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donner: Conjugation

The donner conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb donner according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of donner, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of donner at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je donne tu donnes il/elle donne nous donnons vous donnez ils/elles donnent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai donné tu as donné il/elle a donné nous avons donné vous avez donné ils/elles ont donné Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je donnais tu donnais il/elle donnait nous donnions vous donniez ils/elles donnaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais donné tu avais donné il/elle avait donné nous avions donné vous aviez donné ils/elles avaient donné Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je donnerai tu donneras il/elle donnera nous donnerons vous donnerez ils/elles donneront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai donné tu auras donné il/elle aura donné nous aurons donné vous aurez donné ils/elles auront donné Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je donnerais tu donnerais il/elle donnerait nous donnerions vous donneriez ils/elles donneraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais donné tu aurais donné il/elle aurait donné nous aurions donné vous auriez donné ils/elles auraient donné Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je donne tu donnes il/elle donne nous donnions vous donniez ils/elles donnent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie donné tu aies donné il/elle ait donné nous ayons donné vous ayez donné ils/elles aient donné Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je donnai tu donnas il/elle donna nous donnâmes vous donnâtes ils/elles donnèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus donné tu eus donné il/elle eut donné nous eûmes donné vous eûtes donné ils/elles eurent donné Pronounce these verb forms

This verb follows the so-called regular -er verb pattern, the pattern followed by vast majority of verbs of the language, and by practically all new verbs entering the language.

The regular -er pattern has the following defining features:

• No characteristic consonant (contrast, for example, with verbs following the finir or dormir patterns, which have a characteristic -ss- and -m- in all forms but the present tense singular);
• No vowel change in the stem, other than where necessary to respect general patterns of French phonology (e.g. see préférer)²;
• Past participle in -é¹.

1. Outside the regular -er paradigm, only aller, être and naître have past participles ending in -é.
2. Many other verb patterns, except verbs of the finir type plus a few other patterns, have an irregular vowel change, e.g. boire > je bois vs nous buvons. See the grammar section on irregular verb patterns in French for a list of the different vowel changes.