pogner
French
Etymology
From pogne, poing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.ɲe/
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Verb
pogner
- (Quebec, Louisiana, transitive) to catch
- Sauve-toi, il va te pogner!
- Run, he's going to catch you!
- J’ai pogné un rhume.
- I caught a cold.
- (Quebec, Louisiana, transitive) to grab, to grasp
- Il a pogné ses clés puis il est sorti.
- He grabbed his keys and then he left.
- Il l’a pognée par les cheveux.
- He grasped it by the hair.
- (Quebec, Louisiana, slang, figuratively) to seize
- L’envie m’a pogné de l’embrasser.
- I was seized by the desire to kiss her.
- (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal verb) to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion)
- Voyons, qu’est-ce qui te pogne tout d’un coup?
- Hey, what's gotten into you all of a sudden?
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding)
- Il s'est fait pogner par son patron.
- He was found out by his boss.
- (Quebec, transitive) to collide, to hit
- Je roulais à une vitesse normale, mais j’ai pogné une bosse et je ne m’y attendais pas.
- I was driving at a regular speed, but I hit a bump and I wasn't expecting it.
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to receive
- Il a pogné trois ans de prison.
- He got three years of jail time.
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke)
- La pognes-tu?
- Do you get it?
- J’la pogne pas.
- I don't understand.
- (Quebec, informal, intransitive) to catch on or become popular, to succeed
- Ma musique pogne pas.
- My music isn't catching on.
- Notre site Internet pogne de plus en plus.
- Our Web site is getting more and more popular.
- (Quebec, slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships
- J’ai beau aller dans les bars, je pogne pas pantoute.
- Try as I might at bars, I can't get any.
- Ce gars-là pogne vraiment, toutes les filles sont à ses pieds.
- That guy's a real lady-killer! All the girls are at his feet.
- (Quebec, informal, reflexive) to take or acquire something (for oneself)
- C’est gratuit! Pogne-toi-z-en une couple!
- It's free! Take a few!
- C’est tellement bon, cet album-là, je vais m’en pogner un c’est sûr!
- This album's really good! I'm definitely going to get it for myself.
- (Quebec, informal) to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively)
- Il s’est pogné le doigt dans la machine.
- He got his finger stuck in the machine.
- J’ai peur de me pogner les cheveux dans le filtreur de la piscine.
- I'm afraid of getting my hair stuck in the pool filtration system.
- (Quebec, slang) to argue, to quarrel (with someone), to butt heads (used either reflexively or with subject)
- C’est la troisième fois qu’il se pogne avec le prof cette semaine.
- That's the third time this week that he's beefed with the professor.
- Quand on se pogne avec quelqu’un à tout bout de champ, je pense que c’est mieux de prendre ses distances.
- When you're butting heads with someone and there's no end in sight, I think it's better to keep your distance.
- (Quebec, slang) to make out, or to make love or have sex (used reflexively)
- Depuis deux semaines, ma sœur passe ses soirées à se pogner avec son amoureux.
- For the past two weeks, my sister's been spending her evenings having sex with her lover.
- (Louisiana, slang, transitive) to fool
Conjugation
Conjugation of pogner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pogner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pognant /pɔ.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pogné /pɔ.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pogne /pɔɲ/ | pognes /pɔɲ/ | pogne /pɔɲ/ | pognons /pɔ.ɲɔ̃/ | pognez /pɔ.ɲe/ | pognent /pɔɲ/ |
| imperfect | pognais /pɔ.ɲɛ/ | pognais /pɔ.ɲɛ/ | pognait /pɔ.ɲɛ/ | pognions /pɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ | pogniez /pɔ.ɲje/ | pognaient /pɔ.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pognai /pɔ.ɲe/ | pognas /pɔ.ɲa/ | pogna /pɔ.ɲa/ | pognâmes /pɔ.ɲam/ | pognâtes /pɔ.ɲat/ | pognèrent /pɔ.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | pognerai /pɔ.ɲə.ʁe/ | pogneras /pɔ.ɲə.ʁa/ | pognera /pɔ.ɲə.ʁa/ | pognerons /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | pognerez /pɔ.ɲə.ʁe/ | pogneront /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pognerais /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | pognerais /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | pognerait /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | pognerions /pɔ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pogneriez /pɔ.ɲə.ʁje/ | pogneraient /pɔ.ɲə.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 | pogne /pɔɲ/ | pognes /pɔɲ/ | pogne /pɔɲ/ | pognions /pɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ | pogniez /pɔ.ɲje/ | pognent /pɔɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | pognasse /pɔ.ɲas/ | pognasses /pɔ.ɲas/ | pognât /pɔ.ɲa/ | pognassions /pɔ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ | pognassiez /pɔ.ɲa.sje/ | pognassent /pɔ.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pogne /pɔɲ/ | — | pognons /pɔ.ɲɔ̃/ | pognez /pɔ.ɲe/ | — | |
| 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
- “pogner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- pogner in la Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophone