profaner

English

Etymology

profane +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

profaner (plural profaners)

1. One who profanes; a person who desecrates or defiles.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: profanador m, profanadora f
• French: profanateur (fr) m, profanatrice (fr) f
• Galician: profanador m, profanadora f
• Italian: profanatore (it) f, profanatrice (it) f
• Portuguese: profanador m, profanadora f
• Spanish: profanador m, profanadora (es) f

Adjective

profaner

1. comparative form of profane: more profane

French

Etymology

From Latin profānāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

profaner

1. to profane

Conjugation

Conjugation of profaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	profaner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	profanant /pʁɔ.fa.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		profané /pʁɔ.fa.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	profane /pʁɔ.fan/	profanes /pʁɔ.fan/	profane /pʁɔ.fan/	profanons /pʁɔ.fa.nɔ̃/	profanez /pʁɔ.fa.ne/	profanent /pʁɔ.fan/
	imperfect	profanais /pʁɔ.fa.nɛ/	profanais /pʁɔ.fa.nɛ/	profanait /pʁɔ.fa.nɛ/	profanions /pʁɔ.fa.njɔ̃/	profaniez /pʁɔ.fa.nje/	profanaient /pʁɔ.fa.nɛ/
	past historic2	profanai /pʁɔ.fa.ne/	profanas /pʁɔ.fa.na/	profana /pʁɔ.fa.na/	profanâmes /pʁɔ.fa.nam/	profanâtes /pʁɔ.fa.nat/	profanèrent /pʁɔ.fa.nɛʁ/
	future	profanerai /pʁɔ.fan.ʁe/	profaneras /pʁɔ.fan.ʁa/	profanera /pʁɔ.fan.ʁa/	profanerons /pʁɔ.fan.ʁɔ̃/	profanerez /pʁɔ.fan.ʁe/	profaneront /pʁɔ.fan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	profanerais /pʁɔ.fan.ʁɛ/	profanerais /pʁɔ.fan.ʁɛ/	profanerait /pʁɔ.fan.ʁɛ/	profanerions /pʁɔ.fa.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	profaneriez /pʁɔ.fa.nə.ʁje/	profaneraient /pʁɔ.fan.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	profane /pʁɔ.fan/	profanes /pʁɔ.fan/	profane /pʁɔ.fan/	profanions /pʁɔ.fa.njɔ̃/	profaniez /pʁɔ.fa.nje/	profanent /pʁɔ.fan/
	imperfect2	profanasse /pʁɔ.fa.nas/	profanasses /pʁɔ.fa.nas/	profanât /pʁɔ.fa.na/	profanassions /pʁɔ.fa.na.sjɔ̃/	profanassiez /pʁɔ.fa.na.sje/	profanassent /pʁɔ.fa.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	profane /pʁɔ.fan/	—	profanons /pʁɔ.fa.nɔ̃/	profanez /pʁɔ.fa.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

• profane

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

profāner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of profānō