daigner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French deignier, from Latin dignāre. Cognate with Italian degnare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.ɲe/ ~ /de.ɲe/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: daignai, daigné, daignée, daignées, daignés, daignez

Verb

daigner

1. to deign, condescend
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:

     Daignez, ô ma dame, avoir souvenance de ce cœur, votre sujet, qui souffre tant d’angoisses pour l’amour de vous.

     Deign, O my lady, to have remembrance of this heart, your subject, who suffers so much distress for the love of you.

Conjugation

Conjugation of daigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	daigner
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	daignant /dɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /de.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		daigné /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignes /dɛɲ/	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /de.ɲɔ̃/	daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/	daignent /dɛɲ/
	imperfect	daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/	daignais /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/	daignait /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/	daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲjɔ̃/	daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ or /de.ɲje/	daignaient /dɛ.ɲɛ/ or /de.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	daignai /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/	daignas /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/	daigna /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/	daignâmes /dɛ.ɲam/ or /de.ɲam/	daignâtes /dɛ.ɲat/ or /de.ɲat/	daignèrent /dɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /de.ɲɛʁ/
	future	daignerai /dɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /de.ɲə.ʁe/	daigneras /dɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /de.ɲə.ʁa/	daignera /dɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /de.ɲə.ʁa/	daignerons /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	daignerez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /de.ɲə.ʁe/	daigneront /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	daignerais /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/	daignerais /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/	daignerait /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.ʁɛ/	daignerions /dɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	daigneriez /dɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /de.ɲə.ʁje/	daigneraient /dɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /de.ɲə.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	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignes /dɛɲ/	daigne /dɛɲ/	daignions /dɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲjɔ̃/	daigniez /dɛ.ɲje/ or /de.ɲje/	daignent /dɛɲ/
	imperfect2	daignasse /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/	daignasses /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/	daignât /dɛ.ɲa/ or /de.ɲa/	daignassions /dɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /de.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	daignassiez /dɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /de.ɲa.sje/	daignassent /dɛ.ɲas/ or /de.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	daigne /dɛɲ/	—	daignons /dɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /de.ɲɔ̃/	daignez /dɛ.ɲe/ or /de.ɲe/	—
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

• dédaigner
• digne

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dénigra, gardien, geindra, grandie