aliéner

See also: aliener

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aliēnāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lje.ne/

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Verb

aliéner

1. to alienate

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written aliéner-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written alièner-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

infinitive	simple	aliéner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aliénant /a.lje.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aliéné /a.lje.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aliène /a.ljɛn/	aliènes /a.ljɛn/	aliène /a.ljɛn/	aliénons /a.lje.nɔ̃/	aliénez /a.lje.ne/	aliènent /a.ljɛn/
	imperfect	aliénais /a.lje.nɛ/	aliénais /a.lje.nɛ/	aliénait /a.lje.nɛ/	aliénions /a.lje.njɔ̃/	aliéniez /a.lje.nje/	aliénaient /a.lje.nɛ/
	past historic2	aliénai /a.lje.ne/	aliénas /a.lje.na/	aliéna /a.lje.na/	aliénâmes /a.lje.nam/	aliénâtes /a.lje.nat/	aliénèrent /a.lje.nɛʁ/
	future	aliènerai or aliénerai /a.ljɛn.ʁe/	alièneras or aliéneras /a.ljɛn.ʁa/	aliènera or aliénera /a.ljɛn.ʁa/	aliènerons or aliénerons /a.ljɛn.ʁɔ̃/	aliènerez or aliénerez /a.ljɛn.ʁe/	alièneront or aliéneront /a.ljɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aliènerais or aliénerais /a.ljɛn.ʁɛ/	aliènerais or aliénerais /a.ljɛn.ʁɛ/	aliènerait or aliénerait /a.ljɛn.ʁɛ/	aliènerions or aliénerions /a.ljɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.lje.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	alièneriez or aliéneriez /a.ljɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /a.lje.nə.ʁje/	alièneraient or aliéneraient /a.ljɛn.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	aliène /a.ljɛn/	aliènes /a.ljɛn/	aliène /a.ljɛn/	aliénions /a.lje.njɔ̃/	aliéniez /a.lje.nje/	aliènent /a.ljɛn/
	imperfect2	aliénasse /a.lje.nas/	aliénasses /a.lje.nas/	aliénât /a.lje.na/	aliénassions /a.lje.na.sjɔ̃/	aliénassiez /a.lje.na.sje/	aliénassent /a.lje.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aliène /a.ljɛn/	—	aliénons /a.lje.nɔ̃/	aliénez /a.lje.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).

Conjugation of aliéner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Related terms

• aliénation

References

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