scander
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin scandere, scandō.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
scander
- (poetry) to scan
- to chant (name, slogan etc.)
- to enunciate (words) carefully; to articulate separately, accentuate
- to emphasise (discourse, argument)
Conjugation edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “scander”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.