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exagérer
exagérer
French
Verb
exagérer
- to exaggerate
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 exagérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written exagèrer-, 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 exagérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | exagérer | avoir exagéré | |||||
| gerund | en exagérant | en ayant exagéré | |||||
| present participle | exagérant /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | exagéré /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.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 | exagère /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
exagères /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
exagère /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
exagérons /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/ |
exagérez /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁe/ |
exagèrent /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | exagérais /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
exagérais /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
exagérait /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
exagérions /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
exagériez /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁje/ |
exagéraient /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | exagérai /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁe/ |
exagéras /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁa/ |
exagéra /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁa/ |
exagérâmes /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁam/ |
exagérâtes /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁat/ |
exagérèrent /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | exagèrerai or exagérerai /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
exagèreras or exagéreras /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
exagèrera or exagérera /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
exagèrerons or exagérerons /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
exagèrerez or exagérerez /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
exagèreront or exagéreront /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | exagèrerais or exagérerais /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
exagèrerais or exagérerais /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
exagèrerait or exagérerait /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
exagèrerions or exagérerions /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
exagèreriez or exagéreriez /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
exagèreraient or exagéreraient /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛ.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 | exagère /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
exagères /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
exagère /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
exagérions /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
exagériez /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁje/ |
exagèrent /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
exagérasse /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁas/ |
exagérasses /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁas/ |
exagérât /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁa/ |
exagérassions /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
exagérassiez /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁa.sje/ |
exagérassent /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.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 | – | |
| — | exagère /ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ/ |
— | exagérons /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/ |
exagérez /ɛɡ.za.ʒe.ʁe/ |
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