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avorter
avorter
French
Verb
avorter
- (intransitive, of a mission and etc) to abort, to terminate
- (intransitive, of a female) to have an abortion
- (causative) to abort, to terminate
- (causative) to cause an abortion
- Elle a fait avorter le bébé. — She aborted the baby.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of avorter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | avorter | avoir avorté | |||||
| gerund | en avortant | en ayant avorté | |||||
| present participle | avortant /a.vɔʁ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | avorté /a.vɔʁ.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortes /a.vɔʁt/ |
avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortons /a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
avortez /a.vɔʁ.te/ |
avortent /a.vɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | avortais /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
avortais /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
avortait /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
avortions /a.vɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
avortiez /a.vɔʁ.tje/ |
avortaient /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | avortai /a.vɔʁ.te/ |
avortas /a.vɔʁ.ta/ |
avorta /a.vɔʁ.ta/ |
avortâmes /a.vɔʁ.tam/ |
avortâtes /a.vɔʁ.tat/ |
avortèrent /a.vɔʁ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | avorterai /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
avorteras /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
avortera /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
avorterons /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
avorterez /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
avorteront /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | avorterais /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
avorterais /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
avorterait /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
avorterions /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
avorteriez /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
avorteraient /a.vɔʁ.tə.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 | avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortes /a.vɔʁt/ |
avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortions /a.vɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
avortiez /a.vɔʁ.tje/ |
avortent /a.vɔʁt/ |
| imperfect1 |
avortasse /a.vɔʁ.tas/ |
avortasses /a.vɔʁ.tas/ |
avortât /a.vɔʁ.ta/ |
avortassions /a.vɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
avortassiez /a.vɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
avortassent /a.vɔʁ.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
— | avortons /a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
avortez /a.vɔʁ.te/ |
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