pilonner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

pilonner

1. to bombard, to shell
2. to grind, to pound

Conjugation

Conjugation of pilonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pilonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pilonnant /pi.lɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pilonné /pi.lɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pilonne /pi.lɔn/	pilonnes /pi.lɔn/	pilonne /pi.lɔn/	pilonnons /pi.lɔ.nɔ̃/	pilonnez /pi.lɔ.ne/	pilonnent /pi.lɔn/
	imperfect	pilonnais /pi.lɔ.nɛ/	pilonnais /pi.lɔ.nɛ/	pilonnait /pi.lɔ.nɛ/	pilonnions /pi.lɔ.njɔ̃/	pilonniez /pi.lɔ.nje/	pilonnaient /pi.lɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	pilonnai /pi.lɔ.ne/	pilonnas /pi.lɔ.na/	pilonna /pi.lɔ.na/	pilonnâmes /pi.lɔ.nam/	pilonnâtes /pi.lɔ.nat/	pilonnèrent /pi.lɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	pilonnerai /pi.lɔn.ʁe/	pilonneras /pi.lɔn.ʁa/	pilonnera /pi.lɔn.ʁa/	pilonnerons /pi.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/	pilonnerez /pi.lɔn.ʁe/	pilonneront /pi.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pilonnerais /pi.lɔn.ʁɛ/	pilonnerais /pi.lɔn.ʁɛ/	pilonnerait /pi.lɔn.ʁɛ/	pilonnerions /pi.lɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	pilonneriez /pi.lɔ.nə.ʁje/	pilonneraient /pi.lɔn.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	pilonne /pi.lɔn/	pilonnes /pi.lɔn/	pilonne /pi.lɔn/	pilonnions /pi.lɔ.njɔ̃/	pilonniez /pi.lɔ.nje/	pilonnent /pi.lɔn/
	imperfect2	pilonnasse /pi.lɔ.nas/	pilonnasses /pi.lɔ.nas/	pilonnât /pi.lɔ.na/	pilonnassions /pi.lɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	pilonnassiez /pi.lɔ.na.sje/	pilonnassent /pi.lɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pilonne /pi.lɔn/	—	pilonnons /pi.lɔ.nɔ̃/	pilonnez /pi.lɔ.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).

Related terms

• pilon
• pilonnage

Further reading

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