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commérer
commérer
French
Verb
commérer
- to gossip; to talk about others' personal information.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written commérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written commèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of commérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | commérer | avoir comméré | |||||
| gerund | en commérant | en ayant comméré | |||||
| present participle | commérant /kɔ.me.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | comméré /kɔ.me.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | commère /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
commères /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
commère /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
commérons /kɔ.me.ʁɔ̃/ |
commérez /kɔ.me.ʁe/ |
commèrent /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | commérais /kɔ.me.ʁɛ/ |
commérais /kɔ.me.ʁɛ/ |
commérait /kɔ.me.ʁɛ/ |
commérions /kɔ.me.ʁjɔ̃/ |
commériez /kɔ.me.ʁje/ |
comméraient /kɔ.me.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | commérai /kɔ.me.ʁe/ |
comméras /kɔ.me.ʁa/ |
comméra /kɔ.me.ʁa/ |
commérâmes /kɔ.me.ʁam/ |
commérâtes /kɔ.me.ʁat/ |
commérèrent /kɔ.me.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | commèrerai or commérerai /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
commèreras or comméreras /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
commèrera or commérera /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
commèrerons or commérerons /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
commèrerez or commérerez /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
commèreront or comméreront /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | commèrerais or commérerais /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
commèrerais or commérerais /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
commèrerait or commérerait /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
commèrerions or commérerions /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
commèreriez or comméreriez /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
commèreraient or comméreraient /kɔ.mɛ.ʁə.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 | commère /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
commères /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
commère /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
commérions /kɔ.me.ʁjɔ̃/ |
commériez /kɔ.me.ʁje/ |
commèrent /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
commérasse /kɔ.me.ʁas/ |
commérasses /kɔ.me.ʁas/ |
commérât /kɔ.me.ʁa/ |
commérassions /kɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
commérassiez /kɔ.me.ʁa.sje/ |
commérassent /kɔ.me.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | commère /kɔ.mɛʁ/ |
— | commérons /kɔ.me.ʁɔ̃/ |
commérez /kɔ.me.ʁe/ |
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