faonner

French

Etymology

From faon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ne/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: faner

Verb

faonner

1. (intransitive) to fawn; to give birth to a fawn, or young deer

Inflection

Conjugation of faonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	faonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	faonnant /fa.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		faonné /fa.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	faonne /fan/	faonnes /fan/	faonne /fan/	faonnons /fa.nɔ̃/	faonnez /fa.ne/	faonnent /fan/
	imperfect	faonnais /fa.nɛ/	faonnais /fa.nɛ/	faonnait /fa.nɛ/	faonnions /fa.njɔ̃/	faonniez /fa.nje/	faonnaient /fa.nɛ/
	past historic2	faonnai /fa.ne/	faonnas /fa.na/	faonna /fa.na/	faonnâmes /fa.nam/	faonnâtes /fa.nat/	faonnèrent /fa.nɛʁ/
	future	faonnerai /fan.ʁe/	faonneras /fan.ʁa/	faonnera /fan.ʁa/	faonnerons /fan.ʁɔ̃/	faonnerez /fan.ʁe/	faonneront /fan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	faonnerais /fan.ʁɛ/	faonnerais /fan.ʁɛ/	faonnerait /fan.ʁɛ/	faonnerions /fa.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	faonneriez /fa.nə.ʁje/	faonneraient /fan.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	faonne /fan/	faonnes /fan/	faonne /fan/	faonnions /fa.njɔ̃/	faonniez /fa.nje/	faonnent /fan/
	imperfect2	faonnasse /fa.nas/	faonnasses /fa.nas/	faonnât /fa.na/	faonnassions /fa.na.sjɔ̃/	faonnassiez /fa.na.sje/	faonnassent /fa.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	faonne /fan/	—	faonnons /fa.nɔ̃/	faonnez /fa.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

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