pigeonner

French

Etymology

From pigeon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʒɔ.ne/

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Verb

pigeonner

1. (informal) to take for a ride or dupe (the person being duped is the pigeon)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pigeonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pigeonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pigeonnant /pi.ʒɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pigeonné /pi.ʒɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pigeonne /pi.ʒɔn/	pigeonnes /pi.ʒɔn/	pigeonne /pi.ʒɔn/	pigeonnons /pi.ʒɔ.nɔ̃/	pigeonnez /pi.ʒɔ.ne/	pigeonnent /pi.ʒɔn/
	imperfect	pigeonnais /pi.ʒɔ.nɛ/	pigeonnais /pi.ʒɔ.nɛ/	pigeonnait /pi.ʒɔ.nɛ/	pigeonnions /pi.ʒɔ.njɔ̃/	pigeonniez /pi.ʒɔ.nje/	pigeonnaient /pi.ʒɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	pigeonnai /pi.ʒɔ.ne/	pigeonnas /pi.ʒɔ.na/	pigeonna /pi.ʒɔ.na/	pigeonnâmes /pi.ʒɔ.nam/	pigeonnâtes /pi.ʒɔ.nat/	pigeonnèrent /pi.ʒɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	pigeonnerai /pi.ʒɔn.ʁe/	pigeonneras /pi.ʒɔn.ʁa/	pigeonnera /pi.ʒɔn.ʁa/	pigeonnerons /pi.ʒɔn.ʁɔ̃/	pigeonnerez /pi.ʒɔn.ʁe/	pigeonneront /pi.ʒɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pigeonnerais /pi.ʒɔn.ʁɛ/	pigeonnerais /pi.ʒɔn.ʁɛ/	pigeonnerait /pi.ʒɔn.ʁɛ/	pigeonnerions /pi.ʒɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	pigeonneriez /pi.ʒɔ.nə.ʁje/	pigeonneraient /pi.ʒɔn.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	pigeonne /pi.ʒɔn/	pigeonnes /pi.ʒɔn/	pigeonne /pi.ʒɔn/	pigeonnions /pi.ʒɔ.njɔ̃/	pigeonniez /pi.ʒɔ.nje/	pigeonnent /pi.ʒɔn/
	imperfect2	pigeonnasse /pi.ʒɔ.nas/	pigeonnasses /pi.ʒɔ.nas/	pigeonnât /pi.ʒɔ.na/	pigeonnassions /pi.ʒɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	pigeonnassiez /pi.ʒɔ.na.sje/	pigeonnassent /pi.ʒɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pigeonne /pi.ʒɔn/	—	pigeonnons /pi.ʒɔ.nɔ̃/	pigeonnez /pi.ʒɔ.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).

Further reading

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