bannir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bannir, from Old French bannir, banir, from Frankish *bannijan, from Proto-Germanic *bannijaną (“to banish”), from *bannaz, *banną (“ban, curse, order, banishment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”). More at ban.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.niʁ/

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Verb

bannir

1. (transitive) to banish

   Near-synonym: exiler

2. (transitive) to ban, to proscribe, to forbid, to prohibit

   Near-synonyms: interdire, proscrire

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 bannir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bannir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bannissant /ba.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		banni /ba.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bannis /ba.ni/	bannis /ba.ni/	bannit /ba.ni/	bannissons /ba.ni.sɔ̃/	bannissez /ba.ni.se/	bannissent /ba.nis/
	imperfect	bannissais /ba.ni.sɛ/	bannissais /ba.ni.sɛ/	bannissait /ba.ni.sɛ/	bannissions /ba.ni.sjɔ̃/	bannissiez /ba.ni.sje/	bannissaient /ba.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	bannis /ba.ni/	bannis /ba.ni/	bannit /ba.ni/	bannîmes /ba.nim/	bannîtes /ba.nit/	bannirent /ba.niʁ/
	future	bannirai /ba.ni.ʁe/	banniras /ba.ni.ʁa/	bannira /ba.ni.ʁa/	bannirons /ba.ni.ʁɔ̃/	bannirez /ba.ni.ʁe/	banniront /ba.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bannirais /ba.ni.ʁɛ/	bannirais /ba.ni.ʁɛ/	bannirait /ba.ni.ʁɛ/	bannirions /ba.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	banniriez /ba.ni.ʁje/	banniraient /ba.ni.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	bannisse /ba.nis/	bannisses /ba.nis/	bannisse /ba.nis/	bannissions /ba.ni.sjɔ̃/	bannissiez /ba.ni.sje/	bannissent /ba.nis/
	imperfect2	bannisse /ba.nis/	bannisses /ba.nis/	bannît /ba.ni/	bannissions /ba.ni.sjɔ̃/	bannissiez /ba.ni.sje/	bannissent /ba.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bannis /ba.ni/	—	bannissons /ba.ni.sɔ̃/	bannissez /ba.ni.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• bannissable
• bannissement

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Verb

bannir

1. second-person singular active present subjunctive of banna