chiner

French

Etymology

In the dye sense from Chine +‎ -er, the others clipping of échiner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ne/

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Verb

chiner

1. to dye and interweave fabrics into
2. to take the piss out of
3. to look around, to lurk
   • 2021 July 2, 1PLIKÉ140 (lyrics and music), “Poison”‎^[1]:

     L’bigo, on l’met en sourdine juste avant d’aller chiner

     The celly, we put on the silencer just before going to lurk

Conjugation

Conjugation of chiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chinant /ʃi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chiné /ʃi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chine /ʃin/	chines /ʃin/	chine /ʃin/	chinons /ʃi.nɔ̃/	chinez /ʃi.ne/	chinent /ʃin/
	imperfect	chinais /ʃi.nɛ/	chinais /ʃi.nɛ/	chinait /ʃi.nɛ/	chinions /ʃi.njɔ̃/	chiniez /ʃi.nje/	chinaient /ʃi.nɛ/
	past historic2	chinai /ʃi.ne/	chinas /ʃi.na/	china /ʃi.na/	chinâmes /ʃi.nam/	chinâtes /ʃi.nat/	chinèrent /ʃi.nɛʁ/
	future	chinerai /ʃin.ʁe/	chineras /ʃin.ʁa/	chinera /ʃin.ʁa/	chinerons /ʃin.ʁɔ̃/	chinerez /ʃin.ʁe/	chineront /ʃin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chinerais /ʃin.ʁɛ/	chinerais /ʃin.ʁɛ/	chinerait /ʃin.ʁɛ/	chinerions /ʃi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	chineriez /ʃi.nə.ʁje/	chineraient /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	chine /ʃin/	chines /ʃin/	chine /ʃin/	chinions /ʃi.njɔ̃/	chiniez /ʃi.nje/	chinent /ʃin/
	imperfect2	chinasse /ʃi.nas/	chinasses /ʃi.nas/	chinât /ʃi.na/	chinassions /ʃi.na.sjɔ̃/	chinassiez /ʃi.na.sje/	chinassent /ʃi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chine /ʃin/	—	chinons /ʃi.nɔ̃/	chinez /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: 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

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

Anagrams

• nicher