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daigner
daigner
French
Verb
daigner
- to deign, condescend
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:
- Daignez, ô ma dame, avoir souvenance de ce coeur, votre sujet, qui souffre tant d’angoisses pour l’amour de vous.
- Deign, O my lady, to have remembrance of this heart, your subject, who suffers so much distress for the love of you.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of daigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | daigner | avoir daigné | |||||
| gerund | en daignant | en ayant daigné | |||||
| present participle | daignant /dɛ.ɲɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | daigné /dɛ.ɲe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignes /dɛɲ/ |
daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ |
daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ |
daignent /dɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ |
daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ |
daignait /dɛ.ɲɛ/ |
daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ |
daignaient /dɛ.ɲɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | daignai /dɛ.ɲe/ |
daignas /dɛ.ɲa/ |
daigna /dɛ.ɲa/ |
daignâmes /dɛ.ɲam/ |
daignâtes /dɛ.ɲat/ |
daignèrent /dɛ.ɲɛʁ/ |
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| future | daignerai /dɛɲ.ʁe/ |
daigneras /dɛɲ.ʁa/ |
daignera /dɛɲ.ʁa/ |
daignerons /dɛɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
daignerez /dɛɲ.ʁe/ |
daigneront /dɛɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | daignerais /dɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
daignerais /dɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
daignerait /dɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
daignerions /dɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
daigneriez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ |
daigneraient /dɛɲ.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 | daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignes /dɛɲ/ |
daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ |
daignent /dɛɲ/ |
| imperfect1 |
daignasse /dɛ.ɲas/ |
daignasses /dɛ.ɲas/ |
daignât /dɛ.ɲa/ |
daignassions /dɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
daignassiez /dɛ.ɲa.sje/ |
daignassent /dɛ.ɲas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | daigne /dɛɲ/ |
— | daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ |
daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ |
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