poser
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊzɚ/
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Noun edit
poser (plural posers)
- (British) 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!"
Translations edit
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
poseur — see poseur
See also edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin pausāre < Latin pausāre, influenced in meaning by pōnō (especially its past participle positus). Compare Italian posare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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
Conjugation edit
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 edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: posar
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “poser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
poser m
- indefinite plural of pose
Verb edit
poser
- imperative of posere
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin pausō, pausāre, influenced by Latin pōnō.
Verb edit
poser
Conjugation edit
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 | gerund of avoir + 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 | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + 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 | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | pose | — | posons | posez | — | ||
Descendants edit
References edit
- 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