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connoître
connoître
French
Verb
connoître
- Archaic spelling of connaître.
- L’homme qui veut connoître toutes choses ne se connoît pas lui-même. (Œuvres mêlées de Saint-Évremond, Paris 1865)
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the ‘i’ is given a circumflex before a ‘t’. This conjugation pattern is no longer in use and has been replaced by -aître.
Conjugation of connoître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | connoître | avoir connu | |||||
| gerund | en connoissant | en ayant connu | |||||
| present participle | connoissant /kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | connu /kɔ.ny/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | connois /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connois /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connoît /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connoissons /kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
connoissez /kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
connoissent /kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect | connoissais /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
connoissais /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
connoissait /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
connoissions /kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
connoissiez /kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
connoissaient /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | connus /kɔ.ny/ |
connus /kɔ.ny/ |
connut /kɔ.ny/ |
connûmes /kɔ.nym/ |
connûtes /kɔ.nyt/ |
connurent /kɔ.nyʁ/ |
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| future | connoîtrai /kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
connoîtras /kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
connoîtra /kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
connoîtrons /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
connoîtrez /kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
connoîtront /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | connoîtrais /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
connoîtrais /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
connoîtrait /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
connoîtrions /kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
connoîtriez /kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ |
connoîtraient /kɔ.nɛ.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 | connoisse /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connoisses /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connoisse /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connoissions /kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
connoissiez /kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
connoissent /kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect1 |
connusse /kɔ.nys/ |
connusses /kɔ.nys/ |
connût /kɔ.ny/ |
connussions /kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/ |
connussiez /kɔ.ny.sje/ |
connussent /kɔ.nys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | connois /kɔ.nɛ/ |
— | connoissons /kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
connoissez /kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
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