pogner
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[edit]Verb
[edit]pogner
- (North America, transitive) to catch
- Sauve-toi, il va te pogner!
- Run, he's going to catch you!
- J’ai pogné un rhume.
- I caught a cold.
- (North America, transitive) to grab, to grasp
- Il a pogné ses clés puis il est sorti.
- He grabbed his keys and then he left.
- Il l’a pognée par les cheveux.
- He grasped it by the hair.
- (North America, slang, figuratively) to seize
- L’envie m’a pogné de l’embrasser.
- I was seized by the desire to kiss her.
- (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal verb) to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion)
- Voyons, qu’est-ce qui te pogne tout d’un coup?
- Hey, what's gotten into you all of a sudden?
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding)
- Il s’est fait pogner par son patron.
- He was found out by his boss.
- (Quebec, transitive) to collide, to hit
- Je roulais à une vitesse normale, mais j’ai pogné une bosse et je ne m’y attendais pas.
- I was driving at a regular speed, but I hit a bump and I wasn't expecting it.
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to receive
- Il a pogné trois ans de prison.
- He got three years of jail time.
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke)
- La pognes-tu?
- Do you get it?
- J’la pogne pas.
- I don't understand.
- (Quebec, informal, intransitive) to catch on or become popular, to succeed
- Ma musique pogne pas.
- My music isn't catching on.
- Notre site Internet pogne de plus en plus.
- Our Web site is getting more and more popular.
- (Quebec, slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships
- J’ai beau aller dans les bars, je pogne pas pantoute.
- Try as I might at bars, I can't get any.
- Ce gars-là pogne vraiment, toutes les filles sont à ses pieds.
- That guy's a real lady-killer! All the girls are at his feet.
- (Quebec, informal, reflexive) to take or acquire something (for oneself)
- C’est gratuit! Pogne-toi-z-en une couple!
- It's free! Take a few!
- C’est tellement bon, cet album-là, je vais m’en pogner un c’est sûr!
- This album's really good! I'm definitely going to get it for myself.
- (Quebec, informal) to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively)
- Il s’est pogné le doigt dans la machine.
- He got his finger stuck in the machine.
- J’ai peur de me pogner les cheveux dans le filtreur de la piscine.
- I'm afraid of getting my hair stuck in the pool filtration system.
- (Quebec, slang, reflexive) to argue, to quarrel, to butt heads [with avec]
- C’est la troisième fois qu’il se pogne avec le prof cette semaine.
- That's the third time this week that he's beefed with the professor.
- Quand on se pogne avec quelqu’un à tout bout de champ, je pense que c’est mieux de prendre ses distances.
- When you're butting heads with someone and there's no end in sight, I think it's better to keep your distance.
- (Quebec, slang, reflexive) to make out, or to make love or have sex
- Depuis deux semaines, ma sœur passe ses soirées à se pogner avec son amoureux.
- For the past two weeks, my sister's been spending her evenings having sex with her lover.
- (Louisiana, slang, transitive) to fool
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of pogner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | pogner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pognant /pɔ.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pogné /pɔ.ɲe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognes /pɔɲ/ |
pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognons /pɔ.ɲɔ̃/ |
pognez /pɔ.ɲe/ |
pognent /pɔɲ/ |
imperfect | pognais /pɔ.ɲɛ/ |
pognais /pɔ.ɲɛ/ |
pognait /pɔ.ɲɛ/ |
pognions /pɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
pogniez /pɔ.ɲje/ |
pognaient /pɔ.ɲɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pognai /pɔ.ɲe/ |
pognas /pɔ.ɲa/ |
pogna /pɔ.ɲa/ |
pognâmes /pɔ.ɲam/ |
pognâtes /pɔ.ɲat/ |
pognèrent /pɔ.ɲɛʁ/ | |
future | pognerai /pɔ.ɲə.ʁe/ |
pogneras /pɔ.ɲə.ʁa/ |
pognera /pɔ.ɲə.ʁa/ |
pognerons /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
pognerez /pɔ.ɲə.ʁe/ |
pogneront /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pognerais /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
pognerais /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
pognerait /pɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
pognerions /pɔ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pogneriez /pɔ.ɲə.ʁje/ |
pogneraient /pɔ.ɲə.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 | pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognes /pɔɲ/ |
pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognions /pɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
pogniez /pɔ.ɲje/ |
pognent /pɔɲ/ |
imperfect2 | pognasse /pɔ.ɲas/ |
pognasses /pɔ.ɲas/ |
pognât /pɔ.ɲa/ |
pognassions /pɔ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
pognassiez /pɔ.ɲa.sje/ |
pognassent /pɔ.ɲas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pogne /pɔɲ/ |
— | pognons /pɔ.ɲɔ̃/ |
pognez /pɔ.ɲe/ |
— | |
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). |
Further reading
[edit]- “pogner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- pogner in la Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophone
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