pleurnicher
French
Etymology
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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)
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 179:
- « Le roi est quasi mort, vive le roi ! » À ses obsèques, 300 publicitaires pleurnichaient au cimetière de Bagneux, surtout ceux qui haïssaient Marc et souhaitaient sa mort depuis si longtemps […]
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Conjugation
Conjugation of pleurnicher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pleurnicher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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