pieuter

French

Etymology

From pieu (“bed (slang)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjø.te/

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Verb

pieuter

1. (slang, intransitive) to sleep (in bed)

   Depuis que je me suis fait virer par mes vieux, je pieute chez ma copine.

   Since I got kicked out by my folks, I crash at my girlfriend's place.

2. (slang, reflexive) to go to bed; to crash out, hit the hay

   Bonne nuit à tous, je vais me pieuter !

   Goodnight everyone, I'm going to hit the hay!

Conjugation

Conjugation of pieuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pieuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pieutant /pjø.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pieuté /pjø.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pieute /pjøt/	pieutes /pjøt/	pieute /pjøt/	pieutons /pjø.tɔ̃/	pieutez /pjø.te/	pieutent /pjøt/
	imperfect	pieutais /pjø.tɛ/	pieutais /pjø.tɛ/	pieutait /pjø.tɛ/	pieutions /pjø.tjɔ̃/	pieutiez /pjø.tje/	pieutaient /pjø.tɛ/
	past historic2	pieutai /pjø.te/	pieutas /pjø.ta/	pieuta /pjø.ta/	pieutâmes /pjø.tam/	pieutâtes /pjø.tat/	pieutèrent /pjø.tɛʁ/
	future	pieuterai /pjø.tʁe/	pieuteras /pjø.tʁa/	pieutera /pjø.tʁa/	pieuterons /pjø.tʁɔ̃/	pieuterez /pjø.tʁe/	pieuteront /pjø.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pieuterais /pjø.tʁɛ/	pieuterais /pjø.tʁɛ/	pieuterait /pjø.tʁɛ/	pieuterions /pjø.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	pieuteriez /pjø.tə.ʁje/	pieuteraient /pjø.tʁɛ/
(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	pieute /pjøt/	pieutes /pjøt/	pieute /pjøt/	pieutions /pjø.tjɔ̃/	pieutiez /pjø.tje/	pieutent /pjøt/
	imperfect2	pieutasse /pjø.tas/	pieutasses /pjø.tas/	pieutât /pjø.ta/	pieutassions /pjø.ta.sjɔ̃/	pieutassiez /pjø.ta.sje/	pieutassent /pjø.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pieute /pjøt/	—	pieutons /pjø.tɔ̃/	pieutez /pjø.te/	—
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).

Derived terms

• pieu

Further reading

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