ligner
Danish
Verb
ligner
- present of ligne
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.ɲe/
Audio (file)
Verb
ligner
- to line, make a line (mark with a line)
- to line (add lines to a surface)
- (nautical, rare) to fold up (a sail)
- (fishing) to fish with a line
Conjugation
Conjugation of ligner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ligner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | lignant /li.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ligné /li.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ligne /liɲ/ | lignes /liɲ/ | ligne /liɲ/ | lignons /li.ɲɔ̃/ | lignez /li.ɲe/ | lignent /liɲ/ |
| imperfect | lignais /li.ɲɛ/ | lignais /li.ɲɛ/ | lignait /li.ɲɛ/ | lignions /li.ɲjɔ̃/ | ligniez /li.ɲje/ | lignaient /li.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lignai /li.ɲe/ | lignas /li.ɲa/ | ligna /li.ɲa/ | lignâmes /li.ɲam/ | lignâtes /li.ɲat/ | lignèrent /li.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | lignerai /li.ɲə.ʁe/ | ligneras /li.ɲə.ʁa/ | lignera /li.ɲə.ʁa/ | lignerons /li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | lignerez /li.ɲə.ʁe/ | ligneront /li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | lignerais /li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | lignerais /li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | lignerait /li.ɲə.ʁɛ/ | lignerions /li.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ligneriez /li.ɲə.ʁje/ | ligneraient /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 | ligne /liɲ/ | lignes /liɲ/ | ligne /liɲ/ | lignions /li.ɲjɔ̃/ | ligniez /li.ɲje/ | lignent /liɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | lignasse /li.ɲas/ | lignasses /li.ɲas/ | lignât /li.ɲa/ | lignassions /li.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ | lignassiez /li.ɲa.sje/ | lignassent /li.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ligne /liɲ/ | — | lignons /li.ɲɔ̃/ | lignez /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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ligner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- linger
Latin
Verb
ligner
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of lignor
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
ligner
- present of ligne