bétonner

French

Etymology

From béton +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

bétonner

1. to concrete (cover with concrete)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bétonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bétonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bétonnant /be.tɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bétonné /be.tɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bétonne /be.tɔn/	bétonnes /be.tɔn/	bétonne /be.tɔn/	bétonnons /be.tɔ.nɔ̃/	bétonnez /be.tɔ.ne/	bétonnent /be.tɔn/
	imperfect	bétonnais /be.tɔ.nɛ/	bétonnais /be.tɔ.nɛ/	bétonnait /be.tɔ.nɛ/	bétonnions /be.tɔ.njɔ̃/	bétonniez /be.tɔ.nje/	bétonnaient /be.tɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	bétonnai /be.tɔ.ne/	bétonnas /be.tɔ.na/	bétonna /be.tɔ.na/	bétonnâmes /be.tɔ.nam/	bétonnâtes /be.tɔ.nat/	bétonnèrent /be.tɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	bétonnerai /be.tɔn.ʁe/	bétonneras /be.tɔn.ʁa/	bétonnera /be.tɔn.ʁa/	bétonnerons /be.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/	bétonnerez /be.tɔn.ʁe/	bétonneront /be.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bétonnerais /be.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bétonnerais /be.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bétonnerait /be.tɔn.ʁɛ/	bétonnerions /be.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	bétonneriez /be.tɔ.nə.ʁje/	bétonneraient /be.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	bétonne /be.tɔn/	bétonnes /be.tɔn/	bétonne /be.tɔn/	bétonnions /be.tɔ.njɔ̃/	bétonniez /be.tɔ.nje/	bétonnent /be.tɔn/
	imperfect2	bétonnasse /be.tɔ.nas/	bétonnasses /be.tɔ.nas/	bétonnât /be.tɔ.na/	bétonnassions /be.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	bétonnassiez /be.tɔ.na.sje/	bétonnassent /be.tɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bétonne /be.tɔn/	—	bétonnons /be.tɔ.nɔ̃/	bétonnez /be.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

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

Anagrams

• bretonne, Bretonne