saigner

French

Etymology

Attested in Old French as saignier, from Latin sanguināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.ɲe/, /se.ɲe/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [sæ̃je]

Verb

saigner

1. (intransitive) to bleed, to be bleeding
2. (transitive) to bleed, to drain blood from
3. (transitive) to knife to death

Conjugation

Conjugation of saigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	saignant /sɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /se.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		saigné /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saigne /sɛɲ/	saignes /sɛɲ/	saigne /sɛɲ/	saignons /sɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /se.ɲɔ̃/	saignez /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.ɲe/	saignent /sɛɲ/
	imperfect	saignais /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/	saignais /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/	saignait /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/	saignions /sɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲjɔ̃/	saigniez /sɛ.ɲje/ or /se.ɲje/	saignaient /sɛ.ɲɛ/ or /se.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	saignai /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.ɲe/	saignas /sɛ.ɲa/ or /se.ɲa/	saigna /sɛ.ɲa/ or /se.ɲa/	saignâmes /sɛ.ɲam/ or /se.ɲam/	saignâtes /sɛ.ɲat/ or /se.ɲat/	saignèrent /sɛ.ɲɛʁ/ or /se.ɲɛʁ/
	future	saignerai /sɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /se.ɲə.ʁe/	saigneras /sɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /se.ɲə.ʁa/	saignera /sɛ.ɲə.ʁa/ or /se.ɲə.ʁa/	saignerons /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	saignerez /sɛ.ɲə.ʁe/ or /se.ɲə.ʁe/	saigneront /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saignerais /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɛ/	saignerais /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɛ/	saignerait /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.ɲə.ʁɛ/	saignerions /sɛ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	saigneriez /sɛ.ɲə.ʁje/ or /se.ɲə.ʁje/	saigneraient /sɛ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ or /se.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	saigne /sɛɲ/	saignes /sɛɲ/	saigne /sɛɲ/	saignions /sɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲjɔ̃/	saigniez /sɛ.ɲje/ or /se.ɲje/	saignent /sɛɲ/
	imperfect2	saignasse /sɛ.ɲas/ or /se.ɲas/	saignasses /sɛ.ɲas/ or /se.ɲas/	saignât /sɛ.ɲa/ or /se.ɲa/	saignassions /sɛ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ or /se.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	saignassiez /sɛ.ɲa.sje/ or /se.ɲa.sje/	saignassent /sɛ.ɲas/ or /se.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saigne /sɛɲ/	—	saignons /sɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /se.ɲɔ̃/	saignez /sɛ.ɲe/ or /se.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: 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).

Synonyms

• exsanguiner (drain blood)

Derived terms

• saigner à blanc

Related terms

• saignée
• sang

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• engrais, graines, ingéras, régnais, resigna, résigna, seringa, signera