picoler

French

Etymology

Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.kɔ.le/

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Verb

picoler

1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) to drink, tipple
   • 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:

     Il a essayé de trouver du travail comme serveur dans un bar mais je crois bien qu’il a passé plus de temps à picoler au comptoir du bar qu’à y demander du travail.

     He tried to find work as a barman, but I think he spent more time drinking at the bar than asking for work there.

Conjugation

Conjugation of picoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	picoler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	picolant /pi.kɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		picolé /pi.kɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	picole /pi.kɔl/	picoles /pi.kɔl/	picole /pi.kɔl/	picolons /pi.kɔ.lɔ̃/	picolez /pi.kɔ.le/	picolent /pi.kɔl/
	imperfect	picolais /pi.kɔ.lɛ/	picolais /pi.kɔ.lɛ/	picolait /pi.kɔ.lɛ/	picolions /pi.kɔ.ljɔ̃/	picoliez /pi.kɔ.lje/	picolaient /pi.kɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	picolai /pi.kɔ.le/	picolas /pi.kɔ.la/	picola /pi.kɔ.la/	picolâmes /pi.kɔ.lam/	picolâtes /pi.kɔ.lat/	picolèrent /pi.kɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	picolerai /pi.kɔl.ʁe/	picoleras /pi.kɔl.ʁa/	picolera /pi.kɔl.ʁa/	picolerons /pi.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/	picolerez /pi.kɔl.ʁe/	picoleront /pi.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	picolerais /pi.kɔl.ʁɛ/	picolerais /pi.kɔl.ʁɛ/	picolerait /pi.kɔl.ʁɛ/	picolerions /pi.kɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	picoleriez /pi.kɔ.lə.ʁje/	picoleraient /pi.kɔl.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	picole /pi.kɔl/	picoles /pi.kɔl/	picole /pi.kɔl/	picolions /pi.kɔ.ljɔ̃/	picoliez /pi.kɔ.lje/	picolent /pi.kɔl/
	imperfect2	picolasse /pi.kɔ.las/	picolasses /pi.kɔ.las/	picolât /pi.kɔ.la/	picolassions /pi.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	picolassiez /pi.kɔ.la.sje/	picolassent /pi.kɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	picole /pi.kɔl/	—	picolons /pi.kɔ.lɔ̃/	picolez /pi.kɔ.le/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• policer