pendre

See also: Pendre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pendre, from Late Latin pendĕre (conjugation confused with or altered by pendere (“to suspend, hang”)) for Latin pendēre, present active infinitive pendeō, from Proto-Italic *pendēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃dʁ/

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Verb

pendre

1. (transitive, intransitive) to hang
   • 2017, Pomme, Pauline:

     Ô Pauline, pendus à tes bottines, les garçons passaient tous à côté de moi.

     Oh Pauline, the boys were all hung up on your ankle boots, and they took no notice of me.

2. (intransitive) to sag, droop

Conjugation

Conjugation of pendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pendre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pendant /pɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pendu /pɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pends /pɑ̃/	pends /pɑ̃/	pend /pɑ̃/	pendons /pɑ̃.dɔ̃/	pendez /pɑ̃.de/	pendent /pɑ̃d/
	imperfect	pendais /pɑ̃.dɛ/	pendais /pɑ̃.dɛ/	pendait /pɑ̃.dɛ/	pendions /pɑ̃.djɔ̃/	pendiez /pɑ̃.dje/	pendaient /pɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	pendis /pɑ̃.di/	pendis /pɑ̃.di/	pendit /pɑ̃.di/	pendîmes /pɑ̃.dim/	pendîtes /pɑ̃.dit/	pendirent /pɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	pendrai /pɑ̃.dʁe/	pendras /pɑ̃.dʁa/	pendra /pɑ̃.dʁa/	pendrons /pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	pendrez /pɑ̃.dʁe/	pendront /pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pendrais /pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	pendrais /pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	pendrait /pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	pendrions /pɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	pendriez /pɑ̃.dʁi.je/	pendraient /pɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	pende /pɑ̃d/	pendes /pɑ̃d/	pende /pɑ̃d/	pendions /pɑ̃.djɔ̃/	pendiez /pɑ̃.dje/	pendent /pɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	pendisse /pɑ̃.dis/	pendisses /pɑ̃.dis/	pendît /pɑ̃.di/	pendissions /pɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	pendissiez /pɑ̃.di.sje/	pendissent /pɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pends /pɑ̃/	—	pendons /pɑ̃.dɔ̃/	pendez /pɑ̃.de/	—
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).

Derived terms

• avoir la langue bien pendue
• être pendu aux lèvres de
• pendaison
• pendre au nez
• pendre haut et court
• pendre la crémaillère
• pis que pendre
• rependre

Further reading

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

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pendere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

pendre

1. (Provençal, Limousin, Vivaro-Alpine, Auvergne) to hang

Dialectal variants

• penjar
• péner
• pendilhar
• pendolar
• pendelhar

Old French

Alternative forms

• pandre, penre

Etymology

From Late Latin pendĕre (conjugation confused with or altered by pendere (“to suspend, hang”)) for Latin pendēre, present active infinitive pendeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpendɾə/, /ˈpandɾə/

Verb

pendre

1. (transitive, intransitive) to hang

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of pendre (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		pendre			avoir pendu
gerund		en pendant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		pendant
past participle		pendu
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	pent	penz	pent	pendons	pendez	pendent
	imperfect	pendoie, pendeie	pendoies, pendeies	pendoit, pendeit	pendiiens, pendiens	pendiiez, pendiez	pendoient, pendeient
	preterite	pendi	pendis	pendié	pendimes	pendistes	pendierent
	future	pendrai	pendras	pendra	pendrons	pendroiz, pendreiz, pendrez	pendront
	conditional	pendroie, pendreie	pendroies, pendreies	pendroit, pendreit	pendriiens, pendriens	pendriiez, pendriez	pendroient, pendreient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	pende	pendes	pende	pendons	pendez	pendent
	imperfect	pendisse	pendisses	pendist	pendissons, pendissiens	pendissoiz, pendissez, pendissiez	pendissent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	pent	—	pendons	pendez	—

Descendants

• Middle French: pendre
  • → English: pend
  • French: pendre