cloisonner
French
Etymology
From cloison (“partition”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klwa.zɔ.ne/
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Verb
cloisonner
- (transitive) to partition, compartmentalize
Conjugation
Conjugation of cloisonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cloisonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cloisonnant /klwa.zɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cloisonné /klwa.zɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/ |
cloisonnes /klwa.zɔn/ |
cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/ |
cloisonnons /klwa.zɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cloisonnez /klwa.zɔ.ne/ |
cloisonnent /klwa.zɔn/ |
| imperfect | cloisonnais /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/ |
cloisonnais /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/ |
cloisonnait /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/ |
cloisonnions /klwa.zɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cloisonniez /klwa.zɔ.nje/ |
cloisonnaient /klwa.zɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cloisonnai /klwa.zɔ.ne/ |
cloisonnas /klwa.zɔ.na/ |
cloisonna /klwa.zɔ.na/ |
cloisonnâmes /klwa.zɔ.nam/ |
cloisonnâtes /klwa.zɔ.nat/ |
cloisonnèrent /klwa.zɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | cloisonnerai /klwa.zɔn.ʁe/ |
cloisonneras /klwa.zɔn.ʁa/ |
cloisonnera /klwa.zɔn.ʁa/ |
cloisonnerons /klwa.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
cloisonnerez /klwa.zɔn.ʁe/ |
cloisonneront /klwa.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cloisonnerais /klwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cloisonnerais /klwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cloisonnerait /klwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/ |
cloisonnerions /klwa.zɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cloisonneriez /klwa.zɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
cloisonneraient /klwa.zɔn.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 | cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/ |
cloisonnes /klwa.zɔn/ |
cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/ |
cloisonnions /klwa.zɔ.njɔ̃/ |
cloisonniez /klwa.zɔ.nje/ |
cloisonnent /klwa.zɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | cloisonnasse /klwa.zɔ.nas/ |
cloisonnasses /klwa.zɔ.nas/ |
cloisonnât /klwa.zɔ.na/ |
cloisonnassions /klwa.zɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cloisonnassiez /klwa.zɔ.na.sje/ |
cloisonnassent /klwa.zɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cloisonne /klwa.zɔn/ |
— | cloisonnons /klwa.zɔ.nɔ̃/ |
cloisonnez /klwa.zɔ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “cloisonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.