peigner

French

Etymology

From Old French paigner, from Latin pectināre, present active infinitive of pectinō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.ɲe/ ~ /pe.ɲe/, /pe.ɲe/

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Verb

peigner

1. to comb

Conjugation

Conjugation of peigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	peigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	peignant /pɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /pe.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		peigné /pɛ.ɲe/ or /pe.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	peigne /pɛɲ/	peignes /pɛɲ/	peigne /pɛɲ/	peignons /pɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲɔ̃/	peignez /pɛ.ɲe/ or /pe.ɲe/	peignent /pɛɲ/
	imperfect	peignais /pɛ.ɲɛ/ or /pe.ɲɛ/	peignais /pɛ.ɲɛ/ or /pe.ɲɛ/	peignait /pɛ.ɲɛ/ or /pe.ɲɛ/	peignions /pɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲjɔ̃/	peigniez /pɛ.ɲje/ or /pe.ɲje/	peignaient /pɛ.ɲɛ/ or /pe.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	peignai /pɛ.ɲe/ or /pe.ɲe/	peignas /pɛ.ɲa/ or /pe.ɲa/	peigna /pɛ.ɲa/ or /pe.ɲa/	peignâmes /pɛ.ɲam/ or /pe.ɲam/	peignâtes /pɛ.ɲat/ or /pe.ɲat/	peignèrent /pɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /pe.ɲɛʁ/
	future	peignerai /pɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁe/	peigneras /pɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁa/	peignera /pɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁa/	peignerons /pɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	peignerez /pɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁe/	peigneront /pɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	peignerais /pɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁɛ/	peignerais /pɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁɛ/	peignerait /pɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁɛ/	peignerions /pɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	peigneriez /pɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /pe.ɲə.ʁje/	peigneraient /pɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ɲə.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	peigne /pɛɲ/	peignes /pɛɲ/	peigne /pɛɲ/	peignions /pɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲjɔ̃/	peigniez /pɛ.ɲje/ or /pe.ɲje/	peignent /pɛɲ/
	imperfect2	peignasse /pɛ.ɲas/ or /pe.ɲas/	peignasses /pɛ.ɲas/ or /pe.ɲas/	peignât /pɛ.ɲa/ or /pe.ɲa/	peignassions /pɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	peignassiez /pɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /pe.ɲa.sje/	peignassent /pɛ.ɲas/ or /pe.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	peigne /pɛɲ/	—	peignons /pɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /pe.ɲɔ̃/	peignez /pɛ.ɲe/ or /pe.ɲe/	—
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

• peignage
• peigne
• peignoir

Further reading

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