parrainer

French

Etymology

parrain (“godfather”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

parrainer

1. to mentor
2. to sponsor

Conjugation

Conjugation of parrainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	parrainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	parrainant /pa.ʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		parrainé /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	parraine /pa.ʁɛn/	parraines /pa.ʁɛn/	parraine /pa.ʁɛn/	parrainons /pa.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nɔ̃/	parrainez /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.ne/	parrainent /pa.ʁɛn/
	imperfect	parrainais /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/	parrainais /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/	parrainait /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/	parrainions /pa.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.njɔ̃/	parrainiez /pa.ʁɛ.nje/ or /pa.ʁe.nje/	parrainaient /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛ/
	past historic2	parrainai /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.ne/	parrainas /pa.ʁɛ.na/ or /pa.ʁe.na/	parraina /pa.ʁɛ.na/ or /pa.ʁe.na/	parrainâmes /pa.ʁɛ.nam/ or /pa.ʁe.nam/	parrainâtes /pa.ʁɛ.nat/ or /pa.ʁe.nat/	parrainèrent /pa.ʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /pa.ʁe.nɛʁ/
	future	parrainerai /pa.ʁɛn.ʁe/	parraineras /pa.ʁɛn.ʁa/	parrainera /pa.ʁɛn.ʁa/	parrainerons /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	parrainerez /pa.ʁɛn.ʁe/	parraineront /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	parrainerais /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	parrainerais /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	parrainerait /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	parrainerions /pa.ʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	parraineriez /pa.ʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /pa.ʁe.nə.ʁje/	parraineraient /pa.ʁɛn.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	parraine /pa.ʁɛn/	parraines /pa.ʁɛn/	parraine /pa.ʁɛn/	parrainions /pa.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.njɔ̃/	parrainiez /pa.ʁɛ.nje/ or /pa.ʁe.nje/	parrainent /pa.ʁɛn/
	imperfect2	parrainasse /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ or /pa.ʁe.nas/	parrainasses /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ or /pa.ʁe.nas/	parrainât /pa.ʁɛ.na/ or /pa.ʁe.na/	parrainassions /pa.ʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.na.sjɔ̃/	parrainassiez /pa.ʁɛ.na.sje/ or /pa.ʁe.na.sje/	parrainassent /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ or /pa.ʁe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	parraine /pa.ʁɛn/	—	parrainons /pa.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.nɔ̃/	parrainez /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ or /pa.ʁe.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

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