trôner

See also: troner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁo.ne/

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• Homophones: trôné, trônez

Verb

trôner

1. (archaic, intransitive) to sit on a throne

Conjugation

Conjugation of trôner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trôner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trônant /tʁo.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trôné /tʁo.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trône /tʁon/	trônes /tʁon/	trône /tʁon/	trônons /tʁo.nɔ̃/	trônez /tʁo.ne/	trônent /tʁon/
	imperfect	trônais /tʁo.nɛ/	trônais /tʁo.nɛ/	trônait /tʁo.nɛ/	trônions /tʁo.njɔ̃/	trôniez /tʁo.nje/	trônaient /tʁo.nɛ/
	past historic2	trônai /tʁo.ne/	trônas /tʁo.na/	trôna /tʁo.na/	trônâmes /tʁo.nam/	trônâtes /tʁo.nat/	trônèrent /tʁo.nɛʁ/
	future	trônerai /tʁon.ʁe/	trôneras /tʁon.ʁa/	trônera /tʁon.ʁa/	trônerons /tʁon.ʁɔ̃/	trônerez /tʁon.ʁe/	trôneront /tʁon.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trônerais /tʁon.ʁɛ/	trônerais /tʁon.ʁɛ/	trônerait /tʁon.ʁɛ/	trônerions /tʁo.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	trôneriez /tʁo.nə.ʁje/	trôneraient /tʁon.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	trône /tʁon/	trônes /tʁon/	trône /tʁon/	trônions /tʁo.njɔ̃/	trôniez /tʁo.nje/	trônent /tʁon/
	imperfect2	trônasse /tʁo.nas/	trônasses /tʁo.nas/	trônât /tʁo.na/	trônassions /tʁo.na.sjɔ̃/	trônassiez /tʁo.na.sje/	trônassent /tʁo.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trône /tʁon/	—	trônons /tʁo.nɔ̃/	trônez /tʁo.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).

Derived terms

• détrôner

Further reading

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