pavaner

French

Etymology

From pavane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.va.ne/

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Verb

pavaner

1. (reflexive) to strut one's stuff

Conjugation

Conjugation of pavaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pavaner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pavanant /pa.va.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pavané /pa.va.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pavane /pa.van/	pavanes /pa.van/	pavane /pa.van/	pavanons /pa.va.nɔ̃/	pavanez /pa.va.ne/	pavanent /pa.van/
	imperfect	pavanais /pa.va.nɛ/	pavanais /pa.va.nɛ/	pavanait /pa.va.nɛ/	pavanions /pa.va.njɔ̃/	pavaniez /pa.va.nje/	pavanaient /pa.va.nɛ/
	past historic2	pavanai /pa.va.ne/	pavanas /pa.va.na/	pavana /pa.va.na/	pavanâmes /pa.va.nam/	pavanâtes /pa.va.nat/	pavanèrent /pa.va.nɛʁ/
	future	pavanerai /pa.van.ʁe/	pavaneras /pa.van.ʁa/	pavanera /pa.van.ʁa/	pavanerons /pa.van.ʁɔ̃/	pavanerez /pa.van.ʁe/	pavaneront /pa.van.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pavanerais /pa.van.ʁɛ/	pavanerais /pa.van.ʁɛ/	pavanerait /pa.van.ʁɛ/	pavanerions /pa.va.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	pavaneriez /pa.va.nə.ʁje/	pavaneraient /pa.van.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	pavane /pa.van/	pavanes /pa.van/	pavane /pa.van/	pavanions /pa.va.njɔ̃/	pavaniez /pa.va.nje/	pavanent /pa.van/
	imperfect2	pavanasse /pa.va.nas/	pavanasses /pa.va.nas/	pavanât /pa.va.na/	pavanassions /pa.va.na.sjɔ̃/	pavanassiez /pa.va.na.sje/	pavanassent /pa.va.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pavane /pa.van/	—	pavanons /pa.va.nɔ̃/	pavanez /pa.va.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).

Derived terms

• pavanement

Related terms

• pavane

Further reading

• “pavaner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.