chaperonner

French

Etymology

From chaperon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.pʁɔ.ne/

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Verb

chaperonner

1. (transitive) to chaperone
2. (transitive) to hood

Conjugation

Conjugation of chaperonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chaperonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chaperonnant /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chaperonné /ʃa.pʁɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chaperonne /ʃa.pʁɔn/	chaperonnes /ʃa.pʁɔn/	chaperonne /ʃa.pʁɔn/	chaperonnons /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɔ̃/	chaperonnez /ʃa.pʁɔ.ne/	chaperonnent /ʃa.pʁɔn/
	imperfect	chaperonnais /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɛ/	chaperonnais /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɛ/	chaperonnait /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɛ/	chaperonnions /ʃa.pʁɔ.njɔ̃/	chaperonniez /ʃa.pʁɔ.nje/	chaperonnaient /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	chaperonnai /ʃa.pʁɔ.ne/	chaperonnas /ʃa.pʁɔ.na/	chaperonna /ʃa.pʁɔ.na/	chaperonnâmes /ʃa.pʁɔ.nam/	chaperonnâtes /ʃa.pʁɔ.nat/	chaperonnèrent /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	chaperonnerai /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁe/	chaperonneras /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁa/	chaperonnera /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁa/	chaperonnerons /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁɔ̃/	chaperonnerez /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁe/	chaperonneront /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chaperonnerais /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁɛ/	chaperonnerais /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁɛ/	chaperonnerait /ʃa.pʁɔn.ʁɛ/	chaperonnerions /ʃa.pʁɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	chaperonneriez /ʃa.pʁɔ.nə.ʁje/	chaperonneraient /ʃa.pʁɔn.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	chaperonne /ʃa.pʁɔn/	chaperonnes /ʃa.pʁɔn/	chaperonne /ʃa.pʁɔn/	chaperonnions /ʃa.pʁɔ.njɔ̃/	chaperonniez /ʃa.pʁɔ.nje/	chaperonnent /ʃa.pʁɔn/
	imperfect2	chaperonnasse /ʃa.pʁɔ.nas/	chaperonnasses /ʃa.pʁɔ.nas/	chaperonnât /ʃa.pʁɔ.na/	chaperonnassions /ʃa.pʁɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	chaperonnassiez /ʃa.pʁɔ.na.sje/	chaperonnassent /ʃa.pʁɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chaperonne /ʃa.pʁɔn/	—	chaperonnons /ʃa.pʁɔ.nɔ̃/	chaperonnez /ʃa.pʁɔ.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

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