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espacer
espacer
French
Verb
espacer
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of espacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | espacer | avoir espacé | |||||
| gerund | en espaçant | en ayant espacé | |||||
| present participle | espaçant /ɛs.pa.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | espacé /ɛs.pa.se/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | espace /ɛs.pas/ |
espaces /ɛs.pas/ |
espace /ɛs.pas/ |
espaçons /ɛs.pa.sɔ̃/ |
espacez /ɛs.pa.se/ |
espacent /ɛs.pas/ |
| imperfect | espaçais /ɛs.pa.sɛ/ |
espaçais /ɛs.pa.sɛ/ |
espaçait /ɛs.pa.sɛ/ |
espacions /ɛs.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
espaciez /ɛs.pa.sje/ |
espaçaient /ɛs.pa.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | espaçai /ɛs.pa.se/ |
espaças /ɛs.pa.sa/ |
espaça /ɛs.pa.sa/ |
espaçâmes /ɛs.pa.sam/ |
espaçâtes /ɛs.pa.sat/ |
espacèrent /ɛs.pa.sɛʁ/ |
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| future | espacerai /ɛs.pa.sʁe/ |
espaceras /ɛs.pa.sʁa/ |
espacera /ɛs.pa.sʁa/ |
espacerons /ɛs.pa.sʁɔ̃/ |
espacerez /ɛs.pa.sʁe/ |
espaceront /ɛs.pa.sʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | espacerais /ɛs.pa.sʁɛ/ |
espacerais /ɛs.pa.sʁɛ/ |
espacerait /ɛs.pa.sʁɛ/ |
espacerions /ɛs.pa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
espaceriez /ɛs.pa.sə.ʁje/ |
espaceraient /ɛs.pa.sʁɛ/ |
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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 | espace /ɛs.pas/ |
espaces /ɛs.pas/ |
espace /ɛs.pas/ |
espacions /ɛs.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
espaciez /ɛs.pa.sje/ |
espacent /ɛs.pas/ |
| imperfect1 |
espaçasse /ɛs.pa.sas/ |
espaçasses /ɛs.pa.sas/ |
espaçât /ɛs.pa.sa/ |
espaçassions /ɛs.pa.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
espaçassiez /ɛs.pa.sa.sje/ |
espaçassent /ɛs.pa.sas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | espace /ɛs.pas/ |
— | espaçons /ɛs.pa.sɔ̃/ |
espacez /ɛs.pa.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||