pleurnicher

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/

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Verb

pleurnicher

1. to whine (to complain or protest in a childish manner or about trivial things)
   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 179:

     « Le roi est quasi mort, vive le roi ! » À ses obsèques, 300 publicitaires pleurnichaient au cimetière de Bagneux, surtout ceux qui haïssaient Marc et souhaitaient sa mort depuis si longtemps […]

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Conjugation

Conjugation of pleurnicher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pleurnicher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pleurnichant /plœʁ.ni.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pleurniché /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/	pleurniches /plœʁ.niʃ/	pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/	pleurnichons /plœʁ.ni.ʃɔ̃/	pleurnichez /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/	pleurnichent /plœʁ.niʃ/
	imperfect	pleurnichais /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/	pleurnichais /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/	pleurnichait /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/	pleurnichions /plœʁ.ni.ʃjɔ̃/	pleurnichiez /plœʁ.ni.ʃje/	pleurnichaient /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	pleurnichai /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/	pleurnichas /plœʁ.ni.ʃa/	pleurnicha /plœʁ.ni.ʃa/	pleurnichâmes /plœʁ.ni.ʃam/	pleurnichâtes /plœʁ.ni.ʃat/	pleurnichèrent /plœʁ.ni.ʃɛʁ/
	future	pleurnicherai /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁe/	pleurnicheras /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁa/	pleurnichera /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁa/	pleurnicherons /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/	pleurnicherez /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁe/	pleurnicheront /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pleurnicherais /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɛ/	pleurnicherais /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɛ/	pleurnicherait /plœʁ.niʃ.ʁɛ/	pleurnicherions /plœʁ.ni.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	pleurnicheriez /plœʁ.ni.ʃə.ʁje/	pleurnicheraient /plœʁ.niʃ.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	pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/	pleurniches /plœʁ.niʃ/	pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/	pleurnichions /plœʁ.ni.ʃjɔ̃/	pleurnichiez /plœʁ.ni.ʃje/	pleurnichent /plœʁ.niʃ/
	imperfect2	pleurnichasse /plœʁ.ni.ʃas/	pleurnichasses /plœʁ.ni.ʃas/	pleurnichât /plœʁ.ni.ʃa/	pleurnichassions /plœʁ.ni.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	pleurnichassiez /plœʁ.ni.ʃa.sje/	pleurnichassent /plœʁ.ni.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pleurniche /plœʁ.niʃ/	—	pleurnichons /plœʁ.ni.ʃɔ̃/	pleurnichez /plœʁ.ni.ʃe/	—
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

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