cautionner

French

Etymology

From caution +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.sjɔ.ne/

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Verb

cautionner

1. (law) to post bail
2. to support, condone, underwrite, endorse

Conjugation

Conjugation of cautionner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cautionner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cautionnant /ko.sjɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cautionné /ko.sjɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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/
	past historic2	cautionnai /ko.sjɔ.ne/	cautionnas /ko.sjɔ.na/	cautionna /ko.sjɔ.na/	cautionnâmes /ko.sjɔ.nam/	cautionnâtes /ko.sjɔ.nat/	cautionnèrent /ko.sjɔ.nɛʁ/
	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/
	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/
(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	cautionne /ko.sjɔn/	cautionnes /ko.sjɔn/	cautionne /ko.sjɔn/	cautionnions /ko.sjɔ.njɔ̃/	cautionniez /ko.sjɔ.nje/	cautionnent /ko.sjɔn/
	imperfect2	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/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cautionne /ko.sjɔn/	—	cautionnons /ko.sjɔ.nɔ̃/	cautionnez /ko.sjɔ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “cautionner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.