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gercer
gercer
French
Verb
gercer
- (transitive, intransitive) to chap, become chapped
 
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
  Conjugation of gercer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | gercer | avoir gercé | |||||
| gerund | en gerçant | en ayant gercé | |||||
| present participle |  gerçant /ʒɛʁ.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  gercé /ʒɛʁ.se/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  gerce /ʒɛʁs/  | 
 gerces /ʒɛʁs/  | 
 gerce /ʒɛʁs/  | 
 gerçons /ʒɛʁ.sɔ̃/  | 
 gercez /ʒɛʁ.se/  | 
 gercent /ʒɛʁs/  | 
| imperfect |  gerçais /ʒɛʁ.sɛ/  | 
 gerçais /ʒɛʁ.sɛ/  | 
 gerçait /ʒɛʁ.sɛ/  | 
 gercions /ʒɛʁ.sjɔ̃/  | 
 gerciez /ʒɛʁ.sje/  | 
 gerçaient /ʒɛʁ.sɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  gerçai /ʒɛʁ.se/  | 
gerças /ʒɛʁ.sa/  | 
gerça /ʒɛʁ.sa/  | 
gerçâmes /ʒɛʁ.sam/  | 
gerçâtes /ʒɛʁ.sat/  | 
gercèrent /ʒɛʁ.sɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  gercerai /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁe/  | 
 gerceras /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁa/  | 
 gercera /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁa/  | 
 gercerons /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 gercerez /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁe/  | 
 gerceront /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  gercerais /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/  | 
 gercerais /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/  | 
 gercerait /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/  | 
 gercerions /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 gerceriez /ʒɛʁ.sə.ʁje/  | 
 gerceraient /ʒɛʁ.sə.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 |  gerce /ʒɛʁs/  | 
 gerces /ʒɛʁs/  | 
 gerce /ʒɛʁs/  | 
 gercions /ʒɛʁ.sjɔ̃/  | 
 gerciez /ʒɛʁ.sje/  | 
 gercent /ʒɛʁs/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
gerçasse /ʒɛʁ.sas/  | 
gerçasses /ʒɛʁ.sas/  | 
gerçât /ʒɛʁ.sa/  | 
gerçassions /ʒɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/  | 
gerçassiez /ʒɛʁ.sa.sje/  | 
gerçassent /ʒɛʁ.sas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  gerce /ʒɛʁs/  | 
— |  gerçons /ʒɛʁ.sɔ̃/  | 
 gercez /ʒɛʁ.se/  | 
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