pique-niquer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

pique-niquer

1. to picnic

Conjugation

Conjugation of pique-niquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pique-niquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pique-niquant /pik.ni.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pique-niqué /pik.ni.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pique-nique /pik.nik/	pique-niques /pik.nik/	pique-nique /pik.nik/	pique-niquons /pik.ni.kɔ̃/	pique-niquez /pik.ni.ke/	pique-niquent /pik.nik/
	imperfect	pique-niquais /pik.ni.kɛ/	pique-niquais /pik.ni.kɛ/	pique-niquait /pik.ni.kɛ/	pique-niquions /pik.ni.kjɔ̃/	pique-niquiez /pik.ni.kje/	pique-niquaient /pik.ni.kɛ/
	past historic2	pique-niquai /pik.ni.ke/	pique-niquas /pik.ni.ka/	pique-niqua /pik.ni.ka/	pique-niquâmes /pik.ni.kam/	pique-niquâtes /pik.ni.kat/	pique-niquèrent /pik.ni.kɛʁ/
	future	pique-niquerai /pik.ni.kʁe/	pique-niqueras /pik.ni.kʁa/	pique-niquera /pik.ni.kʁa/	pique-niquerons /pik.ni.kʁɔ̃/	pique-niquerez /pik.ni.kʁe/	pique-niqueront /pik.ni.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pique-niquerais /pik.ni.kʁɛ/	pique-niquerais /pik.ni.kʁɛ/	pique-niquerait /pik.ni.kʁɛ/	pique-niquerions /pik.ni.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	pique-niqueriez /pik.ni.kə.ʁje/	pique-niqueraient /pik.ni.kʁɛ/
(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	pique-nique /pik.nik/	pique-niques /pik.nik/	pique-nique /pik.nik/	pique-niquions /pik.ni.kjɔ̃/	pique-niquiez /pik.ni.kje/	pique-niquent /pik.nik/
	imperfect2	pique-niquasse /pik.ni.kas/	pique-niquasses /pik.ni.kas/	pique-niquât /pik.ni.ka/	pique-niquassions /pik.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/	pique-niquassiez /pik.ni.ka.sje/	pique-niquassent /pik.ni.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pique-nique /pik.nik/	—	pique-niquons /pik.ni.kɔ̃/	pique-niquez /pik.ni.ke/	—
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

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