savonner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

savonner

1. to soap, wash with soap
2. to lather

Conjugation

Conjugation of savonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	savonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	savonnant /sa.vɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		savonné /sa.vɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	savonne /sa.vɔn/	savonnes /sa.vɔn/	savonne /sa.vɔn/	savonnons /sa.vɔ.nɔ̃/	savonnez /sa.vɔ.ne/	savonnent /sa.vɔn/
	imperfect	savonnais /sa.vɔ.nɛ/	savonnais /sa.vɔ.nɛ/	savonnait /sa.vɔ.nɛ/	savonnions /sa.vɔ.njɔ̃/	savonniez /sa.vɔ.nje/	savonnaient /sa.vɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	savonnai /sa.vɔ.ne/	savonnas /sa.vɔ.na/	savonna /sa.vɔ.na/	savonnâmes /sa.vɔ.nam/	savonnâtes /sa.vɔ.nat/	savonnèrent /sa.vɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	savonnerai /sa.vɔn.ʁe/	savonneras /sa.vɔn.ʁa/	savonnera /sa.vɔn.ʁa/	savonnerons /sa.vɔn.ʁɔ̃/	savonnerez /sa.vɔn.ʁe/	savonneront /sa.vɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	savonnerais /sa.vɔn.ʁɛ/	savonnerais /sa.vɔn.ʁɛ/	savonnerait /sa.vɔn.ʁɛ/	savonnerions /sa.vɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	savonneriez /sa.vɔ.nə.ʁje/	savonneraient /sa.vɔn.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	savonne /sa.vɔn/	savonnes /sa.vɔn/	savonne /sa.vɔn/	savonnions /sa.vɔ.njɔ̃/	savonniez /sa.vɔ.nje/	savonnent /sa.vɔn/
	imperfect2	savonnasse /sa.vɔ.nas/	savonnasses /sa.vɔ.nas/	savonnât /sa.vɔ.na/	savonnassions /sa.vɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	savonnassiez /sa.vɔ.na.sje/	savonnassent /sa.vɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	savonne /sa.vɔn/	—	savonnons /sa.vɔ.nɔ̃/	savonnez /sa.vɔ.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

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