cancaner
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑ̃.ka.ne/
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Verb
cancaner
- to gossip
- to quack
Conjugation
Conjugation of cancaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | cancaner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | cancanant /kɑ̃.ka.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | cancané /kɑ̃.ka.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | cancane /kɑ̃.kan/ | cancanes /kɑ̃.kan/ | cancane /kɑ̃.kan/ | cancanons /kɑ̃.ka.nɔ̃/ | cancanez /kɑ̃.ka.ne/ | cancanent /kɑ̃.kan/ |
imperfect | cancanais /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/ | cancanais /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/ | cancanait /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/ | cancanions /kɑ̃.ka.njɔ̃/ | cancaniez /kɑ̃.ka.nje/ | cancanaient /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | cancanai /kɑ̃.ka.ne/ | cancanas /kɑ̃.ka.na/ | cancana /kɑ̃.ka.na/ | cancanâmes /kɑ̃.ka.nam/ | cancanâtes /kɑ̃.ka.nat/ | cancanèrent /kɑ̃.ka.nɛʁ/ | |
future | cancanerai /kɑ̃.kan.ʁe/ | cancaneras /kɑ̃.kan.ʁa/ | cancanera /kɑ̃.kan.ʁa/ | cancanerons /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɔ̃/ | cancanerez /kɑ̃.kan.ʁe/ | cancaneront /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | cancanerais /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/ | cancanerais /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/ | cancanerait /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/ | cancanerions /kɑ̃.ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | cancaneriez /kɑ̃.ka.nə.ʁje/ | cancaneraient /kɑ̃.kan.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 | cancane /kɑ̃.kan/ | cancanes /kɑ̃.kan/ | cancane /kɑ̃.kan/ | cancanions /kɑ̃.ka.njɔ̃/ | cancaniez /kɑ̃.ka.nje/ | cancanent /kɑ̃.kan/ |
imperfect2 | cancanasse /kɑ̃.ka.nas/ | cancanasses /kɑ̃.ka.nas/ | cancanât /kɑ̃.ka.na/ | cancanassions /kɑ̃.ka.na.sjɔ̃/ | cancanassiez /kɑ̃.ka.na.sje/ | cancanassent /kɑ̃.ka.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | cancane /kɑ̃.kan/ | — | cancanons /kɑ̃.ka.nɔ̃/ | cancanez /kɑ̃.ka.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
- “cancaner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.