dédouaner
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
dédouaner
- (transitive) to clear through customs
- (transitive, reflexive) to excuse from responsibility, usually too lightly; to let off the hook
- 2007 (3 November), Bruno Leblanc, "Crédit de carbone: ne pas confondre altruisme et investissement", La Presse:
- Ce crédit devient un outil servant à dédouaner votre conscience environnementale.
- This credit becomes a tool to let your environmental conscience off the hook.
- 2007 (3 November), Bruno Leblanc, "Crédit de carbone: ne pas confondre altruisme et investissement", La Presse:
Conjugation
Conjugation of dédouaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dédouaner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dédouanant /de.dwa.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dédouané /de.dwa.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dédouane /de.dwan/ |
dédouanes /de.dwan/ |
dédouane /de.dwan/ |
dédouanons /de.dwa.nɔ̃/ |
dédouanez /de.dwa.ne/ |
dédouanent /de.dwan/ |
| imperfect | dédouanais /de.dwa.nɛ/ |
dédouanais /de.dwa.nɛ/ |
dédouanait /de.dwa.nɛ/ |
dédouanions /de.dwa.njɔ̃/ |
dédouaniez /de.dwa.nje/ |
dédouanaient /de.dwa.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dédouanai /de.dwa.ne/ |
dédouanas /de.dwa.na/ |
dédouana /de.dwa.na/ |
dédouanâmes /de.dwa.nam/ |
dédouanâtes /de.dwa.nat/ |
dédouanèrent /de.dwa.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | dédouanerai /de.dwan.ʁe/ |
dédouaneras /de.dwan.ʁa/ |
dédouanera /de.dwan.ʁa/ |
dédouanerons /de.dwan.ʁɔ̃/ |
dédouanerez /de.dwan.ʁe/ |
dédouaneront /de.dwan.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dédouanerais /de.dwan.ʁɛ/ |
dédouanerais /de.dwan.ʁɛ/ |
dédouanerait /de.dwan.ʁɛ/ |
dédouanerions /de.dwa.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dédouaneriez /de.dwa.nə.ʁje/ |
dédouaneraient /de.dwan.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 | dédouane /de.dwan/ |
dédouanes /de.dwan/ |
dédouane /de.dwan/ |
dédouanions /de.dwa.njɔ̃/ |
dédouaniez /de.dwa.nje/ |
dédouanent /de.dwan/ |
| imperfect2 | dédouanasse /de.dwa.nas/ |
dédouanasses /de.dwa.nas/ |
dédouanât /de.dwa.na/ |
dédouanassions /de.dwa.na.sjɔ̃/ |
dédouanassiez /de.dwa.na.sje/ |
dédouanassent /de.dwa.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dédouane /de.dwan/ |
— | dédouanons /de.dwa.nɔ̃/ |
dédouanez /de.dwa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dédouaner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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