Occasionner
late 14c., occasioun, 'opportunity; grounds for action or feeling; state of affairs that makes something else possible; a happening, occurrence leading to some result,' from Old French ochaison, ocasion 'cause, reason, excuse, pretext; opportunity' (13c.) or directly from Latin occasionem (nominative occasio) 'opportunity, appropriate time,' in Late Latin 'cause,' from occasum, occasus, past participle of occidere 'fall down, go down,' from ob 'down, away' (see ob-) + -cidere, combining form of cadere 'to fall' (from PIE root *kad- 'to fall'). The notion is of a 'falling together,' or juncture, of circumstances. The sense of 'the time or a time at which something happens' is from 1560s.
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occasion (v.)
mid-15c., occasionen, 'to bring (something) about, be the cause of (something),' from occasion (n.), or else from Old French occasionner 'to cause,' from Medieval Latin occasionare, from Latin occasionem (see occasion (n.)). Related: Occasioned; occasioning.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From occasion + -er. Displaced the inherited Old French ochoisonner.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.ne/
Audio
Verb[edit]
occasionner
- to provoke, to cause
- Synonyms:provoquer, causer, entraîner
Conjugation[edit]
| infinitive | simple | occasionner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | occasionnant /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | occasionné /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | occasionne /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | occasionnes /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | occasionne /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | occasionnons /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɔ̃/ | occasionnez /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.ne/ | occasionnent /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ |
| imperfect | occasionnais /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɛ/ | occasionnais /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɛ/ | occasionnait /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɛ/ | occasionnions /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.njɔ̃/ | occasionniez /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nje/ | occasionnaient /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | occasionnai /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.ne/ | occasionnas /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.na/ | occasionna /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.na/ | occasionnâmes /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nam/ | occasionnâtes /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nat/ | occasionnèrent /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | occasionnerai /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁe/ | occasionneras /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁa/ | occasionnera /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁa/ | occasionnerons /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | occasionnerez /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁe/ | occasionneront /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | occasionnerais /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁɛ/ | occasionnerais /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁɛ/ | occasionnerait /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.ʁɛ/ | occasionnerions /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | occasionneriez /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nə.ʁje/ | occasionneraient /ɔ.ka.zjɔn.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 | occasionne /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | occasionnes /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | occasionne /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | occasionnions /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.njɔ̃/ | occasionniez /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nje/ | occasionnent /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | occasionnasse /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nas/ | occasionnasses /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nas/ | occasionnât /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.na/ | occasionnassions /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | occasionnassiez /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.na.sje/ | occasionnassent /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | occasionne /ɔ.ka.zjɔn/ | — | occasionnons /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.nɔ̃/ | occasionnez /ɔ.ka.zjɔ.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
Occasionner
- “occasionner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).