chlinguer
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃlɛ̃.ɡe/
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Verb
chlinguer
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.
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