pique-niquer
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
- to picnic
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pique-niquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pique-niquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pique-niquant /pik.ni.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pique-niqué /pik.ni.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pique-nique /pik.nik/ |
pique-niques /pik.nik/ |
pique-nique /pik.nik/ |
pique-niquons /pik.ni.kɔ̃/ |
pique-niquez /pik.ni.ke/ |
pique-niquent /pik.nik/ |
| imperfect | pique-niquais /pik.ni.kɛ/ |
pique-niquais /pik.ni.kɛ/ |
pique-niquait /pik.ni.kɛ/ |
pique-niquions /pik.ni.kjɔ̃/ |
pique-niquiez /pik.ni.kje/ |
pique-niquaient /pik.ni.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pique-niquai /pik.ni.ke/ |
pique-niquas /pik.ni.ka/ |
pique-niqua /pik.ni.ka/ |
pique-niquâmes /pik.ni.kam/ |
pique-niquâtes /pik.ni.kat/ |
pique-niquèrent /pik.ni.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | pique-niquerai /pik.ni.kʁe/ |
pique-niqueras /pik.ni.kʁa/ |
pique-niquera /pik.ni.kʁa/ |
pique-niquerons /pik.ni.kʁɔ̃/ |
pique-niquerez /pik.ni.kʁe/ |
pique-niqueront /pik.ni.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pique-niquerais /pik.ni.kʁɛ/ |
pique-niquerais /pik.ni.kʁɛ/ |
pique-niquerait /pik.ni.kʁɛ/ |
pique-niquerions /pik.ni.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pique-niqueriez /pik.ni.kə.ʁje/ |
pique-niqueraient /pik.ni.kʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | pique-nique /pik.nik/ |
pique-niques /pik.nik/ |
pique-nique /pik.nik/ |
pique-niquions /pik.ni.kjɔ̃/ |
pique-niquiez /pik.ni.kje/ |
pique-niquent /pik.nik/ |
| imperfect2 | pique-niquasse /pik.ni.kas/ |
pique-niquasses /pik.ni.kas/ |
pique-niquât /pik.ni.ka/ |
pique-niquassions /pik.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
pique-niquassiez /pik.ni.ka.sje/ |
pique-niquassent /pik.ni.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pique-nique /pik.nik/ |
— | pique-niquons /pik.ni.kɔ̃/ |
pique-niquez /pik.ni.ke/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- “pique-niquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.