ignorer

English

Etymology

From ignore +‎ -er.

Noun

ignorer (plural ignorers)

1. One who ignores.
   • 2008 January 20, Lauren Fox, “Political Football”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     THESE days it seems to me, a passionate ignorer of football, that all anyone can talk about around here are the Green Bay Packers.

Danish

Verb

ignorer or ignorér

1. imperative of ignorere

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īgnōrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɲɔ.ʁe/

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Verb

ignorer

1. to ignore
2. to be unaware of, to be ignorant of

Conjugation

Conjugation of ignorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ignorer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ignorant /i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ignoré /i.ɲɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ignore /i.ɲɔʁ/	ignores /i.ɲɔʁ/	ignore /i.ɲɔʁ/	ignorons /i.ɲɔ.ʁɔ̃/	ignorez /i.ɲɔ.ʁe/	ignorent /i.ɲɔʁ/
	imperfect	ignorais /i.ɲɔ.ʁɛ/	ignorais /i.ɲɔ.ʁɛ/	ignorait /i.ɲɔ.ʁɛ/	ignorions /i.ɲɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	ignoriez /i.ɲɔ.ʁje/	ignoraient /i.ɲɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	ignorai /i.ɲɔ.ʁe/	ignoras /i.ɲɔ.ʁa/	ignora /i.ɲɔ.ʁa/	ignorâmes /i.ɲɔ.ʁam/	ignorâtes /i.ɲɔ.ʁat/	ignorèrent /i.ɲɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	ignorerai /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	ignoreras /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	ignorera /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	ignorerons /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ignorerez /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	ignoreront /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ignorerais /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ignorerais /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ignorerait /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ignorerions /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ignoreriez /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	ignoreraient /i.ɲɔ.ʁə.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	ignore /i.ɲɔʁ/	ignores /i.ɲɔʁ/	ignore /i.ɲɔʁ/	ignorions /i.ɲɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	ignoriez /i.ɲɔ.ʁje/	ignorent /i.ɲɔʁ/
	imperfect2	ignorasse /i.ɲɔ.ʁas/	ignorasses /i.ɲɔ.ʁas/	ignorât /i.ɲɔ.ʁa/	ignorassions /i.ɲɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	ignorassiez /i.ɲɔ.ʁa.sje/	ignorassent /i.ɲɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ignore /i.ɲɔʁ/	—	ignorons /i.ɲɔ.ʁɔ̃/	ignorez /i.ɲɔ.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ignorant
  • ignorance
• ne pas être sans ignorer
• nul n’est censé ignorer la loi

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

ignōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ignōrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ignorer

1. imperative of ignorere