postillonner

French

Etymology

From postillon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

postillonner

1. to splutter (speak while spitting)

Conjugation

Conjugation of postillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	postillonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	postillonnant /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		postillonné /pɔs.ti.jɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	postillonne /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	postillonnes /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	postillonne /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	postillonnons /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɔ̃/	postillonnez /pɔs.ti.jɔ.ne/	postillonnent /pɔs.ti.jɔn/
	imperfect	postillonnais /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɛ/	postillonnais /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɛ/	postillonnait /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɛ/	postillonnions /pɔs.ti.jɔ.njɔ̃/	postillonniez /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nje/	postillonnaient /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	postillonnai /pɔs.ti.jɔ.ne/	postillonnas /pɔs.ti.jɔ.na/	postillonna /pɔs.ti.jɔ.na/	postillonnâmes /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nam/	postillonnâtes /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nat/	postillonnèrent /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	postillonnerai /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁe/	postillonneras /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁa/	postillonnera /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁa/	postillonnerons /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/	postillonnerez /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁe/	postillonneront /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	postillonnerais /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁɛ/	postillonnerais /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁɛ/	postillonnerait /pɔs.ti.jɔn.ʁɛ/	postillonnerions /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	postillonneriez /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nə.ʁje/	postillonneraient /pɔs.ti.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	postillonne /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	postillonnes /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	postillonne /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	postillonnions /pɔs.ti.jɔ.njɔ̃/	postillonniez /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nje/	postillonnent /pɔs.ti.jɔn/
	imperfect2	postillonnasse /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nas/	postillonnasses /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nas/	postillonnât /pɔs.ti.jɔ.na/	postillonnassions /pɔs.ti.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	postillonnassiez /pɔs.ti.jɔ.na.sje/	postillonnassent /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	postillonne /pɔs.ti.jɔn/	—	postillonnons /pɔs.ti.jɔ.nɔ̃/	postillonnez /pɔs.ti.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).

Derived terms

• postillonnade
• postillonnage
• postillonnant
• postillonneux

Further reading

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