faluner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

faluner

1. (agriculture) To add falun to land, in order to improve its quality

Conjugation

Conjugation of faluner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	faluner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	falunant /fa.ly.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		faluné /fa.ly.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	falune /fa.lyn/	falunes /fa.lyn/	falune /fa.lyn/	falunons /fa.ly.nɔ̃/	falunez /fa.ly.ne/	falunent /fa.lyn/
	imperfect	falunais /fa.ly.nɛ/	falunais /fa.ly.nɛ/	falunait /fa.ly.nɛ/	falunions /fa.ly.njɔ̃/	faluniez /fa.ly.nje/	falunaient /fa.ly.nɛ/
	past historic2	falunai /fa.ly.ne/	falunas /fa.ly.na/	faluna /fa.ly.na/	falunâmes /fa.ly.nam/	falunâtes /fa.ly.nat/	falunèrent /fa.ly.nɛʁ/
	future	falunerai /fa.lyn.ʁe/	faluneras /fa.lyn.ʁa/	falunera /fa.lyn.ʁa/	falunerons /fa.lyn.ʁɔ̃/	falunerez /fa.lyn.ʁe/	faluneront /fa.lyn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	falunerais /fa.lyn.ʁɛ/	falunerais /fa.lyn.ʁɛ/	falunerait /fa.lyn.ʁɛ/	falunerions /fa.ly.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	faluneriez /fa.ly.nə.ʁje/	faluneraient /fa.lyn.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	falune /fa.lyn/	falunes /fa.lyn/	falune /fa.lyn/	falunions /fa.ly.njɔ̃/	faluniez /fa.ly.nje/	falunent /fa.lyn/
	imperfect2	falunasse /fa.ly.nas/	falunasses /fa.ly.nas/	falunât /fa.ly.na/	falunassions /fa.ly.na.sjɔ̃/	falunassiez /fa.ly.na.sje/	falunassent /fa.ly.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	falune /fa.lyn/	—	falunons /fa.ly.nɔ̃/	falunez /fa.ly.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

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