abonne

Abonné is a French noun and adjective form related to subscription. As a noun, masculine abonné and feminine abonnée denote a person who subscribes to a service, publication, or membership. In everyday use it often refers to customers of newspapers, magazines, telecoms, streaming services, or other subscription-based offerings. The term emphasizes the ongoing relationship between the subscriber and the service.

As a verb, abonner means to subscribe someone to a service or publication, or to subscribe oneself to a service when used in the reflexive form s’abonner. The form abonne appears in the present tense for the third-person singular, as in il abonne un client, and in the first person singular as j’abonne (with elision). The reflexive form s’abonner means to subscribe oneself, typically written as je m’abonne or tu t’abonnes.

Morphology and usage notes: the masculine singular noun is abonné, the feminine singular is abonnée, the plural forms are abonnés (masc.) and abonnées (fem.). The related noun abonné is commonly seen in phrases like les abonnés d’un journal or l’abonnement, which refers to the act or system of subscribing. In many contexts, especially media and telecom, “abonné” is preferred to denote a subscriber rather than a casual reader.

Etymology and related terms: abonné derives from the verb abonner, which is built from the same root as abonnement, the noun for a subscription. Abonnement, abonnements (plural), is the concept or contract of subscribing, while abonné/abonnée designates the person who holds that status.