pleuviner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plø.vi.ne/

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Verb

pleuviner (impersonal)

1. to drizzle

Conjugation

This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of pleuviner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pleuviner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pleuvinant /plø.vi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pleuviné /plø.vi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	pleuvine /plø.vin/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	pleuvinait /plø.vi.nɛ/	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	pleuvina /plø.vi.na/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	pleuvinera /plø.vin.ʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	pleuvinerait /plø.vin.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	—	—	pleuvine /plø.vin/	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	pleuvinât /plø.vi.na/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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

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