destiner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French destiner (12th c.), a borrowing from Latin dēstināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛs.ti.ne/

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Verb

destiner

1. to destine, to fate, to mean for

Conjugation

Conjugation of destiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	destiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	destinant /dɛs.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		destiné /dɛs.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	destine /dɛs.tin/	destines /dɛs.tin/	destine /dɛs.tin/	destinons /dɛs.ti.nɔ̃/	destinez /dɛs.ti.ne/	destinent /dɛs.tin/
	imperfect	destinais /dɛs.ti.nɛ/	destinais /dɛs.ti.nɛ/	destinait /dɛs.ti.nɛ/	destinions /dɛs.ti.njɔ̃/	destiniez /dɛs.ti.nje/	destinaient /dɛs.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	destinai /dɛs.ti.ne/	destinas /dɛs.ti.na/	destina /dɛs.ti.na/	destinâmes /dɛs.ti.nam/	destinâtes /dɛs.ti.nat/	destinèrent /dɛs.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	destinerai /dɛs.tin.ʁe/	destineras /dɛs.tin.ʁa/	destinera /dɛs.tin.ʁa/	destinerons /dɛs.tin.ʁɔ̃/	destinerez /dɛs.tin.ʁe/	destineront /dɛs.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	destinerais /dɛs.tin.ʁɛ/	destinerais /dɛs.tin.ʁɛ/	destinerait /dɛs.tin.ʁɛ/	destinerions /dɛs.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	destineriez /dɛs.ti.nə.ʁje/	destineraient /dɛs.tin.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	destine /dɛs.tin/	destines /dɛs.tin/	destine /dɛs.tin/	destinions /dɛs.ti.njɔ̃/	destiniez /dɛs.ti.nje/	destinent /dɛs.tin/
	imperfect2	destinasse /dɛs.ti.nas/	destinasses /dɛs.ti.nas/	destinât /dɛs.ti.na/	destinassions /dɛs.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	destinassiez /dɛs.ti.na.sje/	destinassent /dɛs.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	destine /dɛs.tin/	—	destinons /dɛs.ti.nɔ̃/	destinez /dɛs.ti.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).

Related terms

• destin
• destinataire
• destination
• destinée

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• désirent, redisent, rendîtes, résident

Ladin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēstinō, dēstināre.

Verb

destiner

1. to mean, intend

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of destiner (first conjugation)

infinitive	destiner, destiné
auxiliary verb		avei	gerund		destinan
past participle		destiné
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	ie	tu	el / ela	nos	vos	ei / eles
present	destine, destineie	destines, destineies	destina, destineia, destinea	destinon	destineis	destina, destineia
imperfect	destinove	destinoves	destinova	destinovan	destinovais	destinova
future	destinaré	destinaras	destinarà	destinaron	destinareis	destinarà
subjunctive	che ie	che tu	che el / ela	che nos	che vos	che ei / eles
present	destine, destineie	destines, destineies	destine, destineie	destinon	destineis	destine
imperfect	destinasse	destinasses	destinassa	destinassan	destinassais	destinassa
imperative	–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
	—	destina, destineia	—	destinon	destinede	—

Latin

Verb

dēstiner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēstinō