séjourner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sojorner by vowel dissimilation (first ‘o’ → ‘é’), inherited from Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”). Cognate to English sojourn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ʒuʁ.ne/

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Verb

séjourner

1. (intransitive) to stay, to sojourn

Conjugation

Conjugation of séjourner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	séjourner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	séjournant /se.ʒuʁ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		séjourné /se.ʒuʁ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	séjourne /se.ʒuʁn/	séjournes /se.ʒuʁn/	séjourne /se.ʒuʁn/	séjournons /se.ʒuʁ.nɔ̃/	séjournez /se.ʒuʁ.ne/	séjournent /se.ʒuʁn/
	imperfect	séjournais /se.ʒuʁ.nɛ/	séjournais /se.ʒuʁ.nɛ/	séjournait /se.ʒuʁ.nɛ/	séjournions /se.ʒuʁ.njɔ̃/	séjourniez /se.ʒuʁ.nje/	séjournaient /se.ʒuʁ.nɛ/
	past historic2	séjournai /se.ʒuʁ.ne/	séjournas /se.ʒuʁ.na/	séjourna /se.ʒuʁ.na/	séjournâmes /se.ʒuʁ.nam/	séjournâtes /se.ʒuʁ.nat/	séjournèrent /se.ʒuʁ.nɛʁ/
	future	séjournerai /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁe/	séjourneras /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁa/	séjournera /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁa/	séjournerons /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/	séjournerez /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁe/	séjourneront /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	séjournerais /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	séjournerais /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	séjournerait /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	séjournerions /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	séjourneriez /se.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁje/	séjourneraient /se.ʒuʁ.nə.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	séjourne /se.ʒuʁn/	séjournes /se.ʒuʁn/	séjourne /se.ʒuʁn/	séjournions /se.ʒuʁ.njɔ̃/	séjourniez /se.ʒuʁ.nje/	séjournent /se.ʒuʁn/
	imperfect2	séjournasse /se.ʒuʁ.nas/	séjournasses /se.ʒuʁ.nas/	séjournât /se.ʒuʁ.na/	séjournassions /se.ʒuʁ.na.sjɔ̃/	séjournassiez /se.ʒuʁ.na.sje/	séjournassent /se.ʒuʁ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	séjourne /se.ʒuʁn/	—	séjournons /se.ʒuʁ.nɔ̃/	séjournez /se.ʒuʁ.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

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