témoigner
French
Etymology
From Middle French tesmoigner, from Old French tesmoignier, from tesmoing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.mwa.ɲe/
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Verb
témoigner
- (intransitive) to witness, to be a witness at or for
- (transitive) to demonstrate, show, or prove something
- Je leur ai acheté un petit cadeau pour leur témoigner ma gratitude.
- I bought them a little gift to show my gratitude.
- Je leur ai acheté un petit cadeau pour leur témoigner ma gratitude.
Conjugation
Conjugation of témoigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | témoigner | avoir témoigné | |||||
| gerund | en témoignant | en ayant témoigné | |||||
| present participle | témoignant /te.mwa.ɲɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | témoigné /te.mwa.ɲe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | témoigne /te.mwaɲ/ |
témoignes /te.mwaɲ/ |
témoigne /te.mwaɲ/ |
témoignons /te.mwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
témoignez /te.mwa.ɲe/ |
témoignent /te.mwaɲ/ |
| imperfect | témoignais /te.mwa.ɲɛ/ |
témoignais /te.mwa.ɲɛ/ |
témoignait /te.mwa.ɲɛ/ |
témoignions /te.mwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
témoigniez /te.mwa.ɲje/ |
témoignaient /te.mwa.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | témoignai /te.mwa.ɲe/ |
témoignas /te.mwa.ɲa/ |
témoigna /te.mwa.ɲa/ |
témoignâmes /te.mwa.ɲam/ |
témoignâtes /te.mwa.ɲat/ |
témoignèrent /te.mwa.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | témoignerai /te.mwaɲ.ʁe/ |
témoigneras /te.mwaɲ.ʁa/ |
témoignera /te.mwaɲ.ʁa/ |
témoignerons /te.mwaɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
témoignerez /te.mwaɲ.ʁe/ |
témoigneront /te.mwaɲ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | témoignerais /te.mwaɲ.ʁɛ/ |
témoignerais /te.mwaɲ.ʁɛ/ |
témoignerait /te.mwaɲ.ʁɛ/ |
témoignerions /te.mwa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
témoigneriez /te.mwa.ɲə.ʁje/ |
témoigneraient /te.mwaɲ.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 | témoigne /te.mwaɲ/ |
témoignes /te.mwaɲ/ |
témoigne /te.mwaɲ/ |
témoignions /te.mwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
témoigniez /te.mwa.ɲje/ |
témoignent /te.mwaɲ/ |
| imperfect1 | témoignasse /te.mwa.ɲas/ |
témoignasses /te.mwa.ɲas/ |
témoignât /te.mwa.ɲa/ |
témoignassions /te.mwa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
témoignassiez /te.mwa.ɲa.sje/ |
témoignassent /te.mwa.ɲas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | témoigne /te.mwaɲ/ |
— | témoignons /te.mwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
témoignez /te.mwa.ɲe/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “témoigner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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