hameçonner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.sɔ.ne/

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Verb

hameçonner

1. to attract and seduce by a deceptive appearance
2. (Internet) to phish

Conjugation

Conjugation of hameçonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	hameçonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hameçonnant /am.sɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hameçonné /am.sɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hameçonne /am.sɔn/	hameçonnes /am.sɔn/	hameçonne /am.sɔn/	hameçonnons /am.sɔ.nɔ̃/	hameçonnez /am.sɔ.ne/	hameçonnent /am.sɔn/
	imperfect	hameçonnais /am.sɔ.nɛ/	hameçonnais /am.sɔ.nɛ/	hameçonnait /am.sɔ.nɛ/	hameçonnions /am.sɔ.njɔ̃/	hameçonniez /am.sɔ.nje/	hameçonnaient /am.sɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	hameçonnai /am.sɔ.ne/	hameçonnas /am.sɔ.na/	hameçonna /am.sɔ.na/	hameçonnâmes /am.sɔ.nam/	hameçonnâtes /am.sɔ.nat/	hameçonnèrent /am.sɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	hameçonnerai /am.sɔn.ʁe/	hameçonneras /am.sɔn.ʁa/	hameçonnera /am.sɔn.ʁa/	hameçonnerons /am.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/	hameçonnerez /am.sɔn.ʁe/	hameçonneront /am.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hameçonnerais /am.sɔn.ʁɛ/	hameçonnerais /am.sɔn.ʁɛ/	hameçonnerait /am.sɔn.ʁɛ/	hameçonnerions /am.sɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	hameçonneriez /am.sɔ.nə.ʁje/	hameçonneraient /am.sɔn.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	hameçonne /am.sɔn/	hameçonnes /am.sɔn/	hameçonne /am.sɔn/	hameçonnions /am.sɔ.njɔ̃/	hameçonniez /am.sɔ.nje/	hameçonnent /am.sɔn/
	imperfect2	hameçonnasse /am.sɔ.nas/	hameçonnasses /am.sɔ.nas/	hameçonnât /am.sɔ.na/	hameçonnassions /am.sɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	hameçonnassiez /am.sɔ.na.sje/	hameçonnassent /am.sɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hameçonne /am.sɔn/	—	hameçonnons /am.sɔ.nɔ̃/	hameçonnez /am.sɔ.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).

Related terms

• hameçonnage

Further reading

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