materner
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin māternus (“relating to a mother, maternal”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.tɛʁ.ne/
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Verb
materner
- (transitive) to mother, mollycoddle
Conjugation
Conjugation of materner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | materner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | maternant /ma.tɛʁ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | materné /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternes /ma.tɛʁn/ |
materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/ |
maternez /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ |
maternent /ma.tɛʁn/ |
| imperfect | maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
maternait /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/ |
materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/ |
maternaient /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | maternai /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ |
maternas /ma.tɛʁ.na/ |
materna /ma.tɛʁ.na/ |
maternâmes /ma.tɛʁ.nam/ |
maternâtes /ma.tɛʁ.nat/ |
maternèrent /ma.tɛʁ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | maternerai /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
materneras /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
maternera /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
maternerons /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
maternerez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
materneront /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
maternerait /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
maternerions /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
materneriez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁje/ |
materneraient /ma.tɛʁ.nə.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 | materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternes /ma.tɛʁn/ |
materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/ |
materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/ |
maternent /ma.tɛʁn/ |
| imperfect2 | maternasse /ma.tɛʁ.nas/ |
maternasses /ma.tɛʁ.nas/ |
maternât /ma.tɛʁ.na/ |
maternassions /ma.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
maternassiez /ma.tɛʁ.na.sje/ |
maternassent /ma.tɛʁ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
— | maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/ |
maternez /ma.tɛʁ.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
- “materner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.