parrainer
French
Etymology
parrain (“godfather”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ʁɛ.ne/, /pa.ʁe.ne/
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Verb
parrainer
- to mentor
- to sponsor
Conjugation
Conjugation of parrainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | parrainer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | parrainant /pa.ʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | parrainé /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ | parraines /pa.ʁɛn/ | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ | parrainons /pa.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nɔ̃/ | parrainez /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.ne/ | parrainent /pa.ʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | parrainais /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/ | parrainais /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/ | parrainait /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/ | parrainions /pa.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.njɔ̃/ | parrainiez /pa.ʁɛ.nje/ or /pa.ʁe.nje/ | parrainaient /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | parrainai /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.ne/ | parrainas /pa.ʁɛ.na/ or /pa.ʁe.na/ | parraina /pa.ʁɛ.na/ or /pa.ʁe.na/ | parrainâmes /pa.ʁɛ.nam/ or /pa.ʁe.nam/ | parrainâtes /pa.ʁɛ.nat/ or /pa.ʁe.nat/ | parrainèrent /pa.ʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | parrainerai /pa.ʁɛn.ʁe/ | parraineras /pa.ʁɛn.ʁa/ | parrainera /pa.ʁɛn.ʁa/ | parrainerons /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | parrainerez /pa.ʁɛn.ʁe/ | parraineront /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | parrainerais /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ | parrainerais /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ | parrainerait /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ | parrainerions /pa.ʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | parraineriez /pa.ʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /pa.ʁe.nə.ʁje/ | parraineraient /pa.ʁɛn.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 | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ | parraines /pa.ʁɛn/ | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ | parrainions /pa.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.njɔ̃/ | parrainiez /pa.ʁɛ.nje/ or /pa.ʁe.nje/ | parrainent /pa.ʁɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | parrainasse /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ or /pa.ʁe.nas/ | parrainasses /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ or /pa.ʁe.nas/ | parrainât /pa.ʁɛ.na/ or /pa.ʁe.na/ | parrainassions /pa.ʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.na.sjɔ̃/ | parrainassiez /pa.ʁɛ.na.sje/ or /pa.ʁe.na.sje/ | parrainassent /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ or /pa.ʁe.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ | — | parrainons /pa.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nɔ̃/ | parrainez /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.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). | |||||||
Coordinate terms
- marrainer
Related terms
- parrainé
Further reading
- “parrainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.