caponner

French

Etymology

From capon (“coward”), from chapon (“capon, castrated cockerel”), from Italian capo, cappone, cognate with Dutch kapoen, kapuin, Spanish capón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔ.ne/

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Verb

caponner

1. (intransitive) to act cowardly, be yellow, chicken
2. to cat (raise anchor to cathead)

Conjugation

Conjugation of caponner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caponner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	caponnant /ka.pɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caponné /ka.pɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caponne /ka.pɔn/	caponnes /ka.pɔn/	caponne /ka.pɔn/	caponnons /ka.pɔ.nɔ̃/	caponnez /ka.pɔ.ne/	caponnent /ka.pɔn/
	imperfect	caponnais /ka.pɔ.nɛ/	caponnais /ka.pɔ.nɛ/	caponnait /ka.pɔ.nɛ/	caponnions /ka.pɔ.njɔ̃/	caponniez /ka.pɔ.nje/	caponnaient /ka.pɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	caponnai /ka.pɔ.ne/	caponnas /ka.pɔ.na/	caponna /ka.pɔ.na/	caponnâmes /ka.pɔ.nam/	caponnâtes /ka.pɔ.nat/	caponnèrent /ka.pɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	caponnerai /ka.pɔn.ʁe/	caponneras /ka.pɔn.ʁa/	caponnera /ka.pɔn.ʁa/	caponnerons /ka.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/	caponnerez /ka.pɔn.ʁe/	caponneront /ka.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caponnerais /ka.pɔn.ʁɛ/	caponnerais /ka.pɔn.ʁɛ/	caponnerait /ka.pɔn.ʁɛ/	caponnerions /ka.pɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	caponneriez /ka.pɔ.nə.ʁje/	caponneraient /ka.pɔn.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	caponne /ka.pɔn/	caponnes /ka.pɔn/	caponne /ka.pɔn/	caponnions /ka.pɔ.njɔ̃/	caponniez /ka.pɔ.nje/	caponnent /ka.pɔn/
	imperfect2	caponnasse /ka.pɔ.nas/	caponnasses /ka.pɔ.nas/	caponnât /ka.pɔ.na/	caponnassions /ka.pɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	caponnassiez /ka.pɔ.na.sje/	caponnassent /ka.pɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	caponne /ka.pɔn/	—	caponnons /ka.pɔ.nɔ̃/	caponnez /ka.pɔ.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).

Related terms

• caponnière

Further reading

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