cramponner

French

Etymology

See crampon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne/

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Verb

cramponner

1. (transitive) to attach with, or drive a spike or hook into
2. (transitive) to staple, stud (a shoe); attach a crampon, spike, or hook to
3. (transitive) to stud or attach calks (to a horseshoe)
4. (transitive, by extension) to shoe (a horse or mule) using a studded horseshoe
5. (reflexive, with à) to cling onto, attach oneself to (something or someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cramponner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cramponner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cramponnant /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cramponné /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cramponne /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	cramponnes /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	cramponne /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	cramponnons /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɔ̃/	cramponnez /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne/	cramponnent /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/
	imperfect	cramponnais /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	cramponnais /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	cramponnait /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	cramponnions /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.njɔ̃/	cramponniez /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nje/	cramponnaient /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	cramponnai /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.ne/	cramponnas /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.na/	cramponna /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.na/	cramponnâmes /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nam/	cramponnâtes /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nat/	cramponnèrent /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	cramponnerai /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁe/	cramponneras /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁa/	cramponnera /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁa/	cramponnerons /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/	cramponnerez /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁe/	cramponneront /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cramponnerais /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	cramponnerais /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	cramponnerait /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	cramponnerions /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cramponneriez /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nə.ʁje/	cramponneraient /kʁɑ̃.pɔn.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	cramponne /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	cramponnes /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	cramponne /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	cramponnions /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.njɔ̃/	cramponniez /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nje/	cramponnent /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/
	imperfect2	cramponnasse /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nas/	cramponnasses /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nas/	cramponnât /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.na/	cramponnassions /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	cramponnassiez /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.na.sje/	cramponnassent /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cramponne /kʁɑ̃.pɔn/	—	cramponnons /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.nɔ̃/	cramponnez /kʁɑ̃.pɔ.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

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