cartonner
French
Etymology
From carton (“cardboard”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.tɔ.ne/
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Verb
cartonner
- (transitive) to cover with cardboard; (of a book) to print in hardcover
- (transitive, colloquial) to attack, vigorously critique
- (transitive, slang, sexuality) to possess sexually
- (intransitive, colloquial) to hit the jackpot
- (intransitive, colloquial) to be in danger, exposed, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) to get into a collision, a car accident
Conjugation
Conjugation of cartonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cartonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cartonnant /kaʁ.tɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cartonné /kaʁ.tɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cartonne /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
cartonnes /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
cartonne /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
cartonnons /kaʁ.tɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cartonnez /kaʁ.tɔ.ne/ |
cartonnent /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
| imperfect | cartonnais /kaʁ.tɔ.nɛ/ |
cartonnais /kaʁ.tɔ.nɛ/ |
cartonnait /kaʁ.tɔ.nɛ/ |
cartonnions /kaʁ.tɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cartonniez /kaʁ.tɔ.nje/ |
cartonnaient /kaʁ.tɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cartonnai /kaʁ.tɔ.ne/ |
cartonnas /kaʁ.tɔ.na/ |
cartonna /kaʁ.tɔ.na/ |
cartonnâmes /kaʁ.tɔ.nam/ |
cartonnâtes /kaʁ.tɔ.nat/ |
cartonnèrent /kaʁ.tɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | cartonnerai /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁe/ |
cartonneras /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁa/ |
cartonnera /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁa/ |
cartonnerons /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
cartonnerez /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁe/ |
cartonneront /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cartonnerais /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cartonnerais /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cartonnerait /kaʁ.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cartonnerions /kaʁ.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cartonneriez /kaʁ.tɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
cartonneraient /kaʁ.tɔn.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 | cartonne /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
cartonnes /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
cartonne /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
cartonnions /kaʁ.tɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cartonniez /kaʁ.tɔ.nje/ |
cartonnent /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | cartonnasse /kaʁ.tɔ.nas/ |
cartonnasses /kaʁ.tɔ.nas/ |
cartonnât /kaʁ.tɔ.na/ |
cartonnassions /kaʁ.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cartonnassiez /kaʁ.tɔ.na.sje/ |
cartonnassent /kaʁ.tɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cartonne /kaʁ.tɔn/ |
— | cartonnons /kaʁ.tɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cartonnez /kaʁ.tɔ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “cartonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.