pieuter
French
Etymology
From pieu (“bed (slang)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pjø.te/
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Verb
pieuter
- (slang, intransitive) to sleep (in bed)
- Depuis que je me suis fait virer par mes vieux, je pieute chez ma copine.
- Since I got kicked out by my folks, I crash at my girlfriend's place.
- (slang, reflexive) to go to bed; to crash out, hit the hay
- Bonne nuit à tous, je vais me pieuter !
- Goodnight everyone, I'm going to hit the hay!
Conjugation
Conjugation of pieuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pieuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pieutant /pjø.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pieuté /pjø.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pieute /pjøt/ | pieutes /pjøt/ | pieute /pjøt/ | pieutons /pjø.tɔ̃/ | pieutez /pjø.te/ | pieutent /pjøt/ |
| imperfect | pieutais /pjø.tɛ/ | pieutais /pjø.tɛ/ | pieutait /pjø.tɛ/ | pieutions /pjø.tjɔ̃/ | pieutiez /pjø.tje/ | pieutaient /pjø.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pieutai /pjø.te/ | pieutas /pjø.ta/ | pieuta /pjø.ta/ | pieutâmes /pjø.tam/ | pieutâtes /pjø.tat/ | pieutèrent /pjø.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | pieuterai /pjø.tʁe/ | pieuteras /pjø.tʁa/ | pieutera /pjø.tʁa/ | pieuterons /pjø.tʁɔ̃/ | pieuterez /pjø.tʁe/ | pieuteront /pjø.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pieuterais /pjø.tʁɛ/ | pieuterais /pjø.tʁɛ/ | pieuterait /pjø.tʁɛ/ | pieuterions /pjø.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pieuteriez /pjø.tə.ʁje/ | pieuteraient /pjø.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | pieute /pjøt/ | pieutes /pjøt/ | pieute /pjøt/ | pieutions /pjø.tjɔ̃/ | pieutiez /pjø.tje/ | pieutent /pjøt/ |
| imperfect2 | pieutasse /pjø.tas/ | pieutasses /pjø.tas/ | pieutât /pjø.ta/ | pieutassions /pjø.ta.sjɔ̃/ | pieutassiez /pjø.ta.sje/ | pieutassent /pjø.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pieute /pjøt/ | — | pieutons /pjø.tɔ̃/ | pieutez /pjø.te/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- pieu
Further reading
- “pieuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.