saigner
French
Etymology
Attested in Old French as saignier, from Latin sanguināre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ.ɲe/ ~ /se.ɲe/
Audio: (file) - (Louisiana) IPA(key): [sæ̃je]
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Verb
saigner
- (intransitive) to bleed, to be bleeding
- (transitive) to bleed, to drain blood from
- (transitive) to knife to death
Conjugation
Conjugation of saigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | saigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | saignant /sɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /se.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | saigné /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | saigne /sɛɲ/ |
saignes /sɛɲ/ |
saigne /sɛɲ/ |
saignons /sɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /se.ɲɔ̃/ |
saignez /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.ɲe/ |
saignent /sɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | saignais /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/ |
saignais /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/ |
saignait /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/ |
saignions /sɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲjɔ̃/ |
saigniez /sɛ.ɲje/ or /se.ɲje/ |
saignaient /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | saignai /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.ɲe/ |
saignas /sɛ.ɲa/ or /se.ɲa/ |
saigna /sɛ.ɲa/ or /se.ɲa/ |
saignâmes /sɛ.ɲam/ or /se.ɲam/ |
saignâtes /sɛ.ɲat/ or /se.ɲat/ |
saignèrent /sɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /se.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | saignerai /sɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /se.ɲə.ʁe/ |
saigneras /sɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /se.ɲə.ʁa/ |
saignera /sɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /se.ɲə.ʁa/ |
saignerons /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
saignerez /sɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /se.ɲə.ʁe/ |
saigneront /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | saignerais /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
saignerais /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
saignerait /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
saignerions /sɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
saigneriez /sɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /se.ɲə.ʁje/ |
saigneraient /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.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 | saigne /sɛɲ/ |
saignes /sɛɲ/ |
saigne /sɛɲ/ |
saignions /sɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲjɔ̃/ |
saigniez /sɛ.ɲje/ or /se.ɲje/ |
saignent /sɛɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | saignasse /sɛ.ɲas/ or /se.ɲas/ |
saignasses /sɛ.ɲas/ or /se.ɲas/ |
saignât /sɛ.ɲa/ or /se.ɲa/ |
saignassions /sɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
saignassiez /sɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /se.ɲa.sje/ |
saignassent /sɛ.ɲas/ or /se.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | saigne /sɛɲ/ |
— | saignons /sɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /se.ɲɔ̃/ |
saignez /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.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). | |||||||
Synonyms
- exsanguiner (drain blood)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: senyen
Further reading
- “saigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.