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excaver
excaver
French
Verb
excaver
- to excavate
Conjugation
Conjugation of excaver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | excaver | avoir excavé | |||||
| gerund | en excavant | en ayant excavé | |||||
| present participle | excavant /ɛk.ska.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | excavé /ɛk.ska.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | excave /ɛk.skav/ |
excaves /ɛk.skav/ |
excave /ɛk.skav/ |
excavons /ɛk.ska.vɔ̃/ |
excavez /ɛk.ska.ve/ |
excavent /ɛk.skav/ |
| imperfect | excavais /ɛk.ska.vɛ/ |
excavais /ɛk.ska.vɛ/ |
excavait /ɛk.ska.vɛ/ |
excavions /ɛk.ska.vjɔ̃/ |
excaviez /ɛk.ska.vje/ |
excavaient /ɛk.ska.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | excavai /ɛk.ska.ve/ |
excavas /ɛk.ska.va/ |
excava /ɛk.ska.va/ |
excavâmes /ɛk.ska.vam/ |
excavâtes /ɛk.ska.vat/ |
excavèrent /ɛk.ska.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | excaverai /ɛk.ska.vʁe/ |
excaveras /ɛk.ska.vʁa/ |
excavera /ɛk.ska.vʁa/ |
excaverons /ɛk.ska.vʁɔ̃/ |
excaverez /ɛk.ska.vʁe/ |
excaveront /ɛk.ska.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | excaverais /ɛk.ska.vʁɛ/ |
excaverais /ɛk.ska.vʁɛ/ |
excaverait /ɛk.ska.vʁɛ/ |
excaverions /ɛk.ska.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
excaveriez /ɛk.ska.və.ʁje/ |
excaveraient /ɛk.ska.vʁɛ/ |
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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 | excave /ɛk.skav/ |
excaves /ɛk.skav/ |
excave /ɛk.skav/ |
excavions /ɛk.ska.vjɔ̃/ |
excaviez /ɛk.ska.vje/ |
excavent /ɛk.skav/ |
| imperfect1 |
excavasse /ɛk.ska.vas/ |
excavasses /ɛk.ska.vas/ |
excavât /ɛk.ska.va/ |
excavassions /ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃/ |
excavassiez /ɛk.ska.va.sje/ |
excavassent /ɛk.ska.vas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | excave /ɛk.skav/ |
— | excavons /ɛk.ska.vɔ̃/ |
excavez /ɛk.ska.ve/ |
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