tirebouchonner

See also: tire-bouchonner

French

Alternative forms

• tire-bouchonner.

Etymology

From tire-bouchon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.ne/

• Audio:

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Verb

tirebouchonner

1. (intransitive) to take a spiralling shape evocative of a corkscrew

Conjugation

Conjugation of tirebouchonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tirebouchonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tirebouchonnant /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tirebouchonné /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tirebouchonne /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	tirebouchonnes /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	tirebouchonne /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	tirebouchonnons /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	tirebouchonnez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.ne/	tirebouchonnent /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/
	imperfect	tirebouchonnais /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/	tirebouchonnais /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/	tirebouchonnait /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/	tirebouchonnions /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	tirebouchonniez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nje/	tirebouchonnaient /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	tirebouchonnai /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.ne/	tirebouchonnas /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.na/	tirebouchonna /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.na/	tirebouchonnâmes /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nam/	tirebouchonnâtes /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nat/	tirebouchonnèrent /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	tirebouchonnerai /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁe/	tirebouchonneras /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁa/	tirebouchonnera /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁa/	tirebouchonnerons /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/	tirebouchonnerez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁe/	tirebouchonneront /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tirebouchonnerais /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	tirebouchonnerais /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	tirebouchonnerait /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	tirebouchonnerions /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	tirebouchonneriez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nə.ʁje/	tirebouchonneraient /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn.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	tirebouchonne /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	tirebouchonnes /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	tirebouchonne /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	tirebouchonnions /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	tirebouchonniez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nje/	tirebouchonnent /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/
	imperfect2	tirebouchonnasse /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nas/	tirebouchonnasses /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nas/	tirebouchonnât /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.na/	tirebouchonnassions /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	tirebouchonnassiez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.na.sje/	tirebouchonnassent /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tirebouchonne /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔn/	—	tirebouchonnons /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	tirebouchonnez /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ.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

• tire-bouchon

Further reading

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