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caractériser
caractériser
French
Verb
caractériser
- to characterize
Conjugation
Conjugation of caractériser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | caractériser | avoir caractérisé | |||||
| gerund | en caractérisant | en ayant caractérisé | |||||
| present participle | caractérisant /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | caractérisé /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérises /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérisons /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɔ̃/ |
caractérisez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ |
caractérisent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect | caractérisais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
caractérisais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
caractérisait /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
caractérisions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
caractérisiez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zje/ |
caractérisaient /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | caractérisai /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ |
caractérisas /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za/ |
caractérisa /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za/ |
caractérisâmes /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zam/ |
caractérisâtes /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zat/ |
caractérisèrent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛʁ/ |
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| future | caractériserai /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁe/ |
caractériseras /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁa/ |
caractérisera /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁa/ |
caractériserons /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
caractériserez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁe/ |
caractériseront /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | caractériserais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
caractériserais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
caractériserait /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
caractériserions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
caractériseriez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zə.ʁje/ |
caractériseraient /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.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 | caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérises /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérisions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
caractérisiez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zje/ |
caractérisent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect1 |
caractérisasse /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zas/ |
caractérisasses /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zas/ |
caractérisât /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za/ |
caractérisassions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/ |
caractérisassiez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za.sje/ |
caractérisassent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
— | caractérisons /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɔ̃/ |
caractérisez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ |
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