consigner

English

Alternative forms

• consignor

Etymology

Etymology tree

English consign

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English consigner

From consign + -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

consigner (plural consigners)

1. The party that consigns.
2. (business) The party that provides merchandise for consignment sale.
   • 2007 August 24, Wendy Moonan, “Tea Is Served, With Extra Rococo and a Hint of Revolution”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The two joined Mr. Hook and the consigner at dinner to discuss the sale and then returned to the house.

Translations

party that consigns

• Bulgarian: изпращач (bg) (izpraštač)
• Polish: konsygnant m

party that provides merchandise for consignment sale

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: спедитор (bg) (speditor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 托運人 / 托运人 (zh) (tuōyùnrén), 發貨人 / 发货人 (zh) (fāhuòrén), 寄銷人 / 寄销人 (jìxiāorén)

• Czech: odesílatel (cs) m
• Finnish: lähettäjä (fi)
• French: expéditeur (fr) m
• German: Versender m
• Greek: αποστολέας (el) m (apostoléas)
• Indonesian: penitip jual
• Japanese: 荷送人 (におくりにん, niokurinin), 委託者 (いたくしゃ, itakusha)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: konsygnant m
• Portuguese: consignador m
• Russian: грузоотправи́тель (ru) m (gruzootpravítelʹ), отправи́тель (ru) m (otpravítelʹ)
• Spanish: expedidor m
• Turkish: gönderen (tr), gönderici (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• censoring, necrosing, recognins, reconsign

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin cōnsignāre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

consigner

1. (military) to confine to quarters
2. (school) to give (somebody) detention
3. to record, to write down
4. to consign

Conjugation

Conjugation of consigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	consigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	consignant /kɔ̃.si.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		consigné /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/	consignes /kɔ̃.siɲ/	consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/	consignons /kɔ̃.si.ɲɔ̃/	consignez /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/	consignent /kɔ̃.siɲ/
	imperfect	consignais /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/	consignais /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/	consignait /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/	consignions /kɔ̃.si.ɲjɔ̃/	consigniez /kɔ̃.si.ɲje/	consignaient /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	consignai /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/	consignas /kɔ̃.si.ɲa/	consigna /kɔ̃.si.ɲa/	consignâmes /kɔ̃.si.ɲam/	consignâtes /kɔ̃.si.ɲat/	consignèrent /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛʁ/
	future	consignerai /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁe/	consigneras /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁa/	consignera /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁa/	consignerons /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	consignerez /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁe/	consigneront /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consignerais /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/	consignerais /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/	consignerait /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/	consignerions /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	consigneriez /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁje/	consigneraient /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.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	consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/	consignes /kɔ̃.siɲ/	consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/	consignions /kɔ̃.si.ɲjɔ̃/	consigniez /kɔ̃.si.ɲje/	consignent /kɔ̃.siɲ/
	imperfect2	consignasse /kɔ̃.si.ɲas/	consignasses /kɔ̃.si.ɲas/	consignât /kɔ̃.si.ɲa/	consignassions /kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	consignassiez /kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sje/	consignassent /kɔ̃.si.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/	—	consignons /kɔ̃.si.ɲɔ̃/	consignez /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/	—
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

• consigne

Related terms

• consignation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

cōnsigner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsignō