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régner
régner
See also: regner
French
Verb
régner
- to reign
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written régner-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written règner-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of régner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | régner | avoir régné | |||||
| gerund | en régnant | en ayant régné | |||||
| present participle | régnant /ʁe.ɲɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | régné /ʁe.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 | règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
règnes /ʁɛɲ/ |
règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
régnons /ʁe.ɲɔ̃/ |
régnez /ʁe.ɲe/ |
règnent /ʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | régnais /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
régnais /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
régnait /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
régnions /ʁe.ɲjɔ̃/ |
régniez /ʁe.ɲje/ |
régnaient /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | régnai /ʁe.ɲe/ |
régnas /ʁe.ɲa/ |
régna /ʁe.ɲa/ |
régnâmes /ʁe.ɲam/ |
régnâtes /ʁe.ɲat/ |
régnèrent /ʁe.ɲɛʁ/ |
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| future | règnerai or régnerai /ʁɛɲ.ʁe/ |
règneras or régneras /ʁɛɲ.ʁa/ |
règnera or régnera /ʁɛɲ.ʁa/ |
règnerons or régnerons /ʁɛɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
règnerez or régnerez /ʁɛɲ.ʁe/ |
règneront or régneront /ʁɛɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | règnerais or régnerais /ʁɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
règnerais or régnerais /ʁɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
règnerait or régnerait /ʁɛɲ.ʁɛ/ |
règnerions or régnerions /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
règneriez or régneriez /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ |
règneraient or régneraient /ʁɛɲ.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 | règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
règnes /ʁɛɲ/ |
règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
régnions /ʁe.ɲjɔ̃/ |
régniez /ʁe.ɲje/ |
règnent /ʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect1 |
régnasse /ʁe.ɲas/ |
régnasses /ʁe.ɲas/ |
régnât /ʁe.ɲa/ |
régnassions /ʁe.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
régnassiez /ʁe.ɲa.sje/ |
régnassent /ʁe.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 | – | |
| — | règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
— | régnons /ʁe.ɲɔ̃/ |
régnez /ʁe.ɲe/ |
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