sillonner
French
Etymology
sillon + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.jɔ.ne/
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Verb
sillonner
- to crisscross; cut across; furrow; to go back and forth (across)
- (figuratively) to leave traces of one's passage or way
Conjugation
Conjugation of sillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sillonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sillonnant /si.jɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sillonné /si.jɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | sillonne /si.jɔn/ | sillonnes /si.jɔn/ | sillonne /si.jɔn/ | sillonnons /si.jɔ.nɔ̃/ | sillonnez /si.jɔ.ne/ | sillonnent /si.jɔn/ |
| imperfect | sillonnais /si.jɔ.nɛ/ | sillonnais /si.jɔ.nɛ/ | sillonnait /si.jɔ.nɛ/ | sillonnions /si.jɔ.njɔ̃/ | sillonniez /si.jɔ.nje/ | sillonnaient /si.jɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sillonnai /si.jɔ.ne/ | sillonnas /si.jɔ.na/ | sillonna /si.jɔ.na/ | sillonnâmes /si.jɔ.nam/ | sillonnâtes /si.jɔ.nat/ | sillonnèrent /si.jɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | sillonnerai /si.jɔn.ʁe/ | sillonneras /si.jɔn.ʁa/ | sillonnera /si.jɔn.ʁa/ | sillonnerons /si.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | sillonnerez /si.jɔn.ʁe/ | sillonneront /si.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sillonnerais /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | sillonnerais /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | sillonnerait /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/ | sillonnerions /si.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | sillonneriez /si.jɔ.nə.ʁje/ | sillonneraient /si.jɔn.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 | sillonne /si.jɔn/ | sillonnes /si.jɔn/ | sillonne /si.jɔn/ | sillonnions /si.jɔ.njɔ̃/ | sillonniez /si.jɔ.nje/ | sillonnent /si.jɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | sillonnasse /si.jɔ.nas/ | sillonnasses /si.jɔ.nas/ | sillonnât /si.jɔ.na/ | sillonnassions /si.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | sillonnassiez /si.jɔ.na.sje/ | sillonnassent /si.jɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sillonne /si.jɔn/ | — | sillonnons /si.jɔ.nɔ̃/ | sillonnez /si.jɔ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- sillonné
Related terms
- sillon
Further reading
- “sillonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.