assigner
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
assigner (plural assigners)
- One who, or that which, assigns.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French assigner, borrowed from Latin assignāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.si.ɲe/
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Verb
assigner
- to assign
Conjugation
Conjugation of assigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | assigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assignant /a.si.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assigné /a.si.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | assigne /a.siɲ/ |
assignes /a.siɲ/ |
assigne /a.siɲ/ |
assignons /a.si.ɲɔ̃/ |
assignez /a.si.ɲe/ |
assignent /a.siɲ/ |
| imperfect | assignais /a.si.ɲɛ/ |
assignais /a.si.ɲɛ/ |
assignait /a.si.ɲɛ/ |
assignions /a.si.ɲjɔ̃/ |
assigniez /a.si.ɲje/ |
assignaient /a.si.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assignai /a.si.ɲe/ |
assignas /a.si.ɲa/ |
assigna /a.si.ɲa/ |
assignâmes /a.si.ɲam/ |
assignâtes /a.si.ɲat/ |
assignèrent /a.si.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | assignerai /a.si.ɲə.ʁe/ |
assigneras /a.si.ɲə.ʁa/ |
assignera /a.si.ɲə.ʁa/ |
assignerons /a.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
assignerez /a.si.ɲə.ʁe/ |
assigneront /a.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assignerais /a.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
assignerais /a.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
assignerait /a.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
assignerions /a.si.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assigneriez /a.si.ɲə.ʁje/ |
assigneraient /a.si.ɲə.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 | assigne /a.siɲ/ |
assignes /a.siɲ/ |
assigne /a.siɲ/ |
assignions /a.si.ɲjɔ̃/ |
assigniez /a.si.ɲje/ |
assignent /a.siɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | assignasse /a.si.ɲas/ |
assignasses /a.si.ɲas/ |
assignât /a.si.ɲa/ |
assignassions /a.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
assignassiez /a.si.ɲa.sje/ |
assignassent /a.si.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assigne /a.siɲ/ |
— | assignons /a.si.ɲɔ̃/ |
assignez /a.si.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “assigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
assigner
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of assignō
Old French
Alternative forms
- asigner, assiner, asener, assener
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin assignō.
Verb
assigner
- to assign
Descendants
References
- “assign, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “assīgnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.