dîner
French, noun
dîner is spelled D-Î-N-E-R (5 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dîner is a French masculine noun meaning “dinner, evening meal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, diner is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of dîner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Repas du soir”.
What does dîner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dine
noun
- 1
masculinedinner, evening meal
- 2
Switzerlandmasculinelunch, midday meal
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of dîner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de dîner.
noun: 1. Restaurant sans prétention.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de dîner.
noun: 1. Monnaie andorrane de fantaisie.
verb: 1. Prendre le repas du soir. 2. , ou Prendre le repas de midi.
noun: 1. Repas du soir. 2. , ou Repas de midi.
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 dîner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- diné participle past
- dine first-person indicative present
- dines indicative present second-person
- dinons first-person indicative plural
- dinez indicative plural present
- dinent indicative plural present
- dinais first-person imperfect indicative
- dinait imperfect indicative singular
- dinions first-person imperfect indicative
- diniez imperfect indicative plural
- dinaient imperfect indicative plural
- dinai first-person historic indicative
- dinas historic indicative past
- dina historic indicative past
- dinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dîner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dîner in French?
dîner appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).