papillonner

French

Etymology

From papillon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/

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Verb

papillonner

1. (intransitive) to flit (from one to another)

Conjugation

Conjugation of papillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	papillonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	papillonnant /pa.pi.jɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		papillonné /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/	papillonnes /pa.pi.jɔn/	papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/	papillonnons /pa.pi.jɔ.nɔ̃/	papillonnez /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/	papillonnent /pa.pi.jɔn/
	imperfect	papillonnais /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/	papillonnais /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/	papillonnait /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/	papillonnions /pa.pi.jɔ.njɔ̃/	papillonniez /pa.pi.jɔ.nje/	papillonnaient /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	papillonnai /pa.pi.jɔ.ne/	papillonnas /pa.pi.jɔ.na/	papillonna /pa.pi.jɔ.na/	papillonnâmes /pa.pi.jɔ.nam/	papillonnâtes /pa.pi.jɔ.nat/	papillonnèrent /pa.pi.jɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	papillonnerai /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁe/	papillonneras /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁa/	papillonnera /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁa/	papillonnerons /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/	papillonnerez /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁe/	papillonneront /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	papillonnerais /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/	papillonnerais /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/	papillonnerait /pa.pi.jɔn.ʁɛ/	papillonnerions /pa.pi.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	papillonneriez /pa.pi.jɔ.nə.ʁje/	papillonneraient /pa.pi.jɔn.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	papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/	papillonnes /pa.pi.jɔn/	papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/	papillonnions /pa.pi.jɔ.njɔ̃/	papillonniez /pa.pi.jɔ.nje/	papillonnent /pa.pi.jɔn/
	imperfect2	papillonnasse /pa.pi.jɔ.nas/	papillonnasses /pa.pi.jɔ.nas/	papillonnât /pa.pi.jɔ.na/	papillonnassions /pa.pi.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	papillonnassiez /pa.pi.jɔ.na.sje/	papillonnassent /pa.pi.jɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	papillonne /pa.pi.jɔn/	—	papillonnons /pa.pi.jɔ.nɔ̃/	papillonnez /pa.pi.jɔ.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

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