souligner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.li.ɲe/
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Verb
souligner
- (transitive) to underscore, to underline (draw a line under)
- (transitive) to highlight, to emphasize (put emphasis on)
- Synonyms: mettre en relief, mettre en évidence
Conjugation
Conjugation of souligner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | souligner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | soulignant /su.li.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souligné /su.li.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | souligne /su.liɲ/ |
soulignes /su.liɲ/ |
souligne /su.liɲ/ |
soulignons /su.li.ɲɔ̃/ |
soulignez /su.li.ɲe/ |
soulignent /su.liɲ/ |
| imperfect | soulignais /su.li.ɲɛ/ |
soulignais /su.li.ɲɛ/ |
soulignait /su.li.ɲɛ/ |
soulignions /su.li.ɲjɔ̃/ |
souligniez /su.li.ɲje/ |
soulignaient /su.li.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | soulignai /su.li.ɲe/ |
soulignas /su.li.ɲa/ |
souligna /su.li.ɲa/ |
soulignâmes /su.li.ɲam/ |
soulignâtes /su.li.ɲat/ |
soulignèrent /su.li.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | soulignerai /su.li.ɲə.ʁe/ |
souligneras /su.li.ɲə.ʁa/ |
soulignera /su.li.ɲə.ʁa/ |
soulignerons /su.li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
soulignerez /su.li.ɲə.ʁe/ |
souligneront /su.li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | soulignerais /su.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
soulignerais /su.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
soulignerait /su.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
soulignerions /su.li.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souligneriez /su.li.ɲə.ʁje/ |
souligneraient /su.li.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 | souligne /su.liɲ/ |
soulignes /su.liɲ/ |
souligne /su.liɲ/ |
soulignions /su.li.ɲjɔ̃/ |
souligniez /su.li.ɲje/ |
soulignent /su.liɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | soulignasse /su.li.ɲas/ |
soulignasses /su.li.ɲas/ |
soulignât /su.li.ɲa/ |
soulignassions /su.li.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
soulignassiez /su.li.ɲa.sje/ |
soulignassent /su.li.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souligne /su.liɲ/ |
— | soulignons /su.li.ɲɔ̃/ |
soulignez /su.li.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). | |||||||
See also
Further reading
- “souligner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.