violoner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

violoner

1. to play the violin; especially, to play poorly, to fiddle

Conjugation

Conjugation of violoner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	violoner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	violonant /vjɔ.lɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		violoné /vjɔ.lɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	violone /vjɔ.lɔn/	violones /vjɔ.lɔn/	violone /vjɔ.lɔn/	violonons /vjɔ.lɔ.nɔ̃/	violonez /vjɔ.lɔ.ne/	violonent /vjɔ.lɔn/
	imperfect	violonais /vjɔ.lɔ.nɛ/	violonais /vjɔ.lɔ.nɛ/	violonait /vjɔ.lɔ.nɛ/	violonions /vjɔ.lɔ.njɔ̃/	violoniez /vjɔ.lɔ.nje/	violonaient /vjɔ.lɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	violonai /vjɔ.lɔ.ne/	violonas /vjɔ.lɔ.na/	violona /vjɔ.lɔ.na/	violonâmes /vjɔ.lɔ.nam/	violonâtes /vjɔ.lɔ.nat/	violonèrent /vjɔ.lɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	violonerai /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁe/	violoneras /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁa/	violonera /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁa/	violonerons /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/	violonerez /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁe/	violoneront /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	violonerais /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁɛ/	violonerais /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁɛ/	violonerait /vjɔ.lɔn.ʁɛ/	violonerions /vjɔ.lɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	violoneriez /vjɔ.lɔ.nə.ʁje/	violoneraient /vjɔ.lɔn.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	violone /vjɔ.lɔn/	violones /vjɔ.lɔn/	violone /vjɔ.lɔn/	violonions /vjɔ.lɔ.njɔ̃/	violoniez /vjɔ.lɔ.nje/	violonent /vjɔ.lɔn/
	imperfect2	violonasse /vjɔ.lɔ.nas/	violonasses /vjɔ.lɔ.nas/	violonât /vjɔ.lɔ.na/	violonassions /vjɔ.lɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	violonassiez /vjɔ.lɔ.na.sje/	violonassent /vjɔ.lɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	violone /vjɔ.lɔn/	—	violonons /vjɔ.lɔ.nɔ̃/	violonez /vjɔ.lɔ.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

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