connoter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connotāre (“to mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) notō (“to note”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.nɔ.te/

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Verb

connoter

1. connote

Conjugation

Conjugation of connoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	connoter
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	connotant /kɔ.nɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		connoté /kɔ.nɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	connote /kɔ.nɔt/	connotes /kɔ.nɔt/	connote /kɔ.nɔt/	connotons /kɔ.nɔ.tɔ̃/	connotez /kɔ.nɔ.te/	connotent /kɔ.nɔt/
	imperfect	connotais /kɔ.nɔ.tɛ/	connotais /kɔ.nɔ.tɛ/	connotait /kɔ.nɔ.tɛ/	connotions /kɔ.nɔ.tjɔ̃/	connotiez /kɔ.nɔ.tje/	connotaient /kɔ.nɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	connotai /kɔ.nɔ.te/	connotas /kɔ.nɔ.ta/	connota /kɔ.nɔ.ta/	connotâmes /kɔ.nɔ.tam/	connotâtes /kɔ.nɔ.tat/	connotèrent /kɔ.nɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	connoterai /kɔ.nɔ.tʁe/	connoteras /kɔ.nɔ.tʁa/	connotera /kɔ.nɔ.tʁa/	connoterons /kɔ.nɔ.tʁɔ̃/	connoterez /kɔ.nɔ.tʁe/	connoteront /kɔ.nɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	connoterais /kɔ.nɔ.tʁɛ/	connoterais /kɔ.nɔ.tʁɛ/	connoterait /kɔ.nɔ.tʁɛ/	connoterions /kɔ.nɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	connoteriez /kɔ.nɔ.tə.ʁje/	connoteraient /kɔ.nɔ.tʁɛ/
(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	connote /kɔ.nɔt/	connotes /kɔ.nɔt/	connote /kɔ.nɔt/	connotions /kɔ.nɔ.tjɔ̃/	connotiez /kɔ.nɔ.tje/	connotent /kɔ.nɔt/
	imperfect2	connotasse /kɔ.nɔ.tas/	connotasses /kɔ.nɔ.tas/	connotât /kɔ.nɔ.ta/	connotassions /kɔ.nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	connotassiez /kɔ.nɔ.ta.sje/	connotassent /kɔ.nɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	connote /kɔ.nɔt/	—	connotons /kɔ.nɔ.tɔ̃/	connotez /kɔ.nɔ.te/	—
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

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