patouner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

patouner

1. to knead with the paws (of cats)

Conjugation

Conjugation of patouner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	patouner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	patounant /pa.tu.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		patouné /pa.tu.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	patoune /pa.tun/	patounes /pa.tun/	patoune /pa.tun/	patounons /pa.tu.nɔ̃/	patounez /pa.tu.ne/	patounent /pa.tun/
	imperfect	patounais /pa.tu.nɛ/	patounais /pa.tu.nɛ/	patounait /pa.tu.nɛ/	patounions /pa.tu.njɔ̃/	patouniez /pa.tu.nje/	patounaient /pa.tu.nɛ/
	past historic2	patounai /pa.tu.ne/	patounas /pa.tu.na/	patouna /pa.tu.na/	patounâmes /pa.tu.nam/	patounâtes /pa.tu.nat/	patounèrent /pa.tu.nɛʁ/
	future	patounerai /pa.tun.ʁe/	patouneras /pa.tun.ʁa/	patounera /pa.tun.ʁa/	patounerons /pa.tun.ʁɔ̃/	patounerez /pa.tun.ʁe/	patouneront /pa.tun.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	patounerais /pa.tun.ʁɛ/	patounerais /pa.tun.ʁɛ/	patounerait /pa.tun.ʁɛ/	patounerions /pa.tu.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	patouneriez /pa.tu.nə.ʁje/	patouneraient /pa.tun.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	patoune /pa.tun/	patounes /pa.tun/	patoune /pa.tun/	patounions /pa.tu.njɔ̃/	patouniez /pa.tu.nje/	patounent /pa.tun/
	imperfect2	patounasse /pa.tu.nas/	patounasses /pa.tu.nas/	patounât /pa.tu.na/	patounassions /pa.tu.na.sjɔ̃/	patounassiez /pa.tu.na.sje/	patounassent /pa.tu.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	patoune /pa.tun/	—	patounons /pa.tu.nɔ̃/	patounez /pa.tu.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).