punaiser

French

Etymology

From punaise (“tack, pin”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.nɛ.ze/, /py.ne.ze/

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Verb

punaiser

1. (transitive) to pin up (attach with pins)

Conjugation

Conjugation of punaiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	punaiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	punaisant /py.nɛ.zɑ̃/ or /py.ne.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		punaisé /py.nɛ.ze/ or /py.ne.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	punaise /py.nɛz/	punaises /py.nɛz/	punaise /py.nɛz/	punaisons /py.nɛ.zɔ̃/ or /py.ne.zɔ̃/	punaisez /py.nɛ.ze/ or /py.ne.ze/	punaisent /py.nɛz/
	imperfect	punaisais /py.nɛ.zɛ/ or /py.ne.zɛ/	punaisais /py.nɛ.zɛ/ or /py.ne.zɛ/	punaisait /py.nɛ.zɛ/ or /py.ne.zɛ/	punaisions /py.nɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /py.ne.zjɔ̃/	punaisiez /py.nɛ.zje/ or /py.ne.zje/	punaisaient /py.nɛ.zɛ/ or /py.ne.zɛ/
	past historic2	punaisai /py.nɛ.ze/ or /py.ne.ze/	punaisas /py.nɛ.za/ or /py.ne.za/	punaisa /py.nɛ.za/ or /py.ne.za/	punaisâmes /py.nɛ.zam/ or /py.ne.zam/	punaisâtes /py.nɛ.zat/ or /py.ne.zat/	punaisèrent /py.nɛ.zɛʁ/ or /py.ne.zɛʁ/
	future	punaiserai /py.nɛz.ʁe/	punaiseras /py.nɛz.ʁa/	punaisera /py.nɛz.ʁa/	punaiserons /py.nɛz.ʁɔ̃/	punaiserez /py.nɛz.ʁe/	punaiseront /py.nɛz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	punaiserais /py.nɛz.ʁɛ/	punaiserais /py.nɛz.ʁɛ/	punaiserait /py.nɛz.ʁɛ/	punaiserions /py.nɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /py.ne.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	punaiseriez /py.nɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /py.ne.zə.ʁje/	punaiseraient /py.nɛz.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	punaise /py.nɛz/	punaises /py.nɛz/	punaise /py.nɛz/	punaisions /py.nɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /py.ne.zjɔ̃/	punaisiez /py.nɛ.zje/ or /py.ne.zje/	punaisent /py.nɛz/
	imperfect2	punaisasse /py.nɛ.zas/ or /py.ne.zas/	punaisasses /py.nɛ.zas/ or /py.ne.zas/	punaisât /py.nɛ.za/ or /py.ne.za/	punaisassions /py.nɛ.za.sjɔ̃/ or /py.ne.za.sjɔ̃/	punaisassiez /py.nɛ.za.sje/ or /py.ne.za.sje/	punaisassent /py.nɛ.zas/ or /py.ne.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	punaise /py.nɛz/	—	punaisons /py.nɛ.zɔ̃/ or /py.ne.zɔ̃/	punaisez /py.nɛ.ze/ or /py.ne.ze/	—
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

• repunaiser (= punaiser à nouveau)

Further reading

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