plisser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pli.se/
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Verb
plisser
- (transitive) to squint (the eyes)
- (transitive) to fold over, pleat
- (transitive) to wrinkle, crease, pucker, screw up
- (intransitive) to be creased (of clothes etc.), wrinkled (stockings etc.)
- (reflexive) to crease, wrinkle
Conjugation
Conjugation of plisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | plisser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | plissant /pli.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | plissé /pli.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | plisse /plis/ |
plisses /plis/ |
plisse /plis/ |
plissons /pli.sɔ̃/ |
plissez /pli.se/ |
plissent /plis/ |
| imperfect | plissais /pli.sɛ/ |
plissais /pli.sɛ/ |
plissait /pli.sɛ/ |
plissions /pli.sjɔ̃/ |
plissiez /pli.sje/ |
plissaient /pli.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | plissai /pli.se/ |
plissas /pli.sa/ |
plissa /pli.sa/ |
plissâmes /pli.sam/ |
plissâtes /pli.sat/ |
plissèrent /pli.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | plisserai /pli.sʁe/ |
plisseras /pli.sʁa/ |
plissera /pli.sʁa/ |
plisserons /pli.sʁɔ̃/ |
plisserez /pli.sʁe/ |
plisseront /pli.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | plisserais /pli.sʁɛ/ |
plisserais /pli.sʁɛ/ |
plisserait /pli.sʁɛ/ |
plisserions /pli.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
plisseriez /pli.sə.ʁje/ |
plisseraient /pli.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | plisse /plis/ |
plisses /plis/ |
plisse /plis/ |
plissions /pli.sjɔ̃/ |
plissiez /pli.sje/ |
plissent /plis/ |
| imperfect2 | plissasse /pli.sas/ |
plissasses /pli.sas/ |
plissât /pli.sa/ |
plissassions /pli.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
plissassiez /pli.sa.sje/ |
plissassent /pli.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | plisse /plis/ |
— | plissons /pli.sɔ̃/ |
plissez /pli.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- plissage
- plisser les yeux
- plisseur
Descendants
- → Spanish: plisar
Further reading
- “plisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.