pleurnicher
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/
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Verb
pleurnicher
- to whine (to complain or protest in a childish manner or about trivial things)
Conjugation
Conjugation of pleurnicher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | pleurnicher | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pleurnichant /plœʁ.ni.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pleurniché /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/ | pleurniches /plœʁ.niʃ/ | pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/ | pleurnichons /plœʁ.ni.ʃɔ̃/ | pleurnichez /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/ | pleurnichent /plœʁ.niʃ/ |
imperfect | pleurnichais /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/ | pleurnichais /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/ | pleurnichait /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/ | pleurnichions /plœʁ.ni.ʃjɔ̃/ | pleurnichiez /plœʁ.ni.ʃje/ | pleurnichaient /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pleurnichai /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/ | pleurnichas /plœʁ.ni.ʃa/ | pleurnicha /plœʁ.ni.ʃa/ | pleurnichâmes /plœʁ.ni.ʃam/ | pleurnichâtes /plœʁ.ni.ʃat/ | pleurnichèrent /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛʁ/ | |
future | pleurnicherai /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁe/ | pleurnicheras /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁa/ | pleurnichera /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁa/ | pleurnicherons /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | pleurnicherez /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁe/ | pleurnicheront /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pleurnicherais /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɛ/ | pleurnicherais /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɛ/ | pleurnicherait /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɛ/ | pleurnicherions /plœʁ.ni.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pleurnicheriez /plœʁ.ni.ʃə.ʁje/ | pleurnicheraient /plœʁ.niʃ.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 | pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/ | pleurniches /plœʁ.niʃ/ | pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/ | pleurnichions /plœʁ.ni.ʃjɔ̃/ | pleurnichiez /plœʁ.ni.ʃje/ | pleurnichent /plœʁ.niʃ/ |
imperfect2 | pleurnichasse /plœʁ.ni.ʃas/ | pleurnichasses /plœʁ.ni.ʃas/ | pleurnichât /plœʁ.ni.ʃa/ | pleurnichassions /plœʁ.ni.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ | pleurnichassiez /plœʁ.ni.ʃa.sje/ | pleurnichassent /plœʁ.ni.ʃas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/ | — | pleurnichons /plœʁ.ni.ʃɔ̃/ | pleurnichez /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/ | — | |
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
- “pleurnicher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.