pinailler
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pinailler
- (colloquial, intransitive) nitpick, split hairs (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of pinailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pinailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pinaillant /pi.na.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pinaillé /pi.na.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pinaille /pi.naj/ |
pinailles /pi.naj/ |
pinaille /pi.naj/ |
pinaillons /pi.na.jɔ̃/ |
pinaillez /pi.na.je/ |
pinaillent /pi.naj/ |
| imperfect | pinaillais /pi.na.jɛ/ |
pinaillais /pi.na.jɛ/ |
pinaillait /pi.na.jɛ/ |
pinaillions /pi.naj.jɔ̃/ |
pinailliez /pi.naj.je/ |
pinaillaient /pi.na.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pinaillai /pi.na.je/ |
pinaillas /pi.na.ja/ |
pinailla /pi.na.ja/ |
pinaillâmes /pi.na.jam/ |
pinaillâtes /pi.na.jat/ |
pinaillèrent /pi.na.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | pinaillerai /pi.naj.ʁe/ |
pinailleras /pi.naj.ʁa/ |
pinaillera /pi.naj.ʁa/ |
pinaillerons /pi.naj.ʁɔ̃/ |
pinaillerez /pi.naj.ʁe/ |
pinailleront /pi.naj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pinaillerais /pi.naj.ʁɛ/ |
pinaillerais /pi.naj.ʁɛ/ |
pinaillerait /pi.naj.ʁɛ/ |
pinaillerions /pi.na.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pinailleriez /pi.na.jə.ʁje/ |
pinailleraient /pi.naj.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 | pinaille /pi.naj/ |
pinailles /pi.naj/ |
pinaille /pi.naj/ |
pinaillions /pi.naj.jɔ̃/ |
pinailliez /pi.naj.je/ |
pinaillent /pi.naj/ |
| imperfect2 | pinaillasse /pi.na.jas/ |
pinaillasses /pi.na.jas/ |
pinaillât /pi.na.ja/ |
pinaillassions /pi.na.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
pinaillassiez /pi.na.ja.sje/ |
pinaillassent /pi.na.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pinaille /pi.naj/ |
— | pinaillons /pi.na.jɔ̃/ |
pinaillez /pi.na.je/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pinailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.