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libérer
libérer
See also: liberer
French
Verb
libérer
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written libérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written libèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of libérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | libérer | avoir libéré | |||||
| gerund | en libérant | en ayant libéré | |||||
| present participle | libérant /li.be.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | libéré /li.be.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | libère /li.bɛʁ/ |
libères /li.bɛʁ/ |
libère /li.bɛʁ/ |
libérons /li.be.ʁɔ̃/ |
libérez /li.be.ʁe/ |
libèrent /li.bɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | libérais /li.be.ʁɛ/ |
libérais /li.be.ʁɛ/ |
libérait /li.be.ʁɛ/ |
libérions /li.be.ʁjɔ̃/ |
libériez /li.be.ʁje/ |
libéraient /li.be.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | libérai /li.be.ʁe/ |
libéras /li.be.ʁa/ |
libéra /li.be.ʁa/ |
libérâmes /li.be.ʁam/ |
libérâtes /li.be.ʁat/ |
libérèrent /li.be.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | libèrerai or libérerai /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
libèreras or libéreras /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
libèrera or libérera /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
libèrerons or libérerons /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
libèrerez or libérerez /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
libèreront or libéreront /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | libèrerais or libérerais /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
libèrerais or libérerais /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
libèrerait or libérerait /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
libèrerions or libérerions /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
libèreriez or libéreriez /li.bɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
libèreraient or libéreraient /li.bɛ.ʁə.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 | libère /li.bɛʁ/ |
libères /li.bɛʁ/ |
libère /li.bɛʁ/ |
libérions /li.be.ʁjɔ̃/ |
libériez /li.be.ʁje/ |
libèrent /li.bɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
libérasse /li.be.ʁas/ |
libérasses /li.be.ʁas/ |
libérât /li.be.ʁa/ |
libérassions /li.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
libérassiez /li.be.ʁa.sje/ |
libérassent /li.be.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | libère /li.bɛʁ/ |
— | libérons /li.be.ʁɔ̃/ |
libérez /li.be.ʁe/ |
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