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connaitre
connaitre
See also: connaître
French
Verb
connaitre
- Alternative spelling of connaître
Usage notes
This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are conjugated the same as the alternative spelling, which has a circumflex over the ‘i’, except that the circumflex is dropped here.
Conjugation of connaitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | connaitre | avoir connu | |||||
| gerund | en connaissant | en ayant connu | |||||
| present participle | connaissant /kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | connu /kɔ.ny/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | connais /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connais /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connait /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connaissons /kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
connaissez /kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
connaissent /kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect | connaissais /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
connaissais /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
connaissait /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
connaissions /kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
connaissiez /kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
connaissaient /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | connus /kɔ.ny/ |
connus /kɔ.ny/ |
connut /kɔ.ny/ |
connûmes /kɔ.nym/ |
connûtes /kɔ.nyt/ |
connurent /kɔ.nyʁ/ |
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| future | connaitrai /kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
connaitras /kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
connaitra /kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
connaitrons /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
connaitrez /kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
connaitront /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | connaitrais /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
connaitrais /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
connaitrait /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
connaitrions /kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
connaitriez /kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ |
connaitraient /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | connaisse /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connaisses /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connaisse /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connaissions /kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
connaissiez /kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
connaissent /kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect1 |
connusse /kɔ.nys/ |
connusses /kɔ.nys/ |
connût /kɔ.ny/ |
connussions /kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/ |
connussiez /kɔ.ny.sje/ |
connussent /kɔ.nys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | connais /kɔ.nɛ/ |
— | connaissons /kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
connaissez /kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
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