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clairsemer
clairsemer
French
Verb
clairsemer
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 clairsème rather than *il clairseme. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of clairsemer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | clairsemer | avoir clairsemé | |||||
| gerund | en clairsemant | en ayant clairsemé | |||||
| present participle | clairsemant /klɛʁ.sə.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | clairsemé /klɛʁ.sə.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | clairsème /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
clairsèmes /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
clairsème /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
clairsemons /klɛʁ.sə.mɔ̃/ |
clairsemez /klɛʁ.sə.me/ |
clairsèment /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
| imperfect | clairsemais /klɛʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
clairsemais /klɛʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
clairsemait /klɛʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
clairsemions /klɛʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/ |
clairsemiez /klɛʁ.sə.mje/ |
clairsemaient /klɛʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | clairsemai /klɛʁ.sə.me/ |
clairsemas /klɛʁ.sə.ma/ |
clairsema /klɛʁ.sə.ma/ |
clairsemâmes /klɛʁ.sə.mam/ |
clairsemâtes /klɛʁ.sə.mat/ |
clairsemèrent /klɛʁ.sə.mɛʁ/ |
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| future | clairsèmerai /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁe/ |
clairsèmeras /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁa/ |
clairsèmera /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁa/ |
clairsèmerons /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
clairsèmerez /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁe/ |
clairsèmeront /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | clairsèmerais /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
clairsèmerais /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
clairsèmerait /klɛʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
clairsèmerions /klɛʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
clairsèmeriez /klɛʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁje/ |
clairsèmeraient /klɛʁ.sɛm.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 | clairsème /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
clairsèmes /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
clairsème /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
clairsemions /klɛʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/ |
clairsemiez /klɛʁ.sə.mje/ |
clairsèment /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
| imperfect1 |
clairsemasse /klɛʁ.sə.mas/ |
clairsemasses /klɛʁ.sə.mas/ |
clairsemât /klɛʁ.sə.ma/ |
clairsemassions /klɛʁ.sə.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
clairsemassiez /klɛʁ.sə.ma.sje/ |
clairsemassent /klɛʁ.sə.mas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | clairsème /klɛʁ.sɛm/ |
— | clairsemons /klɛʁ.sə.mɔ̃/ |
clairsemez /klɛʁ.sə.me/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||