cuisiner/kɥi.zin/
verb · A2 · Frequency 1868
verb
Meanings
to cook; to prepare food
Common verb for cooking or preparing food; can take a direct object (cuisiner un plat / un repas) or be used more generally (Elle aime cuisiner.). Used in both everyday home and professional contexts.
to grill; to interrogate
Informal, figurative use meaning to bombard someone with questions or to interrogate them intensely, often with a person as object, e.g. On l’a longuement cuisiné pour savoir la vérité.
Examples
Il cuisine chaque soir pour sa famille.
He cooks for his family every evening.
Elle cuisine les légumes avec très peu d'huile.
She cooks the vegetables with very little oil.
La journaliste cuisine le ministre sur cette affaire délicate.
The journalist grills the minister about this delicate matter.
verb
Meanings
to cook; to prepare food
Common verb for cooking or preparing food; can take a direct object (cuisiner un plat / un repas) or be used more generally (Elle aime cuisiner.). Used in both everyday home and professional contexts.
to grill; to interrogate
Informal, figurative use meaning to bombard someone with questions or to interrogate them intensely, often with a person as object, e.g. On l’a longuement cuisiné pour savoir la vérité.
Examples
J'aime cuisiner pour mes amis le week-end.
I like cooking for my friends at the weekend.
Pour économiser, ils ont appris à cuisiner avec des produits de saison.
To save money, they learned to cook with seasonal ingredients.
L'inspecteur a décidé de cuisiner le suspect pendant plusieurs heures.
The investigator decided to grill the suspect for several hours.
Collocations
- cuisiner un platto cook a dish
- cuisiner un suspectto grill a suspect
Common mistakes
Je ne cuisine le pas.
Je ne le cuisine pas.
With cuisiner, the direct-object pronoun le comes before the conjugated verb, between ne and the verb, not after the negative word pas.
Related words
synonympréparerto prepare
synonymcuireto cook (intransitive)
verb
Meanings
to cook; to prepare food
Common verb for cooking or preparing food; can take a direct object (cuisiner un plat / un repas) or be used more generally (Elle aime cuisiner.). Used in both everyday home and professional contexts.
to grill; to interrogate
Informal, figurative use meaning to bombard someone with questions or to interrogate them intensely, often with a person as object, e.g. On l’a longuement cuisiné pour savoir la vérité.
Examples
Cuisinant pour toute la famille, elle a préparé un grand plat de pâtes.
Cooking for the whole family, she prepared a large dish of pasta.
Il a pris une photo de sa mère cuisinant dans la cuisine.
He took a photo of his mother cooking in the kitchen.
Cuisinant le suspect depuis une heure, les policiers ont enfin obtenu des aveux.
After grilling the suspect for an hour, the police finally obtained a confession.
verb
Meanings
to cook; to prepare food
Common verb for cooking or preparing food; can take a direct object (cuisiner un plat / un repas) or be used more generally (Elle aime cuisiner.). Used in both everyday home and professional contexts.
to grill; to interrogate
Informal, figurative use meaning to bombard someone with questions or to interrogate them intensely, often with a person as object, e.g. On l’a longuement cuisiné pour savoir la vérité.
Examples
Le poisson a été cuisiné avec des herbes fraîches.
The fish was cooked with fresh herbs.
Le repas cuisiné par mon frère attend sur la table.
The meal cooked by my brother is waiting on the table.
Le suspect a été cuisiné pendant plusieurs heures par les enquêteurs.
The suspect was grilled by the investigators for several hours.
verb
Meanings
to cook; to prepare food
Common verb for cooking or preparing food; can take a direct object (cuisiner un plat / un repas) or be used more generally (Elle aime cuisiner.). Used in both everyday home and professional contexts.
to grill; to interrogate
Informal, figurative use meaning to bombard someone with questions or to interrogate them intensely, often with a person as object, e.g. On l’a longuement cuisiné pour savoir la vérité.
Examples
Tu cuisines souvent des légumes frais pour le dîner.
You often cook fresh vegetables for dinner.
Pourquoi tu cuisines ce suspect depuis une heure ?
Why have you been grilling this suspect for an hour?
Le dimanche, tu cuisines avec tes enfants dans la petite cuisine.
On Sundays, you cook with your children in the small kitchen.