niaiser

French

Etymology

From niais.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njɛ.ze/, /nje.ze/

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Verb

niaiser

1. (Quebec) to kid
2. (Quebec) to act foolishly

Conjugation

Conjugation of niaiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	niaiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	niaisant /njɛ.zɑ̃/ or /nje.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		niaisé /njɛ.ze/ or /nje.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	niaise /njɛz/	niaises /njɛz/	niaise /njɛz/	niaisons /njɛ.zɔ̃/ or /nje.zɔ̃/	niaisez /njɛ.ze/ or /nje.ze/	niaisent /njɛz/
	imperfect	niaisais /njɛ.zɛ/ or /nje.zɛ/	niaisais /njɛ.zɛ/ or /nje.zɛ/	niaisait /njɛ.zɛ/ or /nje.zɛ/	niaisions /njɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /nje.zjɔ̃/	niaisiez /njɛ.zje/ or /nje.zje/	niaisaient /njɛ.zɛ/ or /nje.zɛ/
	past historic2	niaisai /njɛ.ze/ or /nje.ze/	niaisas /njɛ.za/ or /nje.za/	niaisa /njɛ.za/ or /nje.za/	niaisâmes /njɛ.zam/ or /nje.zam/	niaisâtes /njɛ.zat/ or /nje.zat/	niaisèrent /njɛ.zɛʁ/ or /nje.zɛʁ/
	future	niaiserai /njɛz.ʁe/	niaiseras /njɛz.ʁa/	niaisera /njɛz.ʁa/	niaiserons /njɛz.ʁɔ̃/	niaiserez /njɛz.ʁe/	niaiseront /njɛz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	niaiserais /njɛz.ʁɛ/	niaiserais /njɛz.ʁɛ/	niaiserait /njɛz.ʁɛ/	niaiserions /njɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /nje.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	niaiseriez /njɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /nje.zə.ʁje/	niaiseraient /njɛz.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	niaise /njɛz/	niaises /njɛz/	niaise /njɛz/	niaisions /njɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /nje.zjɔ̃/	niaisiez /njɛ.zje/ or /nje.zje/	niaisent /njɛz/
	imperfect2	niaisasse /njɛ.zas/ or /nje.zas/	niaisasses /njɛ.zas/ or /nje.zas/	niaisât /njɛ.za/ or /nje.za/	niaisassions /njɛ.za.sjɔ̃/ or /nje.za.sjɔ̃/	niaisassiez /njɛ.za.sje/ or /nje.za.sje/	niaisassent /njɛ.zas/ or /nje.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	niaise /njɛz/	—	niaisons /njɛ.zɔ̃/ or /nje.zɔ̃/	niaisez /njɛ.ze/ or /nje.ze/	—
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

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