consigner

English

Alternative forms

• consignor

Etymology

consign +‎ -er.

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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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

• Czech: odesílatel (cs) m
• Finnish: lähettäjä (fi)
• French: expéditeur (fr) m
• German: Versender m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: αποστολέας (el) m (apostoléas)
• 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
• Portuguese: consignador m
• Russian: грузоотправи́тель (ru) m (gruzootpravítelʹ), отправи́тель (ru) m (otpravítelʹ)
• Spanish: expedidor m
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• censoring, necrosing, recognins, reconsign

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French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin consigno, consignare.

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).

Related terms

• consigne

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cōnsīgner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsīgnō