cingler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.ɡle/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French cingler, from Old French singler, sigler, from Old Norse sigla (“to sail”), from Proto-Germanic *siglijaną.

Verb

cingler

1. to sail
2. to navigate

Conjugation

Conjugation of cingler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cingler
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cinglant /sɛ̃.ɡlɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		cinglé /sɛ̃.ɡle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingles /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cinglons /sɛ̃.ɡlɔ̃/	cinglez /sɛ̃.ɡle/	cinglent /sɛ̃ɡl/
	imperfect	cinglais /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/	cinglais /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/	cinglait /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/	cinglions /sɛ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃/	cingliez /sɛ̃.ɡli.je/	cinglaient /sɛ̃.ɡlɛ/
	past historic2	cinglai /sɛ̃.ɡle/	cinglas /sɛ̃.ɡla/	cingla /sɛ̃.ɡla/	cinglâmes /sɛ̃.ɡlam/	cinglâtes /sɛ̃.ɡlat/	cinglèrent /sɛ̃.ɡlɛʁ/
	future	cinglerai /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁe/	cingleras /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁa/	cinglera /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁa/	cinglerons /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/	cinglerez /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁe/	cingleront /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cinglerais /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	cinglerais /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	cinglerait /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	cinglerions /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁjɔ̃/	cingleriez /sɛ̃.ɡlə.ʁje/	cingleraient /sɛ̃.ɡlə.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	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingles /sɛ̃ɡl/	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	cinglions /sɛ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃/	cingliez /sɛ̃.ɡli.je/	cinglent /sɛ̃ɡl/
	imperfect2	cinglasse /sɛ̃.ɡlas/	cinglasses /sɛ̃.ɡlas/	cinglât /sɛ̃.ɡla/	cinglassions /sɛ̃.ɡla.sjɔ̃/	cinglassiez /sɛ̃.ɡla.sje/	cinglassent /sɛ̃.ɡlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cingle /sɛ̃ɡl/	—	cinglons /sɛ̃.ɡlɔ̃/	cinglez /sɛ̃.ɡle/	—
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).

Etymology 2

From Latin cingulum.

Verb

cingler

1. to hit; to strike; to knock

Derived terms

• cinglé (adjective)
• cingleur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cligner