maçonner

French

Etymology

From maçon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.sɔ.ne/

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Verb

maçonner

1. (transitive) to face, render (a wall, etc.)
2. (transitive) to brick up

Conjugation

Conjugation of maçonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	maçonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maçonnant /ma.sɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maçonné /ma.sɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maçonne /ma.sɔn/	maçonnes /ma.sɔn/	maçonne /ma.sɔn/	maçonnons /ma.sɔ.nɔ̃/	maçonnez /ma.sɔ.ne/	maçonnent /ma.sɔn/
	imperfect	maçonnais /ma.sɔ.nɛ/	maçonnais /ma.sɔ.nɛ/	maçonnait /ma.sɔ.nɛ/	maçonnions /ma.sɔ.njɔ̃/	maçonniez /ma.sɔ.nje/	maçonnaient /ma.sɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	maçonnai /ma.sɔ.ne/	maçonnas /ma.sɔ.na/	maçonna /ma.sɔ.na/	maçonnâmes /ma.sɔ.nam/	maçonnâtes /ma.sɔ.nat/	maçonnèrent /ma.sɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	maçonnerai /ma.sɔn.ʁe/	maçonneras /ma.sɔn.ʁa/	maçonnera /ma.sɔn.ʁa/	maçonnerons /ma.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/	maçonnerez /ma.sɔn.ʁe/	maçonneront /ma.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	maçonnerais /ma.sɔn.ʁɛ/	maçonnerais /ma.sɔn.ʁɛ/	maçonnerait /ma.sɔn.ʁɛ/	maçonnerions /ma.sɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	maçonneriez /ma.sɔ.nə.ʁje/	maçonneraient /ma.sɔn.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	maçonne /ma.sɔn/	maçonnes /ma.sɔn/	maçonne /ma.sɔn/	maçonnions /ma.sɔ.njɔ̃/	maçonniez /ma.sɔ.nje/	maçonnent /ma.sɔn/
	imperfect2	maçonnasse /ma.sɔ.nas/	maçonnasses /ma.sɔ.nas/	maçonnât /ma.sɔ.na/	maçonnassions /ma.sɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	maçonnassiez /ma.sɔ.na.sje/	maçonnassent /ma.sɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maçonne /ma.sɔn/	—	maçonnons /ma.sɔ.nɔ̃/	maçonnez /ma.sɔ.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

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