commissionner

French

Etymology

From commission +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.ne/

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Verb

commissionner

1. to commission (an officer, ship etc)

Conjugation

Conjugation of commissionner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	commissionner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	commissionnant /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		commissionné /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	commissionne /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	commissionnes /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	commissionne /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	commissionnons /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɔ̃/	commissionnez /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.ne/	commissionnent /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/
	imperfect	commissionnais /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɛ/	commissionnais /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɛ/	commissionnait /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɛ/	commissionnions /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.njɔ̃/	commissionniez /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nje/	commissionnaient /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	commissionnai /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.ne/	commissionnas /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.na/	commissionna /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.na/	commissionnâmes /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nam/	commissionnâtes /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nat/	commissionnèrent /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	commissionnerai /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁe/	commissionneras /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁa/	commissionnera /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁa/	commissionnerons /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁɔ̃/	commissionnerez /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁe/	commissionneront /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	commissionnerais /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁɛ/	commissionnerais /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁɛ/	commissionnerait /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.ʁɛ/	commissionnerions /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	commissionneriez /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nə.ʁje/	commissionneraient /kɔ.mi.sjɔn.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	commissionne /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	commissionnes /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	commissionne /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	commissionnions /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.njɔ̃/	commissionniez /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nje/	commissionnent /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/
	imperfect2	commissionnasse /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nas/	commissionnasses /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nas/	commissionnât /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.na/	commissionnassions /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	commissionnassiez /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.na.sje/	commissionnassent /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	commissionne /kɔ.mi.sjɔn/	—	commissionnons /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.nɔ̃/	commissionnez /kɔ.mi.sjɔ.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

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