tamponner

French

Etymology

From tampon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.pɔ.ne/

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Verb

tamponner

1. to tamp
2. to swab
3. to buffer

Conjugation

Conjugation of tamponner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tamponner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tamponnant /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tamponné /tɑ̃.pɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tamponne /tɑ̃.pɔn/	tamponnes /tɑ̃.pɔn/	tamponne /tɑ̃.pɔn/	tamponnons /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɔ̃/	tamponnez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ne/	tamponnent /tɑ̃.pɔn/
	imperfect	tamponnais /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	tamponnais /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	tamponnait /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/	tamponnions /tɑ̃.pɔ.njɔ̃/	tamponniez /tɑ̃.pɔ.nje/	tamponnaient /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	tamponnai /tɑ̃.pɔ.ne/	tamponnas /tɑ̃.pɔ.na/	tamponna /tɑ̃.pɔ.na/	tamponnâmes /tɑ̃.pɔ.nam/	tamponnâtes /tɑ̃.pɔ.nat/	tamponnèrent /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	tamponnerai /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁe/	tamponneras /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁa/	tamponnera /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁa/	tamponnerons /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/	tamponnerez /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁe/	tamponneront /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tamponnerais /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	tamponnerais /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	tamponnerait /tɑ̃.pɔn.ʁɛ/	tamponnerions /tɑ̃.pɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	tamponneriez /tɑ̃.pɔ.nə.ʁje/	tamponneraient /tɑ̃.pɔn.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	tamponne /tɑ̃.pɔn/	tamponnes /tɑ̃.pɔn/	tamponne /tɑ̃.pɔn/	tamponnions /tɑ̃.pɔ.njɔ̃/	tamponniez /tɑ̃.pɔ.nje/	tamponnent /tɑ̃.pɔn/
	imperfect2	tamponnasse /tɑ̃.pɔ.nas/	tamponnasses /tɑ̃.pɔ.nas/	tamponnât /tɑ̃.pɔ.na/	tamponnassions /tɑ̃.pɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	tamponnassiez /tɑ̃.pɔ.na.sje/	tamponnassent /tɑ̃.pɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tamponne /tɑ̃.pɔn/	—	tamponnons /tɑ̃.pɔ.nɔ̃/	tamponnez /tɑ̃.pɔ.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).

Derived terms

• tamponnage

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• promenant