɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect2	chlinguasse /klɛ̃.ɡas/	chlinguasses /klɛ̃.ɡas/	chlinguât /klɛ̃.ɡa/	chlinguassions /klɛ̃.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	chlinguassiez /klɛ̃.ɡa.sje/	chlinguassent /klɛ̃.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chlingue /klɛ̃ɡ/	—	chlinguons /klɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	chlinguez /klɛ̃.ɡe/	—
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

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