jeûner

See also: jeuner and jeüner

French

Alternative forms

• jeuner (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French jeüner, from Latin iēiūnāre, from Latin iēiūnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒø.ne/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ʒœ̃.ne/

Verb

jeûner

1. (intransitive) to fast; to go without food

Conjugation

Conjugation of jeûner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jeûner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jeûnant /ʒø.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jeûné /ʒø.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jeûne /ʒøn/	jeûnes /ʒøn/	jeûne /ʒøn/	jeûnons /ʒø.nɔ̃/	jeûnez /ʒø.ne/	jeûnent /ʒøn/
	imperfect	jeûnais /ʒø.nɛ/	jeûnais /ʒø.nɛ/	jeûnait /ʒø.nɛ/	jeûnions /ʒø.njɔ̃/	jeûniez /ʒø.nje/	jeûnaient /ʒø.nɛ/
	past historic2	jeûnai /ʒø.ne/	jeûnas /ʒø.na/	jeûna /ʒø.na/	jeûnâmes /ʒø.nam/	jeûnâtes /ʒø.nat/	jeûnèrent /ʒø.nɛʁ/
	future	jeûnerai /ʒøn.ʁe/	jeûneras /ʒøn.ʁa/	jeûnera /ʒøn.ʁa/	jeûnerons /ʒøn.ʁɔ̃/	jeûnerez /ʒøn.ʁe/	jeûneront /ʒøn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jeûnerais /ʒøn.ʁɛ/	jeûnerais /ʒøn.ʁɛ/	jeûnerait /ʒøn.ʁɛ/	jeûnerions /ʒø.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	jeûneriez /ʒø.nə.ʁje/	jeûneraient /ʒøn.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	jeûne /ʒøn/	jeûnes /ʒøn/	jeûne /ʒøn/	jeûnions /ʒø.njɔ̃/	jeûniez /ʒø.nje/	jeûnent /ʒøn/
	imperfect2	jeûnasse /ʒø.nas/	jeûnasses /ʒø.nas/	jeûnât /ʒø.na/	jeûnassions /ʒø.na.sjɔ̃/	jeûnassiez /ʒø.na.sje/	jeûnassent /ʒø.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jeûne /ʒøn/	—	jeûnons /ʒø.nɔ̃/	jeûnez /ʒø.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).

Related terms

• à jeun
• déjeuner
• jeûne
• petit déjeuner

 

Further reading

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