pucer
English
Adjective
pucer
- comparative form of puce: more puce
- 1996, Jilly Cooper, Appassionata
- Resplendent in puce velvet to match her face, she was sitting beyond George. She turned even pucer when she saw Trevor's little furry face emerging from Flora's dark blue shirt to lick his mistress on the chin.
- 1996, Jilly Cooper, Appassionata
French
Etymology
puce + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.se/
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Verb
pucer
- to chip (insert a chip under the skin)
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of pucer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pucer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | puçant /py.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pucé /py.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | puce /pys/ | puces /pys/ | puce /pys/ | puçons /py.sɔ̃/ | pucez /py.se/ | pucent /pys/ |
| imperfect | puçais /py.sɛ/ | puçais /py.sɛ/ | puçait /py.sɛ/ | pucions /py.sjɔ̃/ | puciez /py.sje/ | puçaient /py.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | puçai /py.se/ | puças /py.sa/ | puça /py.sa/ | puçâmes /py.sam/ | puçâtes /py.sat/ | pucèrent /py.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | pucerai /py.sʁe/ | puceras /py.sʁa/ | pucera /py.sʁa/ | pucerons /py.sʁɔ̃/ | pucerez /py.sʁe/ | puceront /py.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pucerais /py.sʁɛ/ | pucerais /py.sʁɛ/ | pucerait /py.sʁɛ/ | pucerions /py.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | puceriez /py.sə.ʁje/ | puceraient /py.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | puce /pys/ | puces /pys/ | puce /pys/ | pucions /py.sjɔ̃/ | puciez /py.sje/ | pucent /pys/ |
| imperfect2 | puçasse /py.sas/ | puçasses /py.sas/ | puçât /py.sa/ | puçassions /py.sa.sjɔ̃/ | puçassiez /py.sa.sje/ | puçassent /py.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | puce /pys/ | — | puçons /py.sɔ̃/ | pucez /py.se/ | — | |
| 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
- puçage
Further reading
- “pucer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.