dandiné
French, verb
dandiné is spelled D-A-N-D-I-N-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dandiné is a French verb meaning “past participle of dandiner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, dandine is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does dandiné mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of dandiner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tige en métal servant à agiter le vin pendant le collage. 2. Variante de dandinette, méthode de pêche à la ligne qui consiste à animer un leurre de mouvements verticaux répétitifs.
adjective: 1. Qui se déplace en se dandinant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dandiné
- dandinée feminine
- dandinés masculine plural
- dandinées feminine plural
- dandines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is dandiné in French?
dandiné appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).