entonner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tɔ.ne/

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Verb

entonner

1. to strike up, burst into (chanting or singing)
2. to funnel (pour using a funnel)
3. to channel

Conjugation

Conjugation of entonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entonnant /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entonné /ɑ̃.tɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entonne /ɑ̃.tɔn/	entonnes /ɑ̃.tɔn/	entonne /ɑ̃.tɔn/	entonnons /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ̃/	entonnez /ɑ̃.tɔ.ne/	entonnent /ɑ̃.tɔn/
	imperfect	entonnais /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/	entonnais /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/	entonnait /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/	entonnions /ɑ̃.tɔ.njɔ̃/	entonniez /ɑ̃.tɔ.nje/	entonnaient /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	entonnai /ɑ̃.tɔ.ne/	entonnas /ɑ̃.tɔ.na/	entonna /ɑ̃.tɔ.na/	entonnâmes /ɑ̃.tɔ.nam/	entonnâtes /ɑ̃.tɔ.nat/	entonnèrent /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	entonnerai /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁe/	entonneras /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁa/	entonnera /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁa/	entonnerons /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/	entonnerez /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁe/	entonneront /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entonnerais /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɛ/	entonnerais /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɛ/	entonnerait /ɑ̃.tɔn.ʁɛ/	entonnerions /ɑ̃.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	entonneriez /ɑ̃.tɔ.nə.ʁje/	entonneraient /ɑ̃.tɔn.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	entonne /ɑ̃.tɔn/	entonnes /ɑ̃.tɔn/	entonne /ɑ̃.tɔn/	entonnions /ɑ̃.tɔ.njɔ̃/	entonniez /ɑ̃.tɔ.nje/	entonnent /ɑ̃.tɔn/
	imperfect2	entonnasse /ɑ̃.tɔ.nas/	entonnasses /ɑ̃.tɔ.nas/	entonnât /ɑ̃.tɔ.na/	entonnassions /ɑ̃.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	entonnassiez /ɑ̃.tɔ.na.sje/	entonnassent /ɑ̃.tɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entonne /ɑ̃.tɔn/	—	entonnons /ɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ̃/	entonnez /ɑ̃.tɔ.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

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