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apprivoiser
apprivoiser
French
Verb
apprivoiser
- to tame
- 1875, Georges Bizet, Carment, Act I:
- L’amour est un oiseau rebelle / Que nul ne peut apprivoiser, / […]
- Love is a rebellious bird / That none can tame, / […]
- L’amour est un oiseau rebelle / Que nul ne peut apprivoiser, / […]
- 1943, Antoine de Saint-Expupéry, Le Petit Prince
- Viens jouer avec moi, lui proposa le petit prince. […] Je ne puis pas jouer avec toi, dit le renard. Je ne suis pas apprivoisé.
- 1875, Georges Bizet, Carment, Act I:
Conjugation
Conjugation of apprivoiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | apprivoiser | avoir apprivoisé | |||||
| gerund | en apprivoisant | en ayant apprivoisé | |||||
| present participle | apprivoisant /a.pʁi.vwa.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | apprivoisé /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
apprivoises /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
apprivoisons /a.pʁi.vwa.zɔ̃/ |
apprivoisez /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/ |
apprivoisent /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
| imperfect | apprivoisais /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/ |
apprivoisais /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/ |
apprivoisait /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/ |
apprivoisions /a.pʁi.vwa.zjɔ̃/ |
apprivoisiez /a.pʁi.vwa.zje/ |
apprivoisaient /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | apprivoisai /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/ |
apprivoisas /a.pʁi.vwa.za/ |
apprivoisa /a.pʁi.vwa.za/ |
apprivoisâmes /a.pʁi.vwa.zam/ |
apprivoisâtes /a.pʁi.vwa.zat/ |
apprivoisèrent /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛʁ/ |
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| future | apprivoiserai /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁe/ |
apprivoiseras /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁa/ |
apprivoisera /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁa/ |
apprivoiserons /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɔ̃/ |
apprivoiserez /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁe/ |
apprivoiseront /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | apprivoiserais /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɛ/ |
apprivoiserais /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɛ/ |
apprivoiserait /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɛ/ |
apprivoiserions /a.pʁi.vwa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
apprivoiseriez /a.pʁi.vwa.zə.ʁje/ |
apprivoiseraient /a.pʁi.vwaz.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 | apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
apprivoises /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
apprivoisions /a.pʁi.vwa.zjɔ̃/ |
apprivoisiez /a.pʁi.vwa.zje/ |
apprivoisent /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
| imperfect1 |
apprivoisasse /a.pʁi.vwa.zas/ |
apprivoisasses /a.pʁi.vwa.zas/ |
apprivoisât /a.pʁi.vwa.za/ |
apprivoisassions /a.pʁi.vwa.za.sjɔ̃/ |
apprivoisassiez /a.pʁi.vwa.za.sje/ |
apprivoisassent /a.pʁi.vwa.zas/ |
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| 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 | – | |
| — | apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/ |
— | apprivoisons /a.pʁi.vwa.zɔ̃/ |
apprivoisez /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||