cancaner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.ka.ne/

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Verb

cancaner

1. to gossip
2. to quack

Conjugation

Conjugation of cancaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cancaner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cancanant /kɑ̃.ka.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cancané /kɑ̃.ka.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cancane /kɑ̃.kan/	cancanes /kɑ̃.kan/	cancane /kɑ̃.kan/	cancanons /kɑ̃.ka.nɔ̃/	cancanez /kɑ̃.ka.ne/	cancanent /kɑ̃.kan/
	imperfect	cancanais /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/	cancanais /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/	cancanait /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/	cancanions /kɑ̃.ka.njɔ̃/	cancaniez /kɑ̃.ka.nje/	cancanaient /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/
	past historic2	cancanai /kɑ̃.ka.ne/	cancanas /kɑ̃.ka.na/	cancana /kɑ̃.ka.na/	cancanâmes /kɑ̃.ka.nam/	cancanâtes /kɑ̃.ka.nat/	cancanèrent /kɑ̃.ka.nɛʁ/
	future	cancanerai /kɑ̃.kan.ʁe/	cancaneras /kɑ̃.kan.ʁa/	cancanera /kɑ̃.kan.ʁa/	cancanerons /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɔ̃/	cancanerez /kɑ̃.kan.ʁe/	cancaneront /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cancanerais /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/	cancanerais /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/	cancanerait /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/	cancanerions /kɑ̃.ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cancaneriez /kɑ̃.ka.nə.ʁje/	cancaneraient /kɑ̃.kan.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	cancane /kɑ̃.kan/	cancanes /kɑ̃.kan/	cancane /kɑ̃.kan/	cancanions /kɑ̃.ka.njɔ̃/	cancaniez /kɑ̃.ka.nje/	cancanent /kɑ̃.kan/
	imperfect2	cancanasse /kɑ̃.ka.nas/	cancanasses /kɑ̃.ka.nas/	cancanât /kɑ̃.ka.na/	cancanassions /kɑ̃.ka.na.sjɔ̃/	cancanassiez /kɑ̃.ka.na.sje/	cancanassent /kɑ̃.ka.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cancane /kɑ̃.kan/	—	cancanons /kɑ̃.ka.nɔ̃/	cancanez /kɑ̃.ka.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

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