échiner
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
échiner
- to break someone's back
- (Louisiana) to wear out, to tire
- (reflexive, literally and figuratively) to break one's back
- (reflexive, Louisiana) to tire oneself out
Conjugation
Conjugation of échiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | échiner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | échinant /e.ʃi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | échiné /e.ʃi.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | échine /e.ʃin/ | échines /e.ʃin/ | échine /e.ʃin/ | échinons /e.ʃi.nɔ̃/ | échinez /e.ʃi.ne/ | échinent /e.ʃin/ |
imperfect | échinais /e.ʃi.nɛ/ | échinais /e.ʃi.nɛ/ | échinait /e.ʃi.nɛ/ | échinions /e.ʃi.njɔ̃/ | échiniez /e.ʃi.nje/ | échinaient /e.ʃi.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | échinai /e.ʃi.ne/ | échinas /e.ʃi.na/ | échina /e.ʃi.na/ | échinâmes /e.ʃi.nam/ | échinâtes /e.ʃi.nat/ | échinèrent /e.ʃi.nɛʁ/ | |
future | échinerai /e.ʃin.ʁe/ | échineras /e.ʃin.ʁa/ | échinera /e.ʃin.ʁa/ | échinerons /e.ʃin.ʁɔ̃/ | échinerez /e.ʃin.ʁe/ | échineront /e.ʃin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | échinerais /e.ʃin.ʁɛ/ | échinerais /e.ʃin.ʁɛ/ | échinerait /e.ʃin.ʁɛ/ | échinerions /e.ʃi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | échineriez /e.ʃi.nə.ʁje/ | échineraient /e.ʃin.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 | échine /e.ʃin/ | échines /e.ʃin/ | échine /e.ʃin/ | échinions /e.ʃi.njɔ̃/ | échiniez /e.ʃi.nje/ | échinent /e.ʃin/ |
imperfect2 | échinasse /e.ʃi.nas/ | échinasses /e.ʃi.nas/ | échinât /e.ʃi.na/ | échinassions /e.ʃi.na.sjɔ̃/ | échinassiez /e.ʃi.na.sje/ | échinassent /e.ʃi.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | échine /e.ʃin/ | — | échinons /e.ʃi.nɔ̃/ | échinez /e.ʃi.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
- “échiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.