poireauter

French

Etymology

From poireau (“leek”) +‎ -er, with an epenthetic -t-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwa.ʁo.te/

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Verb

poireauter

1. (colloquial) to hang around, to hang

   Il m’a fait poireauter 4 jours.

   He left me hanging for 4 days.

Conjugation

Conjugation of poireauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	poireauter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	poireautant /pwa.ʁo.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		poireauté /pwa.ʁo.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	poireaute /pwa.ʁot/	poireautes /pwa.ʁot/	poireaute /pwa.ʁot/	poireautons /pwa.ʁo.tɔ̃/	poireautez /pwa.ʁo.te/	poireautent /pwa.ʁot/
	imperfect	poireautais /pwa.ʁo.tɛ/	poireautais /pwa.ʁo.tɛ/	poireautait /pwa.ʁo.tɛ/	poireautions /pwa.ʁo.tjɔ̃/	poireautiez /pwa.ʁo.tje/	poireautaient /pwa.ʁo.tɛ/
	past historic2	poireautai /pwa.ʁo.te/	poireautas /pwa.ʁo.ta/	poireauta /pwa.ʁo.ta/	poireautâmes /pwa.ʁo.tam/	poireautâtes /pwa.ʁo.tat/	poireautèrent /pwa.ʁo.tɛʁ/
	future	poireauterai /pwa.ʁo.tʁe/	poireauteras /pwa.ʁo.tʁa/	poireautera /pwa.ʁo.tʁa/	poireauterons /pwa.ʁo.tʁɔ̃/	poireauterez /pwa.ʁo.tʁe/	poireauteront /pwa.ʁo.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	poireauterais /pwa.ʁo.tʁɛ/	poireauterais /pwa.ʁo.tʁɛ/	poireauterait /pwa.ʁo.tʁɛ/	poireauterions /pwa.ʁo.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	poireauteriez /pwa.ʁo.tə.ʁje/	poireauteraient /pwa.ʁo.tʁɛ/
(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	poireaute /pwa.ʁot/	poireautes /pwa.ʁot/	poireaute /pwa.ʁot/	poireautions /pwa.ʁo.tjɔ̃/	poireautiez /pwa.ʁo.tje/	poireautent /pwa.ʁot/
	imperfect2	poireautasse /pwa.ʁo.tas/	poireautasses /pwa.ʁo.tas/	poireautât /pwa.ʁo.ta/	poireautassions /pwa.ʁo.ta.sjɔ̃/	poireautassiez /pwa.ʁo.ta.sje/	poireautassent /pwa.ʁo.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	poireaute /pwa.ʁot/	—	poireautons /pwa.ʁo.tɔ̃/	poireautez /pwa.ʁo.te/	—
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

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