jalonner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.lɔ.ne/

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Verb

jalonner

1. stake out, mark out (to mark off the limits by stakes)

Conjugation

Conjugation of jalonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jalonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jalonnant /ʒa.lɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jalonné /ʒa.lɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jalonne /ʒa.lɔn/	jalonnes /ʒa.lɔn/	jalonne /ʒa.lɔn/	jalonnons /ʒa.lɔ.nɔ̃/	jalonnez /ʒa.lɔ.ne/	jalonnent /ʒa.lɔn/
	imperfect	jalonnais /ʒa.lɔ.nɛ/	jalonnais /ʒa.lɔ.nɛ/	jalonnait /ʒa.lɔ.nɛ/	jalonnions /ʒa.lɔ.njɔ̃/	jalonniez /ʒa.lɔ.nje/	jalonnaient /ʒa.lɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	jalonnai /ʒa.lɔ.ne/	jalonnas /ʒa.lɔ.na/	jalonna /ʒa.lɔ.na/	jalonnâmes /ʒa.lɔ.nam/	jalonnâtes /ʒa.lɔ.nat/	jalonnèrent /ʒa.lɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	jalonnerai /ʒa.lɔn.ʁe/	jalonneras /ʒa.lɔn.ʁa/	jalonnera /ʒa.lɔn.ʁa/	jalonnerons /ʒa.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/	jalonnerez /ʒa.lɔn.ʁe/	jalonneront /ʒa.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jalonnerais /ʒa.lɔn.ʁɛ/	jalonnerais /ʒa.lɔn.ʁɛ/	jalonnerait /ʒa.lɔn.ʁɛ/	jalonnerions /ʒa.lɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	jalonneriez /ʒa.lɔ.nə.ʁje/	jalonneraient /ʒa.lɔn.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	jalonne /ʒa.lɔn/	jalonnes /ʒa.lɔn/	jalonne /ʒa.lɔn/	jalonnions /ʒa.lɔ.njɔ̃/	jalonniez /ʒa.lɔ.nje/	jalonnent /ʒa.lɔn/
	imperfect2	jalonnasse /ʒa.lɔ.nas/	jalonnasses /ʒa.lɔ.nas/	jalonnât /ʒa.lɔ.na/	jalonnassions /ʒa.lɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	jalonnassiez /ʒa.lɔ.na.sje/	jalonnassent /ʒa.lɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jalonne /ʒa.lɔn/	—	jalonnons /ʒa.lɔ.nɔ̃/	jalonnez /ʒa.lɔ.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).

Derived terms

• jalonneur
• jalonneuse

Further reading

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