taquiner
French
Etymology
From taquin + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ki.ne/
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Verb
taquiner
- to tease
- Il n'a pas dit ça méchamment, c'était pour te taquiner.
- He didn't say that to be mean, it was just to tease you.
Conjugation
Conjugation of taquiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | taquiner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | taquinant /ta.ki.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | taquiné /ta.ki.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | taquine /ta.kin/ | taquines /ta.kin/ | taquine /ta.kin/ | taquinons /ta.ki.nɔ̃/ | taquinez /ta.ki.ne/ | taquinent /ta.kin/ |
imperfect | taquinais /ta.ki.nɛ/ | taquinais /ta.ki.nɛ/ | taquinait /ta.ki.nɛ/ | taquinions /ta.ki.njɔ̃/ | taquiniez /ta.ki.nje/ | taquinaient /ta.ki.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | taquinai /ta.ki.ne/ | taquinas /ta.ki.na/ | taquina /ta.ki.na/ | taquinâmes /ta.ki.nam/ | taquinâtes /ta.ki.nat/ | taquinèrent /ta.ki.nɛʁ/ | |
future | taquinerai /ta.kin.ʁe/ | taquineras /ta.kin.ʁa/ | taquinera /ta.kin.ʁa/ | taquinerons /ta.kin.ʁɔ̃/ | taquinerez /ta.kin.ʁe/ | taquineront /ta.kin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | taquinerais /ta.kin.ʁɛ/ | taquinerais /ta.kin.ʁɛ/ | taquinerait /ta.kin.ʁɛ/ | taquinerions /ta.ki.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | taquineriez /ta.ki.nə.ʁje/ | taquineraient /ta.kin.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 | taquine /ta.kin/ | taquines /ta.kin/ | taquine /ta.kin/ | taquinions /ta.ki.njɔ̃/ | taquiniez /ta.ki.nje/ | taquinent /ta.kin/ |
imperfect2 | taquinasse /ta.ki.nas/ | taquinasses /ta.ki.nas/ | taquinât /ta.ki.na/ | taquinassions /ta.ki.na.sjɔ̃/ | taquinassiez /ta.ki.na.sje/ | taquinassent /ta.ki.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | taquine /ta.kin/ | — | taquinons /ta.ki.nɔ̃/ | taquinez /ta.ki.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). |
Further reading
- “taquiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- renaquit, renaquît