pétuner

French

Etymology

From pétun +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ty.ne/

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Verb

pétuner

1. (obsolete) to smoke, especially tobacco
2. (obsolete) to take snuff

Conjugation

Conjugation of pétuner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pétuner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pétunant /pe.ty.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pétuné /pe.ty.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pétune /pe.tyn/	pétunes /pe.tyn/	pétune /pe.tyn/	pétunons /pe.ty.nɔ̃/	pétunez /pe.ty.ne/	pétunent /pe.tyn/
	imperfect	pétunais /pe.ty.nɛ/	pétunais /pe.ty.nɛ/	pétunait /pe.ty.nɛ/	pétunions /pe.ty.njɔ̃/	pétuniez /pe.ty.nje/	pétunaient /pe.ty.nɛ/
	past historic2	pétunai /pe.ty.ne/	pétunas /pe.ty.na/	pétuna /pe.ty.na/	pétunâmes /pe.ty.nam/	pétunâtes /pe.ty.nat/	pétunèrent /pe.ty.nɛʁ/
	future	pétunerai /pe.tyn.ʁe/	pétuneras /pe.tyn.ʁa/	pétunera /pe.tyn.ʁa/	pétunerons /pe.tyn.ʁɔ̃/	pétunerez /pe.tyn.ʁe/	pétuneront /pe.tyn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pétunerais /pe.tyn.ʁɛ/	pétunerais /pe.tyn.ʁɛ/	pétunerait /pe.tyn.ʁɛ/	pétunerions /pe.ty.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	pétuneriez /pe.ty.nə.ʁje/	pétuneraient /pe.tyn.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	pétune /pe.tyn/	pétunes /pe.tyn/	pétune /pe.tyn/	pétunions /pe.ty.njɔ̃/	pétuniez /pe.ty.nje/	pétunent /pe.tyn/
	imperfect2	pétunasse /pe.ty.nas/	pétunasses /pe.ty.nas/	pétunât /pe.ty.na/	pétunassions /pe.ty.na.sjɔ̃/	pétunassiez /pe.ty.na.sje/	pétunassent /pe.ty.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pétune /pe.tyn/	—	pétunons /pe.ty.nɔ̃/	pétunez /pe.ty.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).

Further reading

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