capitonner

French

Etymology

From capiton

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

capitonner

1. to pad (fill with padding)

Conjugation

Conjugation of capitonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	capitonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	capitonnant /ka.pi.tɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		capitonné /ka.pi.tɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	capitonne /ka.pi.tɔn/	capitonnes /ka.pi.tɔn/	capitonne /ka.pi.tɔn/	capitonnons /ka.pi.tɔ.nɔ̃/	capitonnez /ka.pi.tɔ.ne/	capitonnent /ka.pi.tɔn/
	imperfect	capitonnais /ka.pi.tɔ.nɛ/	capitonnais /ka.pi.tɔ.nɛ/	capitonnait /ka.pi.tɔ.nɛ/	capitonnions /ka.pi.tɔ.njɔ̃/	capitonniez /ka.pi.tɔ.nje/	capitonnaient /ka.pi.tɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	capitonnai /ka.pi.tɔ.ne/	capitonnas /ka.pi.tɔ.na/	capitonna /ka.pi.tɔ.na/	capitonnâmes /ka.pi.tɔ.nam/	capitonnâtes /ka.pi.tɔ.nat/	capitonnèrent /ka.pi.tɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	capitonnerai /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁe/	capitonneras /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁa/	capitonnera /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁa/	capitonnerons /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/	capitonnerez /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁe/	capitonneront /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	capitonnerais /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁɛ/	capitonnerais /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁɛ/	capitonnerait /ka.pi.tɔn.ʁɛ/	capitonnerions /ka.pi.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	capitonneriez /ka.pi.tɔ.nə.ʁje/	capitonneraient /ka.pi.tɔn.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	capitonne /ka.pi.tɔn/	capitonnes /ka.pi.tɔn/	capitonne /ka.pi.tɔn/	capitonnions /ka.pi.tɔ.njɔ̃/	capitonniez /ka.pi.tɔ.nje/	capitonnent /ka.pi.tɔn/
	imperfect2	capitonnasse /ka.pi.tɔ.nas/	capitonnasses /ka.pi.tɔ.nas/	capitonnât /ka.pi.tɔ.na/	capitonnassions /ka.pi.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	capitonnassiez /ka.pi.tɔ.na.sje/	capitonnassent /ka.pi.tɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	capitonne /ka.pi.tɔn/	—	capitonnons /ka.pi.tɔ.nɔ̃/	capitonnez /ka.pi.tɔ.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

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