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pigner

French, verb/pi.ɲe/

pigner is spelled P-I-G-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pigner is a French verb meaning “to cry, to whine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Geindre, pleurer, pleurnicher, râler, exprimer sa colère”.

What does pigner mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to cry, to whine

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Geindre, pleurer, pleurnicher, râler, exprimer sa colère.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pigner

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • pignant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • pigné participle past
  • pigne first-person indicative present
  • pignes indicative present second-person
  • pignons first-person indicative plural
  • pignez indicative plural present
  • pignent indicative plural present
  • pignais first-person imperfect indicative
  • pignait imperfect indicative singular
  • pignions first-person imperfect indicative
  • pigniez imperfect indicative plural
  • pignaient imperfect indicative plural
  • pignai first-person historic indicative
  • pignas historic indicative past
  • pigna historic indicative past
  • pignâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pigner?

  • /pi.ɲe/
  • \pi.ɲe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is pigner in French?

pigner appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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