cordonner

French

Etymology

From cordon.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cordonner

1. (transitive) to twist into the form of a rope

Conjugation

Conjugation of cordonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cordonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cordonnant /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cordonné /kɔʁ.dɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cordonne /kɔʁ.dɔn/	cordonnes /kɔʁ.dɔn/	cordonne /kɔʁ.dɔn/	cordonnons /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɔ̃/	cordonnez /kɔʁ.dɔ.ne/	cordonnent /kɔʁ.dɔn/
	imperfect	cordonnais /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/	cordonnais /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/	cordonnait /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/	cordonnions /kɔʁ.dɔ.njɔ̃/	cordonniez /kɔʁ.dɔ.nje/	cordonnaient /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	cordonnai /kɔʁ.dɔ.ne/	cordonnas /kɔʁ.dɔ.na/	cordonna /kɔʁ.dɔ.na/	cordonnâmes /kɔʁ.dɔ.nam/	cordonnâtes /kɔʁ.dɔ.nat/	cordonnèrent /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	cordonnerai /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁe/	cordonneras /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁa/	cordonnera /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁa/	cordonnerons /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/	cordonnerez /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁe/	cordonneront /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cordonnerais /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɛ/	cordonnerais /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɛ/	cordonnerait /kɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɛ/	cordonnerions /kɔʁ.dɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cordonneriez /kɔʁ.dɔ.nə.ʁje/	cordonneraient /kɔʁ.dɔn.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	cordonne /kɔʁ.dɔn/	cordonnes /kɔʁ.dɔn/	cordonne /kɔʁ.dɔn/	cordonnions /kɔʁ.dɔ.njɔ̃/	cordonniez /kɔʁ.dɔ.nje/	cordonnent /kɔʁ.dɔn/
	imperfect2	cordonnasse /kɔʁ.dɔ.nas/	cordonnasses /kɔʁ.dɔ.nas/	cordonnât /kɔʁ.dɔ.na/	cordonnassions /kɔʁ.dɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	cordonnassiez /kɔʁ.dɔ.na.sje/	cordonnassent /kɔʁ.dɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cordonne /kɔʁ.dɔn/	—	cordonnons /kɔʁ.dɔ.nɔ̃/	cordonnez /kɔʁ.dɔ.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).

Derived terms

• cordonnage

Further reading

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