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cacheter
cacheter
French
Verb
cacheter
- (transitive) to seal
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il cachète rather than *il cachete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of cacheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cacheter | avoir cacheté | |||||
| gerund | en cachetant | en ayant cacheté | |||||
| present participle | cachetant /kaʃ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | cacheté /kaʃ.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 | cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachètes /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachetons /kaʃ.tɔ̃/ |
cachetez /kaʃ.te/ |
cachètent /ka.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect | cachetais /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
cachetais /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
cachetait /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
cachetions /ka.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
cachetiez /ka.ʃə.tje/ |
cachetaient /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cachetai /kaʃ.te/ |
cachetas /kaʃ.ta/ |
cacheta /kaʃ.ta/ |
cachetâmes /kaʃ.tam/ |
cachetâtes /kaʃ.tat/ |
cachetèrent /kaʃ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | cachèterai /ka.ʃɛ.tʁe/ |
cachèteras /ka.ʃɛ.tʁa/ |
cachètera /ka.ʃɛ.tʁa/ |
cachèterons /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
cachèterez /ka.ʃɛ.tʁe/ |
cachèteront /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cachèterais /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
cachèterais /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
cachèterait /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
cachèterions /ka.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cachèteriez /ka.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
cachèteraient /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachètes /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachetions /ka.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
cachetiez /ka.ʃə.tje/ |
cachètent /ka.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
cachetasse /kaʃ.tas/ |
cachetasses /kaʃ.tas/ |
cachetât /kaʃ.ta/ |
cachetassions /kaʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cachetassiez /kaʃ.ta.sje/ |
cachetassent /kaʃ.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 | – | |
| — | cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
— | cachetons /kaʃ.tɔ̃/ |
cachetez /kaʃ.te/ |
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