ajourner

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ajorner, from the phrase a jorn (nome) (“to an (appointed) day”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒuʁ.ne/

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Verb

ajourner

1. postpone, adjourn, put off (an event)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ajourner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ajourner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ajournant /a.ʒuʁ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ajourné /a.ʒuʁ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ajourne /a.ʒuʁn/	ajournes /a.ʒuʁn/	ajourne /a.ʒuʁn/	ajournons /a.ʒuʁ.nɔ̃/	ajournez /a.ʒuʁ.ne/	ajournent /a.ʒuʁn/
	imperfect	ajournais /a.ʒuʁ.nɛ/	ajournais /a.ʒuʁ.nɛ/	ajournait /a.ʒuʁ.nɛ/	ajournions /a.ʒuʁ.njɔ̃/	ajourniez /a.ʒuʁ.nje/	ajournaient /a.ʒuʁ.nɛ/
	past historic2	ajournai /a.ʒuʁ.ne/	ajournas /a.ʒuʁ.na/	ajourna /a.ʒuʁ.na/	ajournâmes /a.ʒuʁ.nam/	ajournâtes /a.ʒuʁ.nat/	ajournèrent /a.ʒuʁ.nɛʁ/
	future	ajournerai /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁe/	ajourneras /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁa/	ajournera /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁa/	ajournerons /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/	ajournerez /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁe/	ajourneront /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ajournerais /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	ajournerais /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	ajournerait /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	ajournerions /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ajourneriez /a.ʒuʁ.nə.ʁje/	ajourneraient /a.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	ajourne /a.ʒuʁn/	ajournes /a.ʒuʁn/	ajourne /a.ʒuʁn/	ajournions /a.ʒuʁ.njɔ̃/	ajourniez /a.ʒuʁ.nje/	ajournent /a.ʒuʁn/
	imperfect2	ajournasse /a.ʒuʁ.nas/	ajournasses /a.ʒuʁ.nas/	ajournât /a.ʒuʁ.na/	ajournassions /a.ʒuʁ.na.sjɔ̃/	ajournassiez /a.ʒuʁ.na.sje/	ajournassent /a.ʒuʁ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ajourne /a.ʒuʁn/	—	ajournons /a.ʒuʁ.nɔ̃/	ajournez /a.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

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