cloisonner

French

Etymology

From cloison (“partition”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klwa.zɔ.ne/

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Verb

cloisonner

1. (transitive) to partition, compartmentalize

Conjugation

Conjugation of cloisonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cloisonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cloisonnant /klwa.zɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cloisonné /klwa.zɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/	cloisonnes /klwa.zɔn/	cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/	cloisonnons /klwa.zɔ.nɔ̃/	cloisonnez /klwa.zɔ.ne/	cloisonnent /klwa.zɔn/
	imperfect	cloisonnais /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/	cloisonnais /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/	cloisonnait /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/	cloisonnions /klwa.zɔ.njɔ̃/	cloisonniez /klwa.zɔ.nje/	cloisonnaient /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	cloisonnai /klwa.zɔ.ne/	cloisonnas /klwa.zɔ.na/	cloisonna /klwa.zɔ.na/	cloisonnâmes /klwa.zɔ.nam/	cloisonnâtes /klwa.zɔ.nat/	cloisonnèrent /klwa.zɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	cloisonnerai /klwa.zɔn.ʁe/	cloisonneras /klwa.zɔn.ʁa/	cloisonnera /klwa.zɔn.ʁa/	cloisonnerons /klwa.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/	cloisonnerez /klwa.zɔn.ʁe/	cloisonneront /klwa.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cloisonnerais /klwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/	cloisonnerais /klwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/	cloisonnerait /klwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/	cloisonnerions /klwa.zɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cloisonneriez /klwa.zɔ.nə.ʁje/	cloisonneraient /klwa.zɔn.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	cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/	cloisonnes /klwa.zɔn/	cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/	cloisonnions /klwa.zɔ.njɔ̃/	cloisonniez /klwa.zɔ.nje/	cloisonnent /klwa.zɔn/
	imperfect2	cloisonnasse /klwa.zɔ.nas/	cloisonnasses /klwa.zɔ.nas/	cloisonnât /klwa.zɔ.na/	cloisonnassions /klwa.zɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	cloisonnassiez /klwa.zɔ.na.sje/	cloisonnassent /klwa.zɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/	—	cloisonnons /klwa.zɔ.nɔ̃/	cloisonnez /klwa.zɔ.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

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