daigner

French

Etymology

From Old French deignier, from Vulgar Latin *dignāre, from Latin dīgnārī, present active infinitive of dīgnō. Compare Italian degnare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.ɲe/ ~ /de.ɲe/, /de.ɲe/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: daignai, daigné, daignée, daignées, daignés, daignez

Verb

daigner

1. to deign, condescend
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:

     Daignez, ô ma dame, avoir souvenance de ce coeur, votre sujet, qui souffre tant d’angoisses pour l’amour de vous.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Deign, O my lady, to have remembrance of this heart, your subject, who suffers so much distress for the love of you.

Conjugation

Conjugation of daigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	daigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	daignant /dɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /de.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		daigné /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignes /dɛɲ/	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /de.ɲɔ̃/	daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/	daignent /dɛɲ/
	imperfect	daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/	daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/	daignait /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/	daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲjɔ̃/	daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ or /de.ɲje/	daignaient /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	daignai /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/	daignas /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/	daigna /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/	daignâmes /dɛ.ɲam/ or /de.ɲam/	daignâtes /dɛ.ɲat/ or /de.ɲat/	daignèrent /dɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /de.ɲɛʁ/
	future	daignerai /dɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /de.ɲə.ʁe/	daigneras /dɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /de.ɲə.ʁa/	daignera /dɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /de.ɲə.ʁa/	daignerons /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	daignerez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /de.ɲə.ʁe/	daigneront /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	daignerais /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/	daignerais /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/	daignerait /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/	daignerions /dɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	daigneriez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /de.ɲə.ʁje/	daigneraient /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.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	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignes /dɛɲ/	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲjɔ̃/	daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ or /de.ɲje/	daignent /dɛɲ/
	imperfect2	daignasse /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/	daignasses /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/	daignât /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/	daignassions /dɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	daignassiez /dɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /de.ɲa.sje/	daignassent /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	daigne /dɛɲ/	—	daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /de.ɲɔ̃/	daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.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

• dédaigner
• digne

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dénigra, gardien, geindra, grandie