dodeliner

French

Etymology

From dodiner.

Pronunciation

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Verb

dodeliner

1. (transitive) to cradle, rock (e.g. a baby, in one's arms)
2. (transitive) to sway, shake (e.g. a body part)

   dodeliner de la tête ― to nod/shake one's head

Conjugation

Conjugation of dodeliner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dodeliner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dodelinant /dɔ.dli.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dodeliné /dɔ.dli.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dodeline /dɔ.dlin/	dodelines /dɔ.dlin/	dodeline /dɔ.dlin/	dodelinons /dɔ.dli.nɔ̃/	dodelinez /dɔ.dli.ne/	dodelinent /dɔ.dlin/
	imperfect	dodelinais /dɔ.dli.nɛ/	dodelinais /dɔ.dli.nɛ/	dodelinait /dɔ.dli.nɛ/	dodelinions /dɔ.dli.njɔ̃/	dodeliniez /dɔ.dli.nje/	dodelinaient /dɔ.dli.nɛ/
	past historic2	dodelinai /dɔ.dli.ne/	dodelinas /dɔ.dli.na/	dodelina /dɔ.dli.na/	dodelinâmes /dɔ.dli.nam/	dodelinâtes /dɔ.dli.nat/	dodelinèrent /dɔ.dli.nɛʁ/
	future	dodelinerai /dɔ.dlin.ʁe/	dodelineras /dɔ.dlin.ʁa/	dodelinera /dɔ.dlin.ʁa/	dodelinerons /dɔ.dlin.ʁɔ̃/	dodelinerez /dɔ.dlin.ʁe/	dodelineront /dɔ.dlin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dodelinerais /dɔ.dlin.ʁɛ/	dodelinerais /dɔ.dlin.ʁɛ/	dodelinerait /dɔ.dlin.ʁɛ/	dodelinerions /dɔ.dli.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	dodelineriez /dɔ.dli.nə.ʁje/	dodelineraient /dɔ.dlin.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	dodeline /dɔ.dlin/	dodelines /dɔ.dlin/	dodeline /dɔ.dlin/	dodelinions /dɔ.dli.njɔ̃/	dodeliniez /dɔ.dli.nje/	dodelinent /dɔ.dlin/
	imperfect2	dodelinasse /dɔ.dli.nas/	dodelinasses /dɔ.dli.nas/	dodelinât /dɔ.dli.na/	dodelinassions /dɔ.dli.na.sjɔ̃/	dodelinassiez /dɔ.dli.na.sje/	dodelinassent /dɔ.dli.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		-	tu	-	nous	vous	-
simple		—	dodeline /dɔ.dlin/	—	dodelinons /dɔ.dli.nɔ̃/	dodelinez /dɔ.dli.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).

Derived terms

• dodelinement

Further reading

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