poutzer

French

Alternative forms

• poutser

Etymology

Borrowed from German putzen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /put.se/

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Verb

poutzer

1. (Switzerland, transitive) to clean

Conjugation

Conjugation of poutzer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	poutzer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	poutzant /put.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		poutzé /put.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	poutze /puts/	poutzes /puts/	poutze /puts/	poutzons /put.sɔ̃/	poutzez /put.se/	poutzent /puts/
	imperfect	poutzais /put.sɛ/	poutzais /put.sɛ/	poutzait /put.sɛ/	poutzions /put.sjɔ̃/	poutziez /put.sje/	poutzaient /put.sɛ/
	past historic2	poutzai /put.se/	poutzas /put.sa/	poutza /put.sa/	poutzâmes /put.sam/	poutzâtes /put.sat/	poutzèrent /put.sɛʁ/
	future	poutzerai /put.sə.ʁe/	poutzeras /put.sə.ʁa/	poutzera /put.sə.ʁa/	poutzerons /put.sə.ʁɔ̃/	poutzerez /put.sə.ʁe/	poutzeront /put.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	poutzerais /put.sə.ʁɛ/	poutzerais /put.sə.ʁɛ/	poutzerait /put.sə.ʁɛ/	poutzerions /put.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	poutzeriez /put.sə.ʁje/	poutzeraient /put.sə.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	poutze /puts/	poutzes /puts/	poutze /puts/	poutzions /put.sjɔ̃/	poutziez /put.sje/	poutzent /puts/
	imperfect2	poutzasse /put.sas/	poutzasses /put.sas/	poutzât /put.sa/	poutzassions /put.sa.sjɔ̃/	poutzassiez /put.sa.sje/	poutzassent /put.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	poutze /puts/	—	poutzons /put.sɔ̃/	poutzez /put.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).

Further reading

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