piffer
French
Etymology
pif (“nose”) + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.fe/
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Verb
piffer
- (transitive, informal, normally used in the negative) to stand, put up with
Conjugation
Conjugation of piffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | piffer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | piffant /pi.fɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | piffé /pi.fe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | piffe /pif/ | piffes /pif/ | piffe /pif/ | piffons /pi.fɔ̃/ | piffez /pi.fe/ | piffent /pif/ |
imperfect | piffais /pi.fɛ/ | piffais /pi.fɛ/ | piffait /pi.fɛ/ | piffions /pi.fjɔ̃/ | piffiez /pi.fje/ | piffaient /pi.fɛ/ | |
past historic2 | piffai /pi.fe/ | piffas /pi.fa/ | piffa /pi.fa/ | piffâmes /pi.fam/ | piffâtes /pi.fat/ | piffèrent /pi.fɛʁ/ | |
future | pifferai /pi.fʁe/ | pifferas /pi.fʁa/ | piffera /pi.fʁa/ | pifferons /pi.fʁɔ̃/ | pifferez /pi.fʁe/ | pifferont /pi.fʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pifferais /pi.fʁɛ/ | pifferais /pi.fʁɛ/ | pifferait /pi.fʁɛ/ | pifferions /pi.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pifferiez /pi.fə.ʁje/ | pifferaient /pi.fʁɛ/ | |
(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 | piffe /pif/ | piffes /pif/ | piffe /pif/ | piffions /pi.fjɔ̃/ | piffiez /pi.fje/ | piffent /pif/ |
imperfect2 | piffasse /pi.fas/ | piffasses /pi.fas/ | piffât /pi.fa/ | piffassions /pi.fa.sjɔ̃/ | piffassiez /pi.fa.sje/ | piffassent /pi.fas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | piffe /pif/ | — | piffons /pi.fɔ̃/ | piffez /pi.fe/ | — | |
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
- “piffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.