indigner

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indignārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ɲe/

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Verb

indigner

1. to fill with indignation, exasperate

   Je suis indigné de sa conduite.

   I'm appalled by his behaviour.

2. (reflexive, s'indigner) to express self-righteous anger or disgust

   s’indigner contre une injustice

   to be outraged by an injustice; to rail against an injustice

Conjugation

Conjugation of indigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	indigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	indignant /ɛ̃.di.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		indigné /ɛ̃.di.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	indigne /ɛ̃.diɲ/	indignes /ɛ̃.diɲ/	indigne /ɛ̃.diɲ/	indignons /ɛ̃.di.ɲɔ̃/	indignez /ɛ̃.di.ɲe/	indignent /ɛ̃.diɲ/
	imperfect	indignais /ɛ̃.di.ɲɛ/	indignais /ɛ̃.di.ɲɛ/	indignait /ɛ̃.di.ɲɛ/	indignions /ɛ̃.di.ɲjɔ̃/	indigniez /ɛ̃.di.ɲje/	indignaient /ɛ̃.di.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	indignai /ɛ̃.di.ɲe/	indignas /ɛ̃.di.ɲa/	indigna /ɛ̃.di.ɲa/	indignâmes /ɛ̃.di.ɲam/	indignâtes /ɛ̃.di.ɲat/	indignèrent /ɛ̃.di.ɲɛʁ/
	future	indignerai /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁe/	indigneras /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁa/	indignera /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁa/	indignerons /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	indignerez /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁe/	indigneront /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	indignerais /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁɛ/	indignerais /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁɛ/	indignerait /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁɛ/	indignerions /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	indigneriez /ɛ̃.di.ɲə.ʁje/	indigneraient /ɛ̃.di.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	indigne /ɛ̃.diɲ/	indignes /ɛ̃.diɲ/	indigne /ɛ̃.diɲ/	indignions /ɛ̃.di.ɲjɔ̃/	indigniez /ɛ̃.di.ɲje/	indignent /ɛ̃.diɲ/
	imperfect2	indignasse /ɛ̃.di.ɲas/	indignasses /ɛ̃.di.ɲas/	indignât /ɛ̃.di.ɲa/	indignassions /ɛ̃.di.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	indignassiez /ɛ̃.di.ɲa.sje/	indignassent /ɛ̃.di.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	indigne /ɛ̃.diɲ/	—	indignons /ɛ̃.di.ɲɔ̃/	indignez /ɛ̃.di.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: 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).

Related terms

• indigne

References

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

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

indigner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of indignor