honnir
French
Etymology
From Middle French honnir, from Old French hunir (“to publicly shame, dishonour”), from Vulgar Latin *haunio (“I shame, humiliate, dishonor”), from Frankish *haunijan (“to humble, humiliate”) (whence also honte), from Proto-Germanic *haunijaną (“to make low, humble”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to be evil, make evil”). Cognate with Old High German hōnen (“to humble”), Middle Dutch honen (“to dishonour, debauch, corrupt”), Old English hīenan (“to humble, abase”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (haunjan, “to humiliate, abase”).
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔ.niʁ/
Verb
honnir
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of honnir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | honnir | avoir honni | |||||
| gerund | en honnissant | en ayant honni | |||||
| present participle | honnissant /ɔ.ni.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | honni /ɔ.ni/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | honnis /ɔ.ni/ |
honnis /ɔ.ni/ |
honnit /ɔ.ni/ |
honnissons /ɔ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
honnissez /ɔ.ni.se/ |
honnissent /ɔ.nis/ |
| imperfect | honnissais /ɔ.ni.sɛ/ |
honnissais /ɔ.ni.sɛ/ |
honnissait /ɔ.ni.sɛ/ |
honnissions /ɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
honnissiez /ɔ.ni.sje/ |
honnissaient /ɔ.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | honnis /ɔ.ni/ |
honnis /ɔ.ni/ |
honnit /ɔ.ni/ |
honnîmes /ɔ.nim/ |
honnîtes /ɔ.nit/ |
honnirent /ɔ.niʁ/ | |
| future | honnirai /ɔ.ni.ʁe/ |
honniras /ɔ.ni.ʁa/ |
honnira /ɔ.ni.ʁa/ |
honnirons /ɔ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
honnirez /ɔ.ni.ʁe/ |
honniront /ɔ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | honnirais /ɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
honnirais /ɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
honnirait /ɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
honnirions /ɔ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
honniriez /ɔ.ni.ʁje/ |
honniraient /ɔ.ni.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 | honnisse /ɔ.nis/ |
honnisses /ɔ.nis/ |
honnisse /ɔ.nis/ |
honnissions /ɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
honnissiez /ɔ.ni.sje/ |
honnissent /ɔ.nis/ |
| imperfect1 | honnisse /ɔ.nis/ |
honnisses /ɔ.nis/ |
honnît /ɔ.ni/ |
honnissions /ɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
honnissiez /ɔ.ni.sje/ |
honnissent /ɔ.nis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | honnis /ɔ.ni/ |
— | honnissons /ɔ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
honnissez /ɔ.ni.se/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “honnir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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