cautionner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.sjɔ.ne/
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Verb
cautionner
- (law) to post bail
- to support, condone, underwrite, endorse
Conjugation
Conjugation of cautionner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cautionner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cautionnant /ko.sjɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cautionné /ko.sjɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnes /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnons /ko.sjɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cautionnez /ko.sjɔ.ne/ |
cautionnent /ko.sjɔn/ |
| imperfect | cautionnais /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
cautionnais /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
cautionnait /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
cautionnions /ko.sjɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cautionniez /ko.sjɔ.nje/ |
cautionnaient /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cautionnai /ko.sjɔ.ne/ |
cautionnas /ko.sjɔ.na/ |
cautionna /ko.sjɔ.na/ |
cautionnâmes /ko.sjɔ.nam/ |
cautionnâtes /ko.sjɔ.nat/ |
cautionnèrent /ko.sjɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | cautionnerai /ko.sjɔn.ʁe/ |
cautionneras /ko.sjɔn.ʁa/ |
cautionnera /ko.sjɔn.ʁa/ |
cautionnerons /ko.sjɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
cautionnerez /ko.sjɔn.ʁe/ |
cautionneront /ko.sjɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cautionnerais /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cautionnerais /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cautionnerait /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cautionnerions /ko.sjɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cautionneriez /ko.sjɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
cautionneraient /ko.sjɔn.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 | cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnes /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnions /ko.sjɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cautionniez /ko.sjɔ.nje/ |
cautionnent /ko.sjɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | cautionnasse /ko.sjɔ.nas/ |
cautionnasses /ko.sjɔ.nas/ |
cautionnât /ko.sjɔ.na/ |
cautionnassions /ko.sjɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cautionnassiez /ko.sjɔ.na.sje/ |
cautionnassent /ko.sjɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
— | cautionnons /ko.sjɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cautionnez /ko.sjɔ.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
- “cautionner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.