poser
See also: pöser and Poser
English
Etymology
pose + -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊzɚ/
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Noun
poser (plural posers)
- (Britain) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
- Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
- 2008 July 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008:
- "My boyfriend, or I should say, ex-boyfriend, used to be all dark and brooding with long, black hair, but now?!" [...] "Um, I'm pretty sure uniforms don't work that way. I think your ex might just be a big poser." "A fact I would be blissfully unaware of if not for these damn uniforms!"
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Translations
a particularly difficult question or puzzle
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someone who asks a question or sets a problem
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someone who, or something which, poses; with their body in a fixed position
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poseur — see poseur
See also
- faker
- impostor
- pretentious
Anagrams
- OPers., Peros, Perso-, S'pore, Soper, Spero, opers, pores, preso, pro se, prose, reops, repos, ropes, soper, spore
French
Etymology
From Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin pausāre < Latin pausāre, present active infinitive of pausō, influenced in meaning by pōnō (especially its past participle positus). Compare Italian posare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.ze/
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Verb
poser
- (transitive) to stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody)
- (transitive) to ask (a question)
- J'ai quelques questions à lui poser.
- I have a few questions to ask him.
- Puis-je vous poser une question ?
- Can I ask you a question?
- (transitive) to land (a plane)
- (transitive) to lay, place
- (transitive) to install, fit
- (reflexive) to relax, settle
- Synonyms: reposer, rester
Conjugation
Conjugation of poser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | poser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | posant /po.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | posé /po.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pose /poz/ | poses /poz/ | pose /poz/ | posons /po.zɔ̃/ | posez /po.ze/ | posent /poz/ |
| imperfect | posais /po.zɛ/ | posais /po.zɛ/ | posait /po.zɛ/ | posions /po.zjɔ̃/ | posiez /po.zje/ | posaient /po.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | posai /po.ze/ | posas /po.za/ | posa /po.za/ | posâmes /po.zam/ | posâtes /po.zat/ | posèrent /po.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | poserai /poz.ʁe/ | poseras /poz.ʁa/ | posera /poz.ʁa/ | poserons /poz.ʁɔ̃/ | poserez /poz.ʁe/ | poseront /poz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | poserais /poz.ʁɛ/ | poserais /poz.ʁɛ/ | poserait /poz.ʁɛ/ | poserions /po.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | poseriez /po.zə.ʁje/ | poseraient /poz.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 | pose /poz/ | poses /poz/ | pose /poz/ | posions /po.zjɔ̃/ | posiez /po.zje/ | posent /poz/ |
| imperfect2 | posasse /po.zas/ | posasses /po.zas/ | posât /po.za/ | posassions /po.za.sjɔ̃/ | posassiez /po.za.sje/ | posassent /po.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pose /poz/ | — | posons /po.zɔ̃/ | posez /po.ze/ | — | |
| 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
- poser culotte
- poser la chique et faire le mort
- poser la première pierre
- poser problème
- poser ses couilles sur la table
- poser ses valises
- poser une colle
- poser une pêche
- poser un lapin
Related terms
- apposer
- composer
- déposer
- imposer
- juxtaposer
- opposer
- reposer
- supposer
- superposer
Descendants
- → Portuguese: posar
See also
- demander
Further reading
- “poser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- perso, pores, prose, repos
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
poser m
- indefinite plural of pose
Verb
poser
- imperative of posere
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin pausō, pausāre, influenced by Latin pōnō.
Verb
poser
- to put; to place
- ses meins desus lui posa
- to suggest; to propose
- to rest; to recover; to recuperate
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of poser (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | poser | avoir posé | |||||
| gerund | en posant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | posant | ||||||
| past participle | posé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | pos | poses | pose | posons | posez | posent |
| imperfect | posoie, poseie, posoe, poseve | posoies, poseies, posoes, poseves | posoit, poseit, posot, poseve | posiiens, posiens | posiiez, posiez | posoient, poseient, posoent, posevent | |
| preterite | posai | posas | posa | posames | posastes | poserent | |
| future | poserai | poseras | posera | poserons | poseroiz, posereiz, poserez | poseront | |
| conditional | poseroie, posereie | poseroies, posereies | poseroit, posereit | poseriiens, poseriens | poseriiez, poseriez | poseroient, posereient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | pos | pos | post | posons | posez | posent |
| imperfect | posasse | posasses | posast | posissons, posissiens | posissoiz, posissez, posissiez | posassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | pose | — | posons | posez | — | ||
Descendants
- English: pose
- French: poser
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (poser, supplement)
- poser on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub