dandiner
French, verb/dɑ̃.di.ne/
dandiner is spelled D-A-N-D-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dandiner is a French verb meaning “to waddle (about), to toddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire se balancer son corps soit par nonchalance, soit par manque de contenance”.
What does dandiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto waddle (about), to toddle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire se balancer son corps soit par nonchalance, soit par manque de contenance. 2. Pratiquer la pêche à la dandine ou dandinette.
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 dandiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dandinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dandiné participle past
- dandine first-person indicative present
- dandines indicative present second-person
- dandinons first-person indicative plural
- dandinez indicative plural present
- dandinent indicative plural present
- dandinais first-person imperfect indicative
- dandinait imperfect indicative singular
- dandinions first-person imperfect indicative
- dandiniez imperfect indicative plural
- dandinaient imperfect indicative plural
- dandinai first-person historic indicative
- dandinas historic indicative past
- dandina historic indicative past
- dandinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dandiner?
- /dɑ̃.di.ne/
- \dɑ̃.di.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dandiner in French?
dandiner 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).