rançonner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rançonner, from Old French raençonner. By surface analysis, rançon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.ne/

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Verb

rançonner

1. to ransom

Conjugation

Conjugation of rançonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rançonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rançonnant /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rançonné /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rançonne /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	rançonnes /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	rançonne /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	rançonnons /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɔ̃/	rançonnez /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.ne/	rançonnent /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/
	imperfect	rançonnais /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ/	rançonnais /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ/	rançonnait /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ/	rançonnions /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.njɔ̃/	rançonniez /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nje/	rançonnaient /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	rançonnai /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.ne/	rançonnas /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.na/	rançonna /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.na/	rançonnâmes /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nam/	rançonnâtes /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nat/	rançonnèrent /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	rançonnerai /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁe/	rançonneras /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁa/	rançonnera /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁa/	rançonnerons /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/	rançonnerez /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁe/	rançonneront /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rançonnerais /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁɛ/	rançonnerais /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁɛ/	rançonnerait /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.ʁɛ/	rançonnerions /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	rançonneriez /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nə.ʁje/	rançonneraient /ʁɑ̃.sɔn.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	rançonne /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	rançonnes /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	rançonne /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	rançonnions /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.njɔ̃/	rançonniez /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nje/	rançonnent /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/
	imperfect2	rançonnasse /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nas/	rançonnasses /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nas/	rançonnât /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.na/	rançonnassions /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	rançonnassiez /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.na.sje/	rançonnassent /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rançonne /ʁɑ̃.sɔn/	—	rançonnons /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.nɔ̃/	rançonnez /ʁɑ̃.sɔ.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

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