téléphoné

Télophoné is the past participle of the French verb téléphoner, which means to phone or to call by telephone. In ordinary usage, téléphoner denotes the act of making a telephone call to someone, and téléphoné is employed when forming compound tenses such as the passé composé, plus-que-parfait, and other perfect tenses.

In standard French, the verb téléphoner requires the preposition à before its indirect object, the person being called (for example, J'ai téléphoné à Marie). Because the object of téléphoner is introduced by à rather than being a direct object, the past participle generally does not agree with a preceding direct object. Therefore, the normal form in compound tenses is téléphoné, as in J'ai téléphoné à Marie or Nous avons téléphoné hier.

Conjugation notes include that téléphoner is an -er verb, so the passé composé assembly uses the auxiliary être? No, it uses avoir: J'ai téléphoné, Tu as téléphoné, Il a téléphoné, Nous avons téléphoné, Vous avez téléphoné, Ils ont téléphoné. The infinitive form remains téléphoner, and the present participle is téléphonant.

Common contexts for téléphoné include reporting completed calls, specifying who was called, or indicating a past action tied to a communication. It is rarely used outside these tense forms except when studied in dictionaries or grammatical references.

See also: téléphoner; téléphone; appel téléphonique.