tonner
English
Etymology
ton + -er or tonne + -er.
Noun
tonner (plural tonners)
- (in combination) A vehicle or other object having a specified tonnage, or weighing a specified number of tons.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
- There came a welcome interruption, however, when I heard the roar of wheels and rejoiced to see my Leyland three-tonner come rolling and heaving over the grass, heaped up with tools and sections of tubing, and bearing my foreman, Peters, and a very grimy assistant in front.
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Anagrams
- Renton
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin tonāre, present active infinitive of tonō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔ.ne/
tonner (file)
Verb
tonner (impersonal)
- (meteorology, impersonal) to thunder
- to thunder (to make a noise like thunder)
Conjugation
Conjugation of tonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tonnant /tɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tonné /tɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | tonne /tɔn/ | tonnes /tɔn/ | tonne /tɔn/ | tonnons /tɔ.nɔ̃/ | tonnez /tɔ.ne/ | tonnent /tɔn/ |
| imperfect | tonnais /tɔ.nɛ/ | tonnais /tɔ.nɛ/ | tonnait /tɔ.nɛ/ | tonnions /tɔ.njɔ̃/ | tonniez /tɔ.nje/ | tonnaient /tɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tonnai /tɔ.ne/ | tonnas /tɔ.na/ | tonna /tɔ.na/ | tonnâmes /tɔ.nam/ | tonnâtes /tɔ.nat/ | tonnèrent /tɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | tonnerai /tɔn.ʁe/ | tonneras /tɔn.ʁa/ | tonnera /tɔn.ʁa/ | tonnerons /tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | tonnerez /tɔn.ʁe/ | tonneront /tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tonnerais /tɔn.ʁɛ/ | tonnerais /tɔn.ʁɛ/ | tonnerait /tɔn.ʁɛ/ | tonnerions /tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tonneriez /tɔ.nə.ʁje/ | tonneraient /tɔn.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 | tonne /tɔn/ | tonnes /tɔn/ | tonne /tɔn/ | tonnions /tɔ.njɔ̃/ | tonniez /tɔ.nje/ | tonnent /tɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | tonnasse /tɔ.nas/ | tonnasses /tɔ.nas/ | tonnât /tɔ.na/ | tonnassions /tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | tonnassiez /tɔ.na.sje/ | tonnassent /tɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tonne /tɔn/ | — | tonnons /tɔ.nɔ̃/ | tonnez /tɔ.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- tonnerre
Further reading
- “tonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.