tisonner

French

Etymology

From tison +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.zɔ.ne/

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Verb

tisonner

1. (transitive) to poke

Conjugation

Conjugation of tisonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tisonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tisonnant /ti.zɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tisonné /ti.zɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tisonne /ti.zɔn/	tisonnes /ti.zɔn/	tisonne /ti.zɔn/	tisonnons /ti.zɔ.nɔ̃/	tisonnez /ti.zɔ.ne/	tisonnent /ti.zɔn/
	imperfect	tisonnais /ti.zɔ.nɛ/	tisonnais /ti.zɔ.nɛ/	tisonnait /ti.zɔ.nɛ/	tisonnions /ti.zɔ.njɔ̃/	tisonniez /ti.zɔ.nje/	tisonnaient /ti.zɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	tisonnai /ti.zɔ.ne/	tisonnas /ti.zɔ.na/	tisonna /ti.zɔ.na/	tisonnâmes /ti.zɔ.nam/	tisonnâtes /ti.zɔ.nat/	tisonnèrent /ti.zɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	tisonnerai /ti.zɔn.ʁe/	tisonneras /ti.zɔn.ʁa/	tisonnera /ti.zɔn.ʁa/	tisonnerons /ti.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/	tisonnerez /ti.zɔn.ʁe/	tisonneront /ti.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tisonnerais /ti.zɔn.ʁɛ/	tisonnerais /ti.zɔn.ʁɛ/	tisonnerait /ti.zɔn.ʁɛ/	tisonnerions /ti.zɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	tisonneriez /ti.zɔ.nə.ʁje/	tisonneraient /ti.zɔn.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	tisonne /ti.zɔn/	tisonnes /ti.zɔn/	tisonne /ti.zɔn/	tisonnions /ti.zɔ.njɔ̃/	tisonniez /ti.zɔ.nje/	tisonnent /ti.zɔn/
	imperfect2	tisonnasse /ti.zɔ.nas/	tisonnasses /ti.zɔ.nas/	tisonnât /ti.zɔ.na/	tisonnassions /ti.zɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	tisonnassiez /ti.zɔ.na.sje/	tisonnassent /ti.zɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tisonne /ti.zɔn/	—	tisonnons /ti.zɔ.nɔ̃/	tisonnez /ti.zɔ.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

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