daigner
French
Pronunciation
Verb
daigner
- to deign, condescend
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:
- Daignez, ô ma dame, avoir souvenance de ce cœur, votre sujet, qui souffre tant d’angoisses pour l’amour de vous.
- Deign, O my lady, to have remembrance of this heart, your subject, who suffers so much distress for the love of you.
Conjugation
Conjugation of daigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | daigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | daignant /dɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /de.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | daigné /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignes /dɛɲ/ |
daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /de.ɲɔ̃/ |
daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/ |
daignent /dɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/ |
daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/ |
daignait /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/ |
daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲjɔ̃/ |
daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ or /de.ɲje/ |
daignaient /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | daignai /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/ |
daignas /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/ |
daigna /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/ |
daignâmes /dɛ.ɲam/ or /de.ɲam/ |
daignâtes /dɛ.ɲat/ or /de.ɲat/ |
daignèrent /dɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /de.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | daignerai /dɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /de.ɲə.ʁe/ |
daigneras /dɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /de.ɲə.ʁa/ |
daignera /dɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /de.ɲə.ʁa/ |
daignerons /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
daignerez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /de.ɲə.ʁe/ |
daigneront /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | daignerais /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
daignerais /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
daignerait /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
daignerions /dɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
daigneriez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /de.ɲə.ʁje/ |
daigneraient /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.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 | daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignes /dɛɲ/ |
daigne /dɛɲ/ |
daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲjɔ̃/ |
daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ or /de.ɲje/ |
daignent /dɛɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | daignasse /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/ |
daignasses /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/ |
daignât /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/ |
daignassions /dɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
daignassiez /dɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /de.ɲa.sje/ |
daignassent /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | daigne /dɛɲ/ |
— | daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /de.ɲɔ̃/ |
daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “daigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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