picoler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.kɔ.le/
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Verb
picoler
- (colloquial, ambitransitive) to drink, tipple
- 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:
- Il a essayé de trouver du travail comme serveur dans un bar mais je crois bien qu'il a passé plus de temps à picoler au comptoir du bar qu'à y demander du travail.
- He tried to find work as a barman, but I think he spent more time drinking at the bar than asking for work there.
Conjugation
Conjugation of picoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | picoler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | picolant /pi.kɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | picolé /pi.kɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | picole /pi.kɔl/ |
picoles /pi.kɔl/ |
picole /pi.kɔl/ |
picolons /pi.kɔ.lɔ̃/ |
picolez /pi.kɔ.le/ |
picolent /pi.kɔl/ |
| imperfect | picolais /pi.kɔ.lɛ/ |
picolais /pi.kɔ.lɛ/ |
picolait /pi.kɔ.lɛ/ |
picolions /pi.kɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
picoliez /pi.kɔ.lje/ |
picolaient /pi.kɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | picolai /pi.kɔ.le/ |
picolas /pi.kɔ.la/ |
picola /pi.kɔ.la/ |
picolâmes /pi.kɔ.lam/ |
picolâtes /pi.kɔ.lat/ |
picolèrent /pi.kɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | picolerai /pi.kɔl.ʁe/ |
picoleras /pi.kɔl.ʁa/ |
picolera /pi.kɔl.ʁa/ |
picolerons /pi.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ |
picolerez /pi.kɔl.ʁe/ |
picoleront /pi.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | picolerais /pi.kɔl.ʁɛ/ |
picolerais /pi.kɔl.ʁɛ/ |
picolerait /pi.kɔl.ʁɛ/ |
picolerions /pi.kɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
picoleriez /pi.kɔ.lə.ʁje/ |
picoleraient /pi.kɔl.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 | picole /pi.kɔl/ |
picoles /pi.kɔl/ |
picole /pi.kɔl/ |
picolions /pi.kɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
picoliez /pi.kɔ.lje/ |
picolent /pi.kɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | picolasse /pi.kɔ.las/ |
picolasses /pi.kɔ.las/ |
picolât /pi.kɔ.la/ |
picolassions /pi.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ |
picolassiez /pi.kɔ.la.sje/ |
picolassent /pi.kɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | picole /pi.kɔl/ |
— | picolons /pi.kɔ.lɔ̃/ |
picolez /pi.kɔ.le/ |
— | |
| 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
- “picoler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.