prôner
French
Etymology
From prône (“sermon”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁo.ne/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Verb
prôner
- (transitive) to extol, praise, laud
- (transitive) to recommend, advocate
- 2022 April 11, Adrien Sénécat; William Audureau, “Marine Le Pen et Emmanuel Macron, deux programmes diamétralement opposés”, in Le Monde:
- Les deux finalistes du second tour partagent certaines convergences de vue sur l’économie. Ainsi, tous les deux prônent une politique économique tantôt libérale, tantôt interventionniste.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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- (archaic) to preach a sermon
Conjugation
Conjugation of prôner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | prôner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | prônant /pʁo.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | prôné /pʁo.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | prône /pʁon/ | prônes /pʁon/ | prône /pʁon/ | prônons /pʁo.nɔ̃/ | prônez /pʁo.ne/ | prônent /pʁon/ |
| imperfect | prônais /pʁo.nɛ/ | prônais /pʁo.nɛ/ | prônait /pʁo.nɛ/ | prônions /pʁo.njɔ̃/ | prôniez /pʁo.nje/ | prônaient /pʁo.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | prônai /pʁo.ne/ | prônas /pʁo.na/ | prôna /pʁo.na/ | prônâmes /pʁo.nam/ | prônâtes /pʁo.nat/ | prônèrent /pʁo.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | prônerai /pʁon.ʁe/ | prôneras /pʁon.ʁa/ | prônera /pʁon.ʁa/ | prônerons /pʁon.ʁɔ̃/ | prônerez /pʁon.ʁe/ | prôneront /pʁon.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | prônerais /pʁon.ʁɛ/ | prônerais /pʁon.ʁɛ/ | prônerait /pʁon.ʁɛ/ | prônerions /pʁo.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | prôneriez /pʁo.nə.ʁje/ | prôneraient /pʁon.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 | prône /pʁon/ | prônes /pʁon/ | prône /pʁon/ | prônions /pʁo.njɔ̃/ | prôniez /pʁo.nje/ | prônent /pʁon/ |
| imperfect2 | prônasse /pʁo.nas/ | prônasses /pʁo.nas/ | prônât /pʁo.na/ | prônassions /pʁo.na.sjɔ̃/ | prônassiez /pʁo.na.sje/ | prônassent /pʁo.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | prône /pʁon/ | — | prônons /pʁo.nɔ̃/ | prônez /pʁo.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). | |||||||
See also
- prêcher
Further reading
- “prôner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- perron
Norman
Etymology
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Verb
prôner
- (Jersey) to murmur
Synonyms
- murmuther