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cautionner
cautionner
French
Verb
cautionner
- (law) to post bail
- to support
Conjugation
Conjugation of cautionner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cautionner | avoir cautionné | |||||
| gerund | en cautionnant | en ayant cautionné | |||||
| present participle | cautionnant /ko.sjɔ.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | cautionné /ko.sjɔ.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnes /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnons /ko.sjɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cautionnez /ko.sjɔ.ne/ |
cautionnent /ko.sjɔn/ |
| imperfect | cautionnais /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
cautionnais /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
cautionnait /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
cautionnions /ko.sjɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cautionniez /ko.sjɔ.nje/ |
cautionnaient /ko.sjɔ.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cautionnai /ko.sjɔ.ne/ |
cautionnas /ko.sjɔ.na/ |
cautionna /ko.sjɔ.na/ |
cautionnâmes /ko.sjɔ.nam/ |
cautionnâtes /ko.sjɔ.nat/ |
cautionnèrent /ko.sjɔ.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | cautionnerai /ko.sjɔn.ʁe/ |
cautionneras /ko.sjɔn.ʁa/ |
cautionnera /ko.sjɔn.ʁa/ |
cautionnerons /ko.sjɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
cautionnerez /ko.sjɔn.ʁe/ |
cautionneront /ko.sjɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cautionnerais /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cautionnerais /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cautionnerait /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cautionnerions /ko.sjɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cautionneriez /ko.sjɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
cautionneraient /ko.sjɔn.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnes /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
cautionnions /ko.sjɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cautionniez /ko.sjɔ.nje/ |
cautionnent /ko.sjɔn/ |
| imperfect1 |
cautionnasse /ko.sjɔ.nas/ |
cautionnasses /ko.sjɔ.nas/ |
cautionnât /ko.sjɔ.na/ |
cautionnassions /ko.sjɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cautionnassiez /ko.sjɔ.na.sje/ |
cautionnassent /ko.sjɔ.nas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | cautionne /ko.sjɔn/ |
— | cautionnons /ko.sjɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cautionnez /ko.sjɔ.ne/ |
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