dodiner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

dodiner

1. to shake, swing, rock (gently)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dodiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dodiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dodinant /dɔ.di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dodiné /dɔ.di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dodine /dɔ.din/	dodines /dɔ.din/	dodine /dɔ.din/	dodinons /dɔ.di.nɔ̃/	dodinez /dɔ.di.ne/	dodinent /dɔ.din/
	imperfect	dodinais /dɔ.di.nɛ/	dodinais /dɔ.di.nɛ/	dodinait /dɔ.di.nɛ/	dodinions /dɔ.di.njɔ̃/	dodiniez /dɔ.di.nje/	dodinaient /dɔ.di.nɛ/
	past historic2	dodinai /dɔ.di.ne/	dodinas /dɔ.di.na/	dodina /dɔ.di.na/	dodinâmes /dɔ.di.nam/	dodinâtes /dɔ.di.nat/	dodinèrent /dɔ.di.nɛʁ/
	future	dodinerai /dɔ.din.ʁe/	dodineras /dɔ.din.ʁa/	dodinera /dɔ.din.ʁa/	dodinerons /dɔ.din.ʁɔ̃/	dodinerez /dɔ.din.ʁe/	dodineront /dɔ.din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dodinerais /dɔ.din.ʁɛ/	dodinerais /dɔ.din.ʁɛ/	dodinerait /dɔ.din.ʁɛ/	dodinerions /dɔ.di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	dodineriez /dɔ.di.nə.ʁje/	dodineraient /dɔ.din.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	dodine /dɔ.din/	dodines /dɔ.din/	dodine /dɔ.din/	dodinions /dɔ.di.njɔ̃/	dodiniez /dɔ.di.nje/	dodinent /dɔ.din/
	imperfect2	dodinasse /dɔ.di.nas/	dodinasses /dɔ.di.nas/	dodinât /dɔ.di.na/	dodinassions /dɔ.di.na.sjɔ̃/	dodinassiez /dɔ.di.na.sje/	dodinassent /dɔ.di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dodine /dɔ.din/	—	dodinons /dɔ.di.nɔ̃/	dodinez /dɔ.di.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

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