traîner
Meanings
Verb
1. to pull, drag (transitive)
2. to bring (something bad) (transitive, with après)
3. to suffer (from), to linger (transitive or intransitive, intransitive, transitive)
4. to drag along (transitive)
5. to lag behind, to trail (intransitive)
6. to lie about, sit around; to hang around (intransitive, of people or objects)
7. to drag on (intransitive)
8. to drag oneself, crawl along (reflexive)
Examples84
Dans cette pièce l’action traîne.
The action drags on in this play.
Il m’a traîné longtemps avant de me payer.
He dragged me along for a long time before paying me.
traîner un homme en prison
to drag a man to prison
traîner une table
to drag a table
Ces papiers ont traîné longtemps dans mon cabinet.
These papers have been lying around for a long time in my office.
traîner une chaise
to drag a chair