plafonner

French

Etymology

From plafond +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

plafonner

1. (transitive) to cap (put an upper limit on)
2. (intransitive) to reach one's upper limit

Conjugation

Conjugation of plafonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	plafonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	plafonnant /pla.fɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		plafonné /pla.fɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	plafonne /pla.fɔn/	plafonnes /pla.fɔn/	plafonne /pla.fɔn/	plafonnons /pla.fɔ.nɔ̃/	plafonnez /pla.fɔ.ne/	plafonnent /pla.fɔn/
	imperfect	plafonnais /pla.fɔ.nɛ/	plafonnais /pla.fɔ.nɛ/	plafonnait /pla.fɔ.nɛ/	plafonnions /pla.fɔ.njɔ̃/	plafonniez /pla.fɔ.nje/	plafonnaient /pla.fɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	plafonnai /pla.fɔ.ne/	plafonnas /pla.fɔ.na/	plafonna /pla.fɔ.na/	plafonnâmes /pla.fɔ.nam/	plafonnâtes /pla.fɔ.nat/	plafonnèrent /pla.fɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	plafonnerai /pla.fɔn.ʁe/	plafonneras /pla.fɔn.ʁa/	plafonnera /pla.fɔn.ʁa/	plafonnerons /pla.fɔn.ʁɔ̃/	plafonnerez /pla.fɔn.ʁe/	plafonneront /pla.fɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	plafonnerais /pla.fɔn.ʁɛ/	plafonnerais /pla.fɔn.ʁɛ/	plafonnerait /pla.fɔn.ʁɛ/	plafonnerions /pla.fɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	plafonneriez /pla.fɔ.nə.ʁje/	plafonneraient /pla.fɔn.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	plafonne /pla.fɔn/	plafonnes /pla.fɔn/	plafonne /pla.fɔn/	plafonnions /pla.fɔ.njɔ̃/	plafonniez /pla.fɔ.nje/	plafonnent /pla.fɔn/
	imperfect2	plafonnasse /pla.fɔ.nas/	plafonnasses /pla.fɔ.nas/	plafonnât /pla.fɔ.na/	plafonnassions /pla.fɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	plafonnassiez /pla.fɔ.na.sje/	plafonnassent /pla.fɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	plafonne /pla.fɔn/	—	plafonnons /pla.fɔ.nɔ̃/	plafonnez /pla.fɔ.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

• plafonnement

Further reading

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