consigner
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
consigner (plural consigners)
- The party that consigns.
- (business) The party that provides merchandise for consignment sale.
- 2007 August 24, Wendy Moonan, “Tea Is Served, With Extra Rococo and a Hint of Revolution”, in New York Times[1]:
- The two joined Mr. Hook and the consigner at dinner to discuss the sale and then returned to the house.
Translations
party that provides merchandise for consignment sale
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin cōnsignāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
consigner
- (military) to confine to quarters
- (school) to give (somebody) detention
- to record, to write down
- to consign
Conjugation
Conjugation of consigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | consigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | consignant /kɔ̃.si.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | consigné /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
consignes /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
consignons /kɔ̃.si.ɲɔ̃/ |
consignez /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/ |
consignent /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
| imperfect | consignais /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/ |
consignais /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/ |
consignait /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/ |
consignions /kɔ̃.si.ɲjɔ̃/ |
consigniez /kɔ̃.si.ɲje/ |
consignaient /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | consignai /kɔ̃.si.ɲe/ |
consignas /kɔ̃.si.ɲa/ |
consigna /kɔ̃.si.ɲa/ |
consignâmes /kɔ̃.si.ɲam/ |
consignâtes /kɔ̃.si.ɲat/ |
consignèrent /kɔ̃.si.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | consignerai /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁe/ |
consigneras /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁa/ |
consignera /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁa/ |
consignerons /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
consignerez /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁe/ |
consigneront /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | consignerais /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
consignerais /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
consignerait /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
consignerions /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
consigneriez /kɔ̃.si.ɲə.ʁje/ |
consigneraient /kɔ̃.si.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 | consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
consignes /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
consignions /kɔ̃.si.ɲjɔ̃/ |
consigniez /kɔ̃.si.ɲje/ |
consignent /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | consignasse /kɔ̃.si.ɲas/ |
consignasses /kɔ̃.si.ɲas/ |
consignât /kɔ̃.si.ɲa/ |
consignassions /kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
consignassiez /kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sje/ |
consignassent /kɔ̃.si.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | consigne /kɔ̃.siɲ/ |
— | consignons /kɔ̃.si.ɲɔ̃/ |
consignez /kɔ̃.si.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “consigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
cōnsigner
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsignō