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cancaner
cancaner
French
Verb
cancaner
Conjugation
  Conjugation of cancaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cancaner | avoir cancané | |||||
| gerund | en cancanant | en ayant cancané | |||||
| present participle |  cancanant /kɑ̃.ka.nɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  cancané /kɑ̃.ka.ne/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  cancane /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
 cancanes /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
 cancane /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
 cancanons /kɑ̃.ka.nɔ̃/  | 
 cancanez /kɑ̃.ka.ne/  | 
 cancanent /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
| imperfect |  cancanais /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/  | 
 cancanais /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/  | 
 cancanait /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/  | 
 cancanions /kɑ̃.ka.njɔ̃/  | 
 cancaniez /kɑ̃.ka.nje/  | 
 cancanaient /kɑ̃.ka.nɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  cancanai /kɑ̃.ka.ne/  | 
cancanas /kɑ̃.ka.na/  | 
cancana /kɑ̃.ka.na/  | 
cancanâmes /kɑ̃.ka.nam/  | 
cancanâtes /kɑ̃.ka.nat/  | 
cancanèrent /kɑ̃.ka.nɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  cancanerai /kɑ̃.kan.ʁe/  | 
 cancaneras /kɑ̃.kan.ʁa/  | 
 cancanera /kɑ̃.kan.ʁa/  | 
 cancanerons /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 cancanerez /kɑ̃.kan.ʁe/  | 
 cancaneront /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  cancanerais /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/  | 
 cancanerais /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/  | 
 cancanerait /kɑ̃.kan.ʁɛ/  | 
 cancanerions /kɑ̃.ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 cancaneriez /kɑ̃.ka.nə.ʁje/  | 
 cancaneraient /kɑ̃.kan.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 |  cancane /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
 cancanes /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
 cancane /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
 cancanions /kɑ̃.ka.njɔ̃/  | 
 cancaniez /kɑ̃.ka.nje/  | 
 cancanent /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
cancanasse /kɑ̃.ka.nas/  | 
cancanasses /kɑ̃.ka.nas/  | 
cancanât /kɑ̃.ka.na/  | 
cancanassions /kɑ̃.ka.na.sjɔ̃/  | 
cancanassiez /kɑ̃.ka.na.sje/  | 
cancanassent /kɑ̃.ka.nas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  cancane /kɑ̃.kan/  | 
— |  cancanons /kɑ̃.ka.nɔ̃/  | 
 cancanez /kɑ̃.ka.ne/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||