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pinailler
pinailler
French
Verb
pinailler
- (colloquial, intransitive) nitpick, split hairs (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Conjugation
Conjugation of pinailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | pinailler | avoir pinaillé | |||||
| gerund | en pinaillant | en ayant pinaillé | |||||
| present participle | pinaillant /pi.na.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | pinaillé /pi.na.je/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | pinaillai /pi.na.je/ |
pinaillas /pi.na.ja/ |
pinailla /pi.na.ja/ |
pinaillâmes /pi.na.jam/ |
pinaillâtes /pi.na.jat/ |
pinaillèrent /pi.na.jɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pinaille /pi.naj/ |
pinailles /pi.naj/ |
pinaille /pi.naj/ |
pinaillions /pi.naj.jɔ̃/ |
pinailliez /pi.naj.je/ |
pinaillent /pi.naj/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | pinaille /pi.naj/ |
— | pinaillons /pi.na.jɔ̃/ |
pinaillez /pi.na.je/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- pinaillage
- pinaillerie
- pinailleur