ligner

Danish

Verb

ligner

1. present of ligne

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ɲe/

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Verb

ligner

1. to line, make a line (mark with a line)
2. to line (add lines to a surface)
3. (nautical, rare) to fold up (a sail)
4. (fishing) to fish with a line

Conjugation

Conjugation of ligner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ligner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lignant /li.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ligné /li.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ligne /liɲ/	lignes /liɲ/	ligne /liɲ/	lignons /li.ɲɔ̃/	lignez /li.ɲe/	lignent /liɲ/
	imperfect	lignais /li.ɲɛ/	lignais /li.ɲɛ/	lignait /li.ɲɛ/	lignions /li.ɲjɔ̃/	ligniez /li.ɲje/	lignaient /li.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	lignai /li.ɲe/	lignas /li.ɲa/	ligna /li.ɲa/	lignâmes /li.ɲam/	lignâtes /li.ɲat/	lignèrent /li.ɲɛʁ/
	future	lignerai /li.ɲə.ʁe/	ligneras /li.ɲə.ʁa/	lignera /li.ɲə.ʁa/	lignerons /li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	lignerez /li.ɲə.ʁe/	ligneront /li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lignerais /li.ɲə.ʁɛ/	lignerais /li.ɲə.ʁɛ/	lignerait /li.ɲə.ʁɛ/	lignerions /li.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	ligneriez /li.ɲə.ʁje/	ligneraient /li.ɲə.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	ligne /liɲ/	lignes /liɲ/	ligne /liɲ/	lignions /li.ɲjɔ̃/	ligniez /li.ɲje/	lignent /liɲ/
	imperfect2	lignasse /li.ɲas/	lignasses /li.ɲas/	lignât /li.ɲa/	lignassions /li.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	lignassiez /li.ɲa.sje/	lignassent /li.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ligne /liɲ/	—	lignons /li.ɲɔ̃/	lignez /li.ɲe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• linger

Latin

Verb

ligner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of lignor

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ligner

1. present of ligne