confiner
English
Etymology
Noun
confiner (plural confiners)
- One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- A person who lives on or within the confines; an inhabitant.
French
Verb
confiner
- to confine (to have a common boundary)
Conjugation
Conjugation of confiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | confiner | avoir confiné | |||||
| gerund | en confinant | en ayant confiné | |||||
| present participle | confinant /kɔ̃.fi.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | confiné /kɔ̃.fi.ne/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | confine /kɔ̃.fin/ |
confines /kɔ̃.fin/ |
confine /kɔ̃.fin/ |
confinons /kɔ̃.fi.nɔ̃/ |
confinez /kɔ̃.fi.ne/ |
confinent /kɔ̃.fin/ |
| imperfect | confinais /kɔ̃.fi.nɛ/ |
confinais /kɔ̃.fi.nɛ/ |
confinait /kɔ̃.fi.nɛ/ |
confinions /kɔ̃.fi.njɔ̃/ |
confiniez /kɔ̃.fi.nje/ |
confinaient /kɔ̃.fi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | confinai /kɔ̃.fi.ne/ |
confinas /kɔ̃.fi.na/ |
confina /kɔ̃.fi.na/ |
confinâmes /kɔ̃.fi.nam/ |
confinâtes /kɔ̃.fi.nat/ |
confinèrent /kɔ̃.fi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | confinerai /kɔ̃.fin.ʁe/ |
confineras /kɔ̃.fin.ʁa/ |
confinera /kɔ̃.fin.ʁa/ |
confinerons /kɔ̃.fin.ʁɔ̃/ |
confinerez /kɔ̃.fin.ʁe/ |
confineront /kɔ̃.fin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | confinerais /kɔ̃.fin.ʁɛ/ |
confinerais /kɔ̃.fin.ʁɛ/ |
confinerait /kɔ̃.fin.ʁɛ/ |
confinerions /kɔ̃.fi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
confineriez /kɔ̃.fi.nə.ʁje/ |
confineraient /kɔ̃.fin.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | confine /kɔ̃.fin/ |
confines /kɔ̃.fin/ |
confine /kɔ̃.fin/ |
confinions /kɔ̃.fi.njɔ̃/ |
confiniez /kɔ̃.fi.nje/ |
confinent /kɔ̃.fin/ |
| imperfect1 | confinasse /kɔ̃.fi.nas/ |
confinasses /kɔ̃.fi.nas/ |
confinât /kɔ̃.fi.na/ |
confinassions /kɔ̃.fi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
confinassiez /kɔ̃.fi.na.sje/ |
confinassent /kɔ̃.fi.nas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | confine /kɔ̃.fin/ |
— | confinons /kɔ̃.fi.nɔ̃/ |
confinez /kɔ̃.fi.ne/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “confiner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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