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cantonner
cantonner
French
Verb
cantonner
- (military) to station; billet (troops)
- (intransitive, military) to be stationed, be billeted
- (transitive) to confine (someone to)
- (reflexive, with dans) to take refuge (in)
- (reflexive, with à, dans) to restrict oneself (to); focus (on)
- (reflexive, with à, dans) be restricted, confined
- (reflexive, military, with dans) to fortify, set up or establish defenses
Conjugation
Conjugation of cantonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cantonner | avoir cantonné | |||||
| gerund | en cantonnant | en ayant cantonné | |||||
| present participle | cantonnant /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | cantonné /kɑ̃.tɔ.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 | cantonne /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
cantonnes /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
cantonne /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
cantonnons /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cantonnez /kɑ̃.tɔ.ne/ |
cantonnent /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
| imperfect | cantonnais /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/ |
cantonnais /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/ |
cantonnait /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/ |
cantonnions /kɑ̃.tɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cantonniez /kɑ̃.tɔ.nje/ |
cantonnaient /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cantonnai /kɑ̃.tɔ.ne/ |
cantonnas /kɑ̃.tɔ.na/ |
cantonna /kɑ̃.tɔ.na/ |
cantonnâmes /kɑ̃.tɔ.nam/ |
cantonnâtes /kɑ̃.tɔ.nat/ |
cantonnèrent /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | cantonnerai /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁe/ |
cantonneras /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁa/ |
cantonnera /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁa/ |
cantonnerons /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
cantonnerez /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁe/ |
cantonneront /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cantonnerais /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cantonnerais /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cantonnerait /kɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cantonnerions /kɑ̃.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cantonneriez /kɑ̃.tɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
cantonneraient /kɑ̃.tɔn.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 | cantonne /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
cantonnes /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
cantonne /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
cantonnions /kɑ̃.tɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cantonniez /kɑ̃.tɔ.nje/ |
cantonnent /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
| imperfect1 |
cantonnasse /kɑ̃.tɔ.nas/ |
cantonnasses /kɑ̃.tɔ.nas/ |
cantonnât /kɑ̃.tɔ.na/ |
cantonnassions /kɑ̃.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cantonnassiez /kɑ̃.tɔ.na.sje/ |
cantonnassent /kɑ̃.tɔ.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 | – | |
| — | cantonne /kɑ̃.tɔn/ |
— | cantonnons /kɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cantonnez /kɑ̃.tɔ.ne/ |
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