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tailler
tailler
French
Verb
tailler
Conjugation
  Conjugation of tailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | tailler | avoir taillé | |||||
| gerund | en taillant | en ayant taillé | |||||
| present participle |  taillant /ta.jɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  taillé /ta.je/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  taille /taj/  | 
 tailles /taj/  | 
 taille /taj/  | 
 taillons /ta.jɔ̃/  | 
 taillez /ta.je/  | 
 taillent /taj/  | 
| imperfect |  taillais /ta.jɛ/  | 
 taillais /ta.jɛ/  | 
 taillait /ta.jɛ/  | 
 taillions /taj.jɔ̃/  | 
 tailliez /taj.je/  | 
 taillaient /ta.jɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  taillai /ta.je/  | 
taillas /ta.ja/  | 
tailla /ta.ja/  | 
taillâmes /ta.jam/  | 
taillâtes /ta.jat/  | 
taillèrent /ta.jɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  taillerai /taj.ʁe/  | 
 tailleras /taj.ʁa/  | 
 taillera /taj.ʁa/  | 
 taillerons /taj.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 taillerez /taj.ʁe/  | 
 tailleront /taj.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  taillerais /taj.ʁɛ/  | 
 taillerais /taj.ʁɛ/  | 
 taillerait /taj.ʁɛ/  | 
 taillerions /ta.jə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 tailleriez /ta.jə.ʁje/  | 
 tailleraient /taj.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 |  taille /taj/  | 
 tailles /taj/  | 
 taille /taj/  | 
 taillions /taj.jɔ̃/  | 
 tailliez /taj.je/  | 
 taillent /taj/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
taillasse /ta.jas/  | 
taillasses /ta.jas/  | 
taillât /ta.ja/  | 
taillassions /ta.ja.sjɔ̃/  | 
taillassiez /ta.ja.sje/  | 
taillassent /ta.jas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  taille /taj/  | 
— |  taillons /ta.jɔ̃/  | 
 taillez /ta.je/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||