caponner
French
Etymology
From capon (“coward”), from chapon (“capon, castrated cockerel”), from Italian capo, cappone, cognate with Dutch kapoen, kapuin, Spanish capón.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pɔ.ne/
Audio (file)
Verb
caponner
- (intransitive) to act cowardly, be yellow, chicken
- to cat (raise anchor to cathead)
Conjugation
Conjugation of caponner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | caponner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | caponnant /ka.pɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | caponné /ka.pɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | caponne /ka.pɔn/ | caponnes /ka.pɔn/ | caponne /ka.pɔn/ | caponnons /ka.pɔ.nɔ̃/ | caponnez /ka.pɔ.ne/ | caponnent /ka.pɔn/ |
| imperfect | caponnais /ka.pɔ.nɛ/ | caponnais /ka.pɔ.nɛ/ | caponnait /ka.pɔ.nɛ/ | caponnions /ka.pɔ.njɔ̃/ | caponniez /ka.pɔ.nje/ | caponnaient /ka.pɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | caponnai /ka.pɔ.ne/ | caponnas /ka.pɔ.na/ | caponna /ka.pɔ.na/ | caponnâmes /ka.pɔ.nam/ | caponnâtes /ka.pɔ.nat/ | caponnèrent /ka.pɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | caponnerai /ka.pɔn.ʁe/ | caponneras /ka.pɔn.ʁa/ | caponnera /ka.pɔn.ʁa/ | caponnerons /ka.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | caponnerez /ka.pɔn.ʁe/ | caponneront /ka.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | caponnerais /ka.pɔn.ʁɛ/ | caponnerais /ka.pɔn.ʁɛ/ | caponnerait /ka.pɔn.ʁɛ/ | caponnerions /ka.pɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | caponneriez /ka.pɔ.nə.ʁje/ | caponneraient /ka.pɔn.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 | caponne /ka.pɔn/ | caponnes /ka.pɔn/ | caponne /ka.pɔn/ | caponnions /ka.pɔ.njɔ̃/ | caponniez /ka.pɔ.nje/ | caponnent /ka.pɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | caponnasse /ka.pɔ.nas/ | caponnasses /ka.pɔ.nas/ | caponnât /ka.pɔ.na/ | caponnassions /ka.pɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | caponnassiez /ka.pɔ.na.sje/ | caponnassent /ka.pɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | caponne /ka.pɔn/ | — | caponnons /ka.pɔ.nɔ̃/ | caponnez /ka.pɔ.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
- caponnière
Further reading
- “caponner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.