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 | |||||
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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.