scander

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scandere, scandō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɑ̃.de/

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Verb

scander

1. (poetry) to scan
2. to chant (name, slogan etc.)
3. to enunciate (words) carefully; to articulate separately, accentuate
4. to emphasise (discourse, argument)

Conjugation

Conjugation of scander (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scander
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scandant /skɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scandé /skɑ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scande /skɑ̃d/	scandes /skɑ̃d/	scande /skɑ̃d/	scandons /skɑ̃.dɔ̃/	scandez /skɑ̃.de/	scandent /skɑ̃d/
	imperfect	scandais /skɑ̃.dɛ/	scandais /skɑ̃.dɛ/	scandait /skɑ̃.dɛ/	scandions /skɑ̃.djɔ̃/	scandiez /skɑ̃.dje/	scandaient /skɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	scandai /skɑ̃.de/	scandas /skɑ̃.da/	scanda /skɑ̃.da/	scandâmes /skɑ̃.dam/	scandâtes /skɑ̃.dat/	scandèrent /skɑ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	scanderai /skɑ̃.dʁe/	scanderas /skɑ̃.dʁa/	scandera /skɑ̃.dʁa/	scanderons /skɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	scanderez /skɑ̃.dʁe/	scanderont /skɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scanderais /skɑ̃.dʁɛ/	scanderais /skɑ̃.dʁɛ/	scanderait /skɑ̃.dʁɛ/	scanderions /skɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	scanderiez /skɑ̃.də.ʁje/	scanderaient /skɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	scande /skɑ̃d/	scandes /skɑ̃d/	scande /skɑ̃d/	scandions /skɑ̃.djɔ̃/	scandiez /skɑ̃.dje/	scandent /skɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	scandasse /skɑ̃.das/	scandasses /skɑ̃.das/	scandât /skɑ̃.da/	scandassions /skɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	scandassiez /skɑ̃.da.sje/	scandassent /skɑ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scande /skɑ̃d/	—	scandons /skɑ̃.dɔ̃/	scandez /skɑ̃.de/	—
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

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