materner

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māternus (“relating to a mother, maternal”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.tɛʁ.ne/

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Verb

materner

1. (transitive) to mother, mollycoddle

Conjugation

Conjugation of materner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	materner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maternant /ma.tɛʁ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		materné /ma.tɛʁ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	materne /ma.tɛʁn/	maternes /ma.tɛʁn/	materne /ma.tɛʁn/	maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/	maternez /ma.tɛʁ.ne/	maternent /ma.tɛʁn/
	imperfect	maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/	maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/	maternait /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/	maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/	materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/	maternaient /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/
	past historic2	maternai /ma.tɛʁ.ne/	maternas /ma.tɛʁ.na/	materna /ma.tɛʁ.na/	maternâmes /ma.tɛʁ.nam/	maternâtes /ma.tɛʁ.nat/	maternèrent /ma.tɛʁ.nɛʁ/
	future	maternerai /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/	materneras /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/	maternera /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/	maternerons /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/	maternerez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/	materneront /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	maternerait /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	maternerions /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	materneriez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁje/	materneraient /ma.tɛʁ.nə.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	materne /ma.tɛʁn/	maternes /ma.tɛʁn/	materne /ma.tɛʁn/	maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/	materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/	maternent /ma.tɛʁn/
	imperfect2	maternasse /ma.tɛʁ.nas/	maternasses /ma.tɛʁ.nas/	maternât /ma.tɛʁ.na/	maternassions /ma.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃/	maternassiez /ma.tɛʁ.na.sje/	maternassent /ma.tɛʁ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	materne /ma.tɛʁn/	—	maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/	maternez /ma.tɛʁ.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

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