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éclore
éclore
French
Verb
éclore
- to hatch (for an egg)
 - to bloom (for a flower)
 - (figuratively) To hatch (to start, to begin existence)
 
Conjugation
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
  Conjugation of éclore (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | éclore | avoir éclos | |||||
| gerund | en éclosant | en ayant éclos | |||||
| present participle |  éclosant /e.klo.zɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  éclos /e.klo/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  éclos /e.klo/  | 
 éclos /e.klo/  | 
 éclôt /e.klo/  | 
 éclosons /e.klo.zɔ̃/  | 
 éclosez /e.klo.ze/  | 
 éclosent /e.kloz/  | 
| imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| past historic1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future |  éclorai /e.klɔ.ʁe/  | 
 écloras /e.klɔ.ʁa/  | 
 éclora /e.klɔ.ʁa/  | 
 éclorons /e.klɔ.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 éclorez /e.klɔ.ʁe/  | 
 écloront /e.klɔ.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  éclorais /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
 éclorais /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
 éclorait /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
 éclorions /e.klɔ.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 écloriez /e.klɔ.ʁje/  | 
 écloraient /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/  | 
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|  compound tenses  | 
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  éclose /e.kloz/  | 
 écloses /e.kloz/  | 
 éclose /e.kloz/  | 
 éclosions /e.klo.zjɔ̃/  | 
 éclosiez /e.klo.zje/  | 
 éclosent /e.kloz/  | 
| imperfect1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
|  compound tenses  | 
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — |  éclos /e.klo/  | 
— |  éclosons /e.klo.zɔ̃/  | 
 éclosez /e.klo.ze/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||