pioncer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjɔ̃.se/

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Verb

pioncer

1. (slang, intransitive) to be sleeping

   Elle a pioncé pendant toute la durée du cours.

   She slept through the whole lesson.

2. (slang, reflexive) to go to sleep; to crash out, hit the hay

   Bon, il est temps que j’aille me pioncer !

   Right, time for me to hit the hay!

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of pioncer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pioncer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pionçant /pjɔ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pioncé /pjɔ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pionce /pjɔ̃s/	pionces /pjɔ̃s/	pionce /pjɔ̃s/	pionçons /pjɔ̃.sɔ̃/	pioncez /pjɔ̃.se/	pioncent /pjɔ̃s/
	imperfect	pionçais /pjɔ̃.sɛ/	pionçais /pjɔ̃.sɛ/	pionçait /pjɔ̃.sɛ/	pioncions /pjɔ̃.sjɔ̃/	pionciez /pjɔ̃.sje/	pionçaient /pjɔ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	pionçai /pjɔ̃.se/	pionças /pjɔ̃.sa/	pionça /pjɔ̃.sa/	pionçâmes /pjɔ̃.sam/	pionçâtes /pjɔ̃.sat/	pioncèrent /pjɔ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	pioncerai /pjɔ̃.sʁe/	pionceras /pjɔ̃.sʁa/	pioncera /pjɔ̃.sʁa/	pioncerons /pjɔ̃.sʁɔ̃/	pioncerez /pjɔ̃.sʁe/	pionceront /pjɔ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pioncerais /pjɔ̃.sʁɛ/	pioncerais /pjɔ̃.sʁɛ/	pioncerait /pjɔ̃.sʁɛ/	pioncerions /pjɔ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	pionceriez /pjɔ̃.sə.ʁje/	pionceraient /pjɔ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	pionce /pjɔ̃s/	pionces /pjɔ̃s/	pionce /pjɔ̃s/	pioncions /pjɔ̃.sjɔ̃/	pionciez /pjɔ̃.sje/	pioncent /pjɔ̃s/
	imperfect2	pionçasse /pjɔ̃.sas/	pionçasses /pjɔ̃.sas/	pionçât /pjɔ̃.sa/	pionçassions /pjɔ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	pionçassiez /pjɔ̃.sa.sje/	pionçassent /pjɔ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pionce /pjɔ̃s/	—	pionçons /pjɔ̃.sɔ̃/	pioncez /pjɔ̃.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• pionce
• pionçage

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• porcine