pogner
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.ɲe/
Verb
pogner
- (Quebec, Louisiana, transitive) to catch.
- Sauve-toi, il va te pogner!
- Run, he's going to catch you!
- J’ai pogné un rhume.
- I caught a cold.
- Sauve-toi, il va te pogner!
- (Quebec, Louisiana, transitive) to grab, to grasp
- Il a pogné ses clés puis il est sorti.
- He grabbed his keys and then he left.
- Il l’a pognée par les cheveux.
- He grasped it by the hair.
- Il a pogné ses clés puis il est sorti.
- (Quebec, Louisiana, slang, figuratively) to seize.
- L’envie m’a pogné de l’embrasser.
- I was seized by the desire to kiss her.
- L’envie m’a pogné de l’embrasser.
- (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal verb) to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion)
- Voyons, qu’est-ce qui te pogne tout d’un coup?
- Hey, what's gotten into you all of a sudden?
- Voyons, qu’est-ce qui te pogne tout d’un coup?
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding)
- Il s'est fait pogner par son patron.
- He was found out by his boss.
- Il s'est fait pogner par son patron.
- (Quebec, transitive) to collide, to hit
- Je roulais à une vitesse normale, mais j’ai pogné une bosse et je ne m’y attendais pas.
- I was driving at a regular speed, but I hit a bump and I wasn't expecting it.
- Je roulais à une vitesse normale, mais j’ai pogné une bosse et je ne m’y attendais pas.
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to receive
- Il a pogné trois ans de prison.
- He received three years of jail time.
- Il a pogné trois ans de prison.
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke)
- La pognes-tu?
- Do you get it?
- J’la pogne pas.
- I don't understand.
- La pognes-tu?
- (Quebec, informal, intransitive) to catch on or become popular, to succeed
- Ma musique pogne pas.
- My music isn't catching on.
- Notre site Internet pogne de plus en plus.
- Our Web site is getting more and more popular.
- Ma musique pogne pas.
- (Quebec, slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships
- J’ai beau aller dans les bars, je pogne pas pantoute.
- Try as I might at bars, I don't get lucky.
- Ce gars-là pogne vraiment, toutes les filles sont à ses pieds.
- That guy's a real lady-killer! All the girls are at his feet.
- J’ai beau aller dans les bars, je pogne pas pantoute.
- (Quebec, informal, reflexive) to take or acquire something (for oneself)
- C’est gratuit ! Pogne-toi-z-en une couple !
- It's free! Take a few!
- C’est tellement bon, cet album-là, je vais m’en pogner un c’est sûr !
- This album's really good! I'm definitely going to get it for myself.
- C’est gratuit ! Pogne-toi-z-en une couple !
- (Quebec, informal) to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively)
- Il s’est pogné le doigt dans la machine.
- He got his finger stuck in the machine.
- J’ai peur de me pogner les cheveux dans le filtreur de la piscine.
- I'm afraid of getting my hair stuck in the pool filtration system.
- Il s’est pogné le doigt dans la machine.
- (Quebec, slang) to argue, to quarrel (with someone), to butt heads (used either reflexively or with subject)
- C’est la troisième fois qu’il se pogne avec le prof cette semaine.
- That's the third time this week that he quarrels with the professor.
- Quand on se pogne avec quelqu’un à tout bout de champ, je pense que c’est mieux de prendre ses distances.
- When you're butting heads with someone and there's no end in sight, I think it's better to keep your distance.
- C’est la troisième fois qu’il se pogne avec le prof cette semaine.
- (Quebec, slang) to make out, or to make love or have sex (used reflexively)
- Depuis deux semaines, ma sœur passe ses soirées à se pogner avec son amoureux.
- For the past two weeks, my sister's been spending her evenings having sex with her lover.
- Depuis deux semaines, ma sœur passe ses soirées à se pogner avec son amoureux.
- (Louisiana, slang, transitive) to fool
Conjugation
Conjugation of pogner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | pognant /pɔ.ɲɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | pogné /pɔ.ɲe/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | pogner | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | pognant /pɔ.ɲɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognes /pɔɲ/ |
pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognons /pɔ.ɲɔ̃/ |
pognez /pɔ.ɲe/ |
pognent /pɔɲ/ |
imperfect | pognais /pɔ.ɲɛ/ |
pognais /pɔ.ɲɛ/ |
pognait /pɔ.ɲɛ/ |
pognions /pɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
pogniez /pɔ.ɲje/ |
pognaient /pɔ.ɲɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pognai /pɔ.ɲe/ |
pognas /pɔ.ɲa/ |
pogna /pɔ.ɲa/ |
pognâmes /pɔ.ɲam/ |
pognâtes /pɔ.ɲat/ |
pognèrent /pɔ.ɲɛʁ/ | |
future | pognerai /pɔɲ.ʁe/ |
pogneras /pɔɲ.ʁa/ |
pognera /pɔɲ.ʁa/ |
pognerons /pɔɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
pognerez /pɔɲ.ʁe/ |
pogneront /pɔɲ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pognerais /pɔɲ.ʁɛ/ |
pognerais /pɔɲ.ʁɛ/ |
pognerait /pɔɲ.ʁɛ/ |
pognerions /pɔ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pogneriez /pɔ.ɲə.ʁje/ |
pogneraient /pɔɲ.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 | pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognes /pɔɲ/ |
pogne /pɔɲ/ |
pognions /pɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
pogniez /pɔ.ɲje/ |
pognent /pɔɲ/ |
imperfect2 | pognasse /pɔ.ɲas/ |
pognasses /pɔ.ɲas/ |
pognât /pɔ.ɲa/ |
pognassions /pɔ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
pognassiez /pɔ.ɲa.sje/ |
pognassent /pɔ.ɲas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pogne /pɔɲ/ |
— | pognons /pɔ.ɲɔ̃/ |
pognez /pɔ.ɲe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “pogner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- pogner in la Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophone
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