pistonner
French
Etymology
From piston + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pis.tɔ.ne/
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Verb
pistonner
- (transitive, informal) to put in a good word for somebody, to pull strings for somebody (apply influence)
- S'il ne m'avait pas pistonné, je n'aurais jamais obtenu ce job.
Conjugation
Conjugation of pistonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pistonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pistonnant /pis.tɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pistonné /pis.tɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pistonne /pis.tɔn/ | pistonnes /pis.tɔn/ | pistonne /pis.tɔn/ | pistonnons /pis.tɔ.nɔ̃/ | pistonnez /pis.tɔ.ne/ | pistonnent /pis.tɔn/ |
| imperfect | pistonnais /pis.tɔ.nɛ/ | pistonnais /pis.tɔ.nɛ/ | pistonnait /pis.tɔ.nɛ/ | pistonnions /pis.tɔ.njɔ̃/ | pistonniez /pis.tɔ.nje/ | pistonnaient /pis.tɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pistonnai /pis.tɔ.ne/ | pistonnas /pis.tɔ.na/ | pistonna /pis.tɔ.na/ | pistonnâmes /pis.tɔ.nam/ | pistonnâtes /pis.tɔ.nat/ | pistonnèrent /pis.tɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | pistonnerai /pis.tɔn.ʁe/ | pistonneras /pis.tɔn.ʁa/ | pistonnera /pis.tɔn.ʁa/ | pistonnerons /pis.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | pistonnerez /pis.tɔn.ʁe/ | pistonneront /pis.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pistonnerais /pis.tɔn.ʁɛ/ | pistonnerais /pis.tɔn.ʁɛ/ | pistonnerait /pis.tɔn.ʁɛ/ | pistonnerions /pis.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pistonneriez /pis.tɔ.nə.ʁje/ | pistonneraient /pis.tɔn.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 | pistonne /pis.tɔn/ | pistonnes /pis.tɔn/ | pistonne /pis.tɔn/ | pistonnions /pis.tɔ.njɔ̃/ | pistonniez /pis.tɔ.nje/ | pistonnent /pis.tɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | pistonnasse /pis.tɔ.nas/ | pistonnasses /pis.tɔ.nas/ | pistonnât /pis.tɔ.na/ | pistonnassions /pis.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | pistonnassiez /pis.tɔ.na.sje/ | pistonnassent /pis.tɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pistonne /pis.tɔn/ | — | pistonnons /pis.tɔ.nɔ̃/ | pistonnez /pis.tɔ.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
- “pistonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.