taquiner
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]taquiner
- to tease
- Il n’a pas dit ça méchamment, c’était pour te taquiner.
- He didn't say that to be mean, it was just to tease you.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of taquiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | taquiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | taquinant /ta.ki.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | taquiné /ta.ki.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | taquine /ta.kin/ |
taquines /ta.kin/ |
taquine /ta.kin/ |
taquinons /ta.ki.nɔ̃/ |
taquinez /ta.ki.ne/ |
taquinent /ta.kin/ |
| imperfect | taquinais /ta.ki.nɛ/ |
taquinais /ta.ki.nɛ/ |
taquinait /ta.ki.nɛ/ |
taquinions /ta.ki.njɔ̃/ |
taquiniez /ta.ki.nje/ |
taquinaient /ta.ki.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | taquinai /ta.ki.ne/ |
taquinas /ta.ki.na/ |
taquina /ta.ki.na/ |
taquinâmes /ta.ki.nam/ |
taquinâtes /ta.ki.nat/ |
taquinèrent /ta.ki.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | taquinerai /ta.kin.ʁe/ |
taquineras /ta.kin.ʁa/ |
taquinera /ta.kin.ʁa/ |
taquinerons /ta.kin.ʁɔ̃/ |
taquinerez /ta.kin.ʁe/ |
taquineront /ta.kin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | taquinerais /ta.kin.ʁɛ/ |
taquinerais /ta.kin.ʁɛ/ |
taquinerait /ta.kin.ʁɛ/ |
taquinerions /ta.ki.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
taquineriez /ta.ki.nə.ʁje/ |
taquineraient /ta.kin.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 | taquine /ta.kin/ |
taquines /ta.kin/ |
taquine /ta.kin/ |
taquinions /ta.ki.njɔ̃/ |
taquiniez /ta.ki.nje/ |
taquinent /ta.kin/ |
| imperfect2 | taquinasse /ta.ki.nas/ |
taquinasses /ta.ki.nas/ |
taquinât /ta.ki.na/ |
taquinassions /ta.ki.na.sjɔ̃/ |
taquinassiez /ta.ki.na.sje/ |
taquinassent /ta.ki.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | taquine /ta.kin/ |
— | taquinons /ta.ki.nɔ̃/ |
taquinez /ta.ki.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “taquiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.