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ébrécher
ébrécher
French
Verb
ébrécher
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 ébrécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written ébrècher-, 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 ébrécher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | ébrécher | avoir ébréché | |||||
| gerund | en ébréchant | en ayant ébréché | |||||
| present participle | ébréchant /e.bʁe.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | ébréché /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèches /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébréchons /e.bʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
ébréchez /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
ébrèchent /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | ébréchais /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
ébréchais /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
ébréchait /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
ébréchions /e.bʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
ébréchiez /e.bʁe.ʃje/ |
ébréchaient /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | ébréchai /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
ébréchas /e.bʁe.ʃa/ |
ébrécha /e.bʁe.ʃa/ |
ébréchâmes /e.bʁe.ʃam/ |
ébréchâtes /e.bʁe.ʃat/ |
ébréchèrent /e.bʁe.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | ébrècherai or ébrécherai /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
ébrècheras or ébrécheras /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
ébrèchera or ébréchera /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
ébrècherons or ébrécherons /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
ébrècherez or ébrécherez /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
ébrècheront or ébrécheront /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | ébrècherais or ébrécherais /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
ébrècherais or ébrécherais /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
ébrècherait or ébrécherait /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
ébrècherions or ébrécherions /e.bʁɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ébrècheriez or ébrécheriez /e.bʁɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
ébrècheraient or ébrécheraient /e.bʁɛʃ.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 | ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèches /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébréchions /e.bʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
ébréchiez /e.bʁe.ʃje/ |
ébrèchent /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
ébréchasse /e.bʁe.ʃas/ |
ébréchasses /e.bʁe.ʃas/ |
ébréchât /e.bʁe.ʃa/ |
ébréchassions /e.bʁe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
ébréchassiez /e.bʁe.ʃa.sje/ |
ébréchassent /e.bʁe.ʃas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
— | ébréchons /e.bʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
ébréchez /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
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