pioncer
French
Pronunciation
Verb
pioncer
- (slang, intransitive) To be sleeping.
- Elle a pioncé pendant toute la durée du cours.
- (slang, reflexive) To go to sleep; to crash out, hit the hay.
- Bon, il est temps que j'aille me pioncer !
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pioncer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.