Inherited from Old French reignier, borrowed from Latin rēgnāre (“to govern”).
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régner
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 régner-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written règner-, 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 | régner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | régnant /ʁe.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | régné /ʁe.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
règnes /ʁɛɲ/ |
règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
régnons /ʁe.ɲɔ̃/ |
régnez /ʁe.ɲe/ |
règnent /ʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | régnais /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
régnais /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
régnait /ʁe.ɲɛ/ |
régnions /ʁe.ɲjɔ̃/ |
régniez /ʁe.ɲje/ |
régnaient /ʁe.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | régnai /ʁe.ɲe/ |
régnas /ʁe.ɲa/ |
régna /ʁe.ɲa/ |
régnâmes /ʁe.ɲam/ |
régnâtes /ʁe.ɲat/ |
régnèrent /ʁe.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | règnerai or régnerai /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁe/ |
règneras or régneras /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁa/ |
règnera or régnera /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁa/ |
règnerons or régnerons /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
règnerez or régnerez /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁe/ |
règneront or régneront /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | règnerais or régnerais /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
règnerais or régnerais /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
règnerait or régnerait /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
règnerions or régnerions /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
règneriez or régneriez /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ɲə.ʁje/ |
règneraient or régneraient /ʁɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.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 | règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
règnes /ʁɛɲ/ |
règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
régnions /ʁe.ɲjɔ̃/ |
régniez /ʁe.ɲje/ |
règnent /ʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | régnasse /ʁe.ɲas/ |
régnasses /ʁe.ɲas/ |
régnât /ʁe.ɲa/ |
régnassions /ʁe.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
régnassiez /ʁe.ɲa.sje/ |
régnassent /ʁe.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | règne /ʁɛɲ/ |
— | régnons /ʁe.ɲɔ̃/ |
régnez /ʁe.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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||