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montrer
montrer
French
Verb
montrer
Conjugation
  Conjugation of montrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | montrer | avoir montré | |||||
| gerund | en montrant | en ayant montré | |||||
| present participle |  montrant /mɔ̃.tʁɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  montré /mɔ̃.tʁe/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  montre /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
 montres /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
 montre /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
 montrons /mɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/  | 
 montrez /mɔ̃.tʁe/  | 
 montrent /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
| imperfect |  montrais /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/  | 
 montrais /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/  | 
 montrait /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/  | 
 montrions /mɔ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/  | 
 montriez /mɔ̃.tʁi.je/  | 
 montraient /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  montrai /mɔ̃.tʁe/  | 
montras /mɔ̃.tʁa/  | 
montra /mɔ̃.tʁa/  | 
montrâmes /mɔ̃.tʁam/  | 
montrâtes /mɔ̃.tʁat/  | 
montrèrent /mɔ̃.tʁɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  montrerai /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe/  | 
 montreras /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁa/  | 
 montrera /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁa/  | 
 montrerons /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 montrerez /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe/  | 
 montreront /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  montrerais /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 montrerais /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 montrerait /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 montrerions /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 montreriez /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁje/  | 
 montreraient /mɔ̃.tʁə.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 |  montre /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
 montres /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
 montre /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
 montrions /mɔ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/  | 
 montriez /mɔ̃.tʁi.je/  | 
 montrent /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
montrasse /mɔ̃.tʁas/  | 
montrasses /mɔ̃.tʁas/  | 
montrât /mɔ̃.tʁa/  | 
montrassions /mɔ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/  | 
montrassiez /mɔ̃.tʁa.sje/  | 
montrassent /mɔ̃.tʁas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  montre /mɔ̃tʁ/  | 
— |  montrons /mɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/  | 
 montrez /mɔ̃.tʁe/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||