piétiner
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]piétiner
- (intransitive) to stomp (make loud sounds by stepping)
- (intransitive) to shuffle (move forwards with short steps and with difficulty)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to make no headway, to go into a dead end
- (transitive) to trample (underfoot)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of piétiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | piétiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | piétinant /pje.ti.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | piétiné /pje.ti.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | piétine /pje.tin/ |
piétines /pje.tin/ |
piétine /pje.tin/ |
piétinons /pje.ti.nɔ̃/ |
piétinez /pje.ti.ne/ |
piétinent /pje.tin/ |
| imperfect | piétinais /pje.ti.nɛ/ |
piétinais /pje.ti.nɛ/ |
piétinait /pje.ti.nɛ/ |
piétinions /pje.ti.njɔ̃/ |
piétiniez /pje.ti.nje/ |
piétinaient /pje.ti.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | piétinai /pje.ti.ne/ |
piétinas /pje.ti.na/ |
piétina /pje.ti.na/ |
piétinâmes /pje.ti.nam/ |
piétinâtes /pje.ti.nat/ |
piétinèrent /pje.ti.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | piétinerai /pje.tin.ʁe/ |
piétineras /pje.tin.ʁa/ |
piétinera /pje.tin.ʁa/ |
piétinerons /pje.tin.ʁɔ̃/ |
piétinerez /pje.tin.ʁe/ |
piétineront /pje.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | piétinerais /pje.tin.ʁɛ/ |
piétinerais /pje.tin.ʁɛ/ |
piétinerait /pje.tin.ʁɛ/ |
piétinerions /pje.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
piétineriez /pje.ti.nə.ʁje/ |
piétineraient /pje.tin.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 | piétine /pje.tin/ |
piétines /pje.tin/ |
piétine /pje.tin/ |
piétinions /pje.ti.njɔ̃/ |
piétiniez /pje.ti.nje/ |
piétinent /pje.tin/ |
| imperfect2 | piétinasse /pje.ti.nas/ |
piétinasses /pje.ti.nas/ |
piétinât /pje.ti.na/ |
piétinassions /pje.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ |
piétinassiez /pje.ti.na.sje/ |
piétinassent /pje.ti.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | piétine /pje.tin/ |
— | piétinons /pje.ti.nɔ̃/ |
piétinez /pje.ti.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “piétiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.