papillonner
French
Etymology
papillon + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/
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Verb
papillonner
- (intransitive) to flit (from one to another)
Conjugation
Conjugation of papillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | papillonner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | papillonnant /pa.pi.jɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | papillonné /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/ | papillonnes /pa.pi.jɔn/ | papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/ | papillonnons /pa.pi.jɔ.nɔ̃/ | papillonnez /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/ | papillonnent /pa.pi.jɔn/ |
imperfect | papillonnais /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/ | papillonnais /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/ | papillonnait /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/ | papillonnions /pa.pi.jɔ.njɔ̃/ | papillonniez /pa.pi.jɔ.nje/ | papillonnaient /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | papillonnai /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/ | papillonnas /pa.pi.jɔ.na/ | papillonna /pa.pi.jɔ.na/ | papillonnâmes /pa.pi.jɔ.nam/ | papillonnâtes /pa.pi.jɔ.nat/ | papillonnèrent /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
future | papillonnerai /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁe/ | papillonneras /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁa/ | papillonnera /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁa/ | papillonnerons /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | papillonnerez /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁe/ | papillonneront /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | papillonnerais /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | papillonnerais /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | papillonnerait /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | papillonnerions /pa.pi.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | papillonneriez /pa.pi.jɔ.nə.ʁje/ | papillonneraient /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/ | papillonnes /pa.pi.jɔn/ | papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/ | papillonnions /pa.pi.jɔ.njɔ̃/ | papillonniez /pa.pi.jɔ.nje/ | papillonnent /pa.pi.jɔn/ |
imperfect2 | papillonnasse /pa.pi.jɔ.nas/ | papillonnasses /pa.pi.jɔ.nas/ | papillonnât /pa.pi.jɔ.na/ | papillonnassions /pa.pi.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | papillonnassiez /pa.pi.jɔ.na.sje/ | papillonnassent /pa.pi.jɔ.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/ | — | papillonnons /pa.pi.jɔ.nɔ̃/ | papillonnez /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “papillonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.