chaponner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.pɔ.ne/
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Verb
chaponner
- to caponize, castrate (a cockerel)
- (Louisiana) to castrate
- Tu vas te faire chaponner!
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (dated) to cut (the ears, etc.) off (of a hide, as part of tanning it)
Conjugation
Conjugation of chaponner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chaponner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chaponnant /ʃa.pɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chaponné /ʃa.pɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chaponne /ʃa.pɔn/ |
chaponnes /ʃa.pɔn/ |
chaponne /ʃa.pɔn/ |
chaponnons /ʃa.pɔ.nɔ̃/ |
chaponnez /ʃa.pɔ.ne/ |
chaponnent /ʃa.pɔn/ |
| imperfect | chaponnais /ʃa.pɔ.nɛ/ |
chaponnais /ʃa.pɔ.nɛ/ |
chaponnait /ʃa.pɔ.nɛ/ |
chaponnions /ʃa.pɔ.njɔ̃/ |
chaponniez /ʃa.pɔ.nje/ |
chaponnaient /ʃa.pɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chaponnai /ʃa.pɔ.ne/ |
chaponnas /ʃa.pɔ.na/ |
chaponna /ʃa.pɔ.na/ |
chaponnâmes /ʃa.pɔ.nam/ |
chaponnâtes /ʃa.pɔ.nat/ |
chaponnèrent /ʃa.pɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | chaponnerai /ʃa.pɔn.ʁe/ |
chaponneras /ʃa.pɔn.ʁa/ |
chaponnera /ʃa.pɔn.ʁa/ |
chaponnerons /ʃa.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
chaponnerez /ʃa.pɔn.ʁe/ |
chaponneront /ʃa.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chaponnerais /ʃa.pɔn.ʁɛ/ |
chaponnerais /ʃa.pɔn.ʁɛ/ |
chaponnerait /ʃa.pɔn.ʁɛ/ |
chaponnerions /ʃa.pɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chaponneriez /ʃa.pɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
chaponneraient /ʃa.pɔn.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 | chaponne /ʃa.pɔn/ |
chaponnes /ʃa.pɔn/ |
chaponne /ʃa.pɔn/ |
chaponnions /ʃa.pɔ.njɔ̃/ |
chaponniez /ʃa.pɔ.nje/ |
chaponnent /ʃa.pɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | chaponnasse /ʃa.pɔ.nas/ |
chaponnasses /ʃa.pɔ.nas/ |
chaponnât /ʃa.pɔ.na/ |
chaponnassions /ʃa.pɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
chaponnassiez /ʃa.pɔ.na.sje/ |
chaponnassent /ʃa.pɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chaponne /ʃa.pɔn/ |
— | chaponnons /ʃa.pɔ.nɔ̃/ |
chaponnez /ʃa.pɔ.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
- “chaponner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.