prôner

French

Etymology

From prône (“sermon”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁo.ne/

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Verb

prôner

1. (transitive) to extol, praise, laud
2. (transitive) to recommend, advocate
   • 2022 April 11, Adrien Sénécat, William Audureau, “Marine Le Pen et Emmanuel Macron, deux programmes diamétralement opposés”, in Le Monde‎:

     Les deux finalistes du second tour partagent certaines convergences de vue sur l’économie. Ainsi, tous les deux prônent une politique économique tantôt libérale, tantôt interventionniste.

     The two finalists in the second round agree on some issues concerning the economy. Both of them advocate an economic policy which is sometimes liberal and sometimes interventionist.

3. (archaic) to preach a sermon

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	prôner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	prônant /pʁo.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		prôné /pʁo.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prône /pʁon/	prônes /pʁon/	prône /pʁon/	prônons /pʁo.nɔ̃/	prônez /pʁo.ne/	prônent /pʁon/
	imperfect	prônais /pʁo.nɛ/	prônais /pʁo.nɛ/	prônait /pʁo.nɛ/	prônions /pʁo.njɔ̃/	prôniez /pʁo.nje/	prônaient /pʁo.nɛ/
	past historic2	prônai /pʁo.ne/	prônas /pʁo.na/	prôna /pʁo.na/	prônâmes /pʁo.nam/	prônâtes /pʁo.nat/	prônèrent /pʁo.nɛʁ/
	future	prônerai /pʁon.ʁe/	prôneras /pʁon.ʁa/	prônera /pʁon.ʁa/	prônerons /pʁon.ʁɔ̃/	prônerez /pʁon.ʁe/	prôneront /pʁon.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	prônerais /pʁon.ʁɛ/	prônerais /pʁon.ʁɛ/	prônerait /pʁon.ʁɛ/	prônerions /pʁo.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	prôneriez /pʁo.nə.ʁje/	prôneraient /pʁon.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	prône /pʁon/	prônes /pʁon/	prône /pʁon/	prônions /pʁo.njɔ̃/	prôniez /pʁo.nje/	prônent /pʁon/
	imperfect2	prônasse /pʁo.nas/	prônasses /pʁo.nas/	prônât /pʁo.na/	prônassions /pʁo.na.sjɔ̃/	prônassiez /pʁo.na.sje/	prônassent /pʁo.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prône /pʁon/	—	prônons /pʁo.nɔ̃/	prônez /pʁo.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 prôner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

See also

• prêcher

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• perron

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

prôner

1. (Jersey) to murmur

Synonyms

• murmuther