randonner

French

Etymology

From Middle French randonner, from Old French randonner (“to run headlong”), from randon, a derivative of Old French randir (“to run”), from Old Frankish *rand (“a course; running”), from Proto-Germanic *randijō (“running”). More at rin, ren, run.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne/

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Verb

randonner

1. to hike, trek, walk around

Conjugation

Conjugation of randonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	randonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	randonnant /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		randonné /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	randonne /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	randonnes /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	randonne /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	randonnons /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɔ̃/	randonnez /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne/	randonnent /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/
	imperfect	randonnais /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɛ/	randonnais /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɛ/	randonnait /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɛ/	randonnions /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.njɔ̃/	randonniez /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nje/	randonnaient /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	randonnai /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne/	randonnas /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.na/	randonna /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.na/	randonnâmes /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nam/	randonnâtes /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nat/	randonnèrent /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	randonnerai /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁe/	randonneras /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁa/	randonnera /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁa/	randonnerons /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/	randonnerez /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁe/	randonneront /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	randonnerais /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁɛ/	randonnerais /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁɛ/	randonnerait /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.ʁɛ/	randonnerions /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	randonneriez /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nə.ʁje/	randonneraient /ʁɑ̃.dɔn.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	randonne /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	randonnes /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	randonne /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	randonnions /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.njɔ̃/	randonniez /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nje/	randonnent /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/
	imperfect2	randonnasse /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nas/	randonnasses /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nas/	randonnât /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.na/	randonnassions /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	randonnassiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.na.sje/	randonnassent /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	randonne /ʁɑ̃.dɔn/	—	randonnons /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nɔ̃/	randonnez /ʁɑ̃.dɔ.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

• randonnée f (noun)

Further reading

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