pomponner

French

Etymology

From pompon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃.pɔ.ne/

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Verb

pomponner

1. (transitive) to primp, titivate, prettify

Conjugation

Conjugation of pomponner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pomponner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pomponnant /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pomponné /pɔ̃.pɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pomponne /pɔ̃.pɔn/	pomponnes /pɔ̃.pɔn/	pomponne /pɔ̃.pɔn/	pomponnons /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɔ̃/	pomponnez /pɔ̃.pɔ.ne/	pomponnent /pɔ̃.pɔn/
	imperfect	pomponnais /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	pomponnais /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	pomponnait /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	pomponnions /pɔ̃.pɔ.njɔ̃/	pomponniez /pɔ̃.pɔ.nje/	pomponnaient /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	pomponnai /pɔ̃.pɔ.ne/	pomponnas /pɔ̃.pɔ.na/	pomponna /pɔ̃.pɔ.na/	pomponnâmes /pɔ̃.pɔ.nam/	pomponnâtes /pɔ̃.pɔ.nat/	pomponnèrent /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	pomponnerai /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁe/	pomponneras /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁa/	pomponnera /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁa/	pomponnerons /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/	pomponnerez /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁe/	pomponneront /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pomponnerais /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	pomponnerais /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	pomponnerait /pɔ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	pomponnerions /pɔ̃.pɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	pomponneriez /pɔ̃.pɔ.nə.ʁje/	pomponneraient /pɔ̃.pɔn.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	pomponne /pɔ̃.pɔn/	pomponnes /pɔ̃.pɔn/	pomponne /pɔ̃.pɔn/	pomponnions /pɔ̃.pɔ.njɔ̃/	pomponniez /pɔ̃.pɔ.nje/	pomponnent /pɔ̃.pɔn/
	imperfect2	pomponnasse /pɔ̃.pɔ.nas/	pomponnasses /pɔ̃.pɔ.nas/	pomponnât /pɔ̃.pɔ.na/	pomponnassions /pɔ̃.pɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	pomponnassiez /pɔ̃.pɔ.na.sje/	pomponnassent /pɔ̃.pɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pomponne /pɔ̃.pɔn/	—	pomponnons /pɔ̃.pɔ.nɔ̃/	pomponnez /pɔ̃.pɔ.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

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