polissonner

French

Etymology

From polisson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.li.sɔ.ne/

Verb

polissonner

1. (archaic) to be naughty

Conjugation

Conjugation of polissonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	polissonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	polissonnant /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		polissonné /pɔ.li.sɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	polissonne /pɔ.li.sɔn/	polissonnes /pɔ.li.sɔn/	polissonne /pɔ.li.sɔn/	polissonnons /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɔ̃/	polissonnez /pɔ.li.sɔ.ne/	polissonnent /pɔ.li.sɔn/
	imperfect	polissonnais /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɛ/	polissonnais /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɛ/	polissonnait /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɛ/	polissonnions /pɔ.li.sɔ.njɔ̃/	polissonniez /pɔ.li.sɔ.nje/	polissonnaient /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	polissonnai /pɔ.li.sɔ.ne/	polissonnas /pɔ.li.sɔ.na/	polissonna /pɔ.li.sɔ.na/	polissonnâmes /pɔ.li.sɔ.nam/	polissonnâtes /pɔ.li.sɔ.nat/	polissonnèrent /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	polissonnerai /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁe/	polissonneras /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁa/	polissonnera /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁa/	polissonnerons /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/	polissonnerez /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁe/	polissonneront /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	polissonnerais /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁɛ/	polissonnerais /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁɛ/	polissonnerait /pɔ.li.sɔn.ʁɛ/	polissonnerions /pɔ.li.sɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	polissonneriez /pɔ.li.sɔ.nə.ʁje/	polissonneraient /pɔ.li.sɔn.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	polissonne /pɔ.li.sɔn/	polissonnes /pɔ.li.sɔn/	polissonne /pɔ.li.sɔn/	polissonnions /pɔ.li.sɔ.njɔ̃/	polissonniez /pɔ.li.sɔ.nje/	polissonnent /pɔ.li.sɔn/
	imperfect2	polissonnasse /pɔ.li.sɔ.nas/	polissonnasses /pɔ.li.sɔ.nas/	polissonnât /pɔ.li.sɔ.na/	polissonnassions /pɔ.li.sɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	polissonnassiez /pɔ.li.sɔ.na.sje/	polissonnassent /pɔ.li.sɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	polissonne /pɔ.li.sɔn/	—	polissonnons /pɔ.li.sɔ.nɔ̃/	polissonnez /pɔ.li.sɔ.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: 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

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