piétiner
French
Etymology
From piéter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pje.ti.ne/
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Verb
piétiner
- (intransitive) to stomp (make loud sounds by stepping)
- (intransitive) to shuffle (move forwards with short steps and with difficulty)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to make no headway, to go into a dead end
- (transitive) to trample (underfoot)
Conjugation
Conjugation of piétiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | piétiner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | piétinant /pje.ti.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | piétiné /pje.ti.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | piétine /pje.tin/ | piétines /pje.tin/ | piétine /pje.tin/ | piétinons /pje.ti.nɔ̃/ | piétinez /pje.ti.ne/ | piétinent /pje.tin/ |
imperfect | piétinais /pje.ti.nɛ/ | piétinais /pje.ti.nɛ/ | piétinait /pje.ti.nɛ/ | piétinions /pje.ti.njɔ̃/ | piétiniez /pje.ti.nje/ | piétinaient /pje.ti.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | piétinai /pje.ti.ne/ | piétinas /pje.ti.na/ | piétina /pje.ti.na/ | piétinâmes /pje.ti.nam/ | piétinâtes /pje.ti.nat/ | piétinèrent /pje.ti.nɛʁ/ | |
future | piétinerai /pje.tin.ʁe/ | piétineras /pje.tin.ʁa/ | piétinera /pje.tin.ʁa/ | piétinerons /pje.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | piétinerez /pje.tin.ʁe/ | piétineront /pje.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | piétinerais /pje.tin.ʁɛ/ | piétinerais /pje.tin.ʁɛ/ | piétinerait /pje.tin.ʁɛ/ | piétinerions /pje.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | piétineriez /pje.ti.nə.ʁje/ | piétineraient /pje.tin.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 | piétine /pje.tin/ | piétines /pje.tin/ | piétine /pje.tin/ | piétinions /pje.ti.njɔ̃/ | piétiniez /pje.ti.nje/ | piétinent /pje.tin/ |
imperfect2 | piétinasse /pje.ti.nas/ | piétinasses /pje.ti.nas/ | piétinât /pje.ti.na/ | piétinassions /pje.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ | piétinassiez /pje.ti.na.sje/ | piétinassent /pje.ti.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | piétine /pje.tin/ | — | piétinons /pje.ti.nɔ̃/ | piétinez /pje.ti.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). |
Derived terms
- piétinement m (noun)
Further reading
- “piétiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.