subordonner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

subordonner (à) (transitive)

1. to subordinate (to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of subordonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	subordonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	subordonnant /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		subordonné /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	subordonne /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	subordonnes /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	subordonne /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	subordonnons /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɔ̃/	subordonnez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.ne/	subordonnent /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/
	imperfect	subordonnais /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/	subordonnais /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/	subordonnait /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/	subordonnions /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.njɔ̃/	subordonniez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nje/	subordonnaient /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	subordonnai /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.ne/	subordonnas /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.na/	subordonna /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.na/	subordonnâmes /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nam/	subordonnâtes /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nat/	subordonnèrent /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	subordonnerai /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁe/	subordonneras /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁa/	subordonnera /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁa/	subordonnerons /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/	subordonnerez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁe/	subordonneront /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	subordonnerais /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɛ/	subordonnerais /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɛ/	subordonnerait /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.ʁɛ/	subordonnerions /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	subordonneriez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nə.ʁje/	subordonneraient /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn.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	subordonne /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	subordonnes /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	subordonne /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	subordonnions /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.njɔ̃/	subordonniez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nje/	subordonnent /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/
	imperfect2	subordonnasse /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nas/	subordonnasses /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nas/	subordonnât /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.na/	subordonnassions /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	subordonnassiez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.na.sje/	subordonnassent /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	subordonne /sy.bɔʁ.dɔn/	—	subordonnons /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.nɔ̃/	subordonnez /sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.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

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