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excréter
excréter
See also: excreter
French
Verb
excréter
- to excrete
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 excréter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written excrèter-, 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 excréter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | excréter | avoir excrété | |||||
| gerund | en excrétant | en ayant excrété | |||||
| present participle | excrétant /ɛk.skʁe.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | excrété /ɛk.skʁe.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | excrète /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
excrètes /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
excrète /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
excrétons /ɛk.skʁe.tɔ̃/ |
excrétez /ɛk.skʁe.te/ |
excrètent /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | excrétais /ɛk.skʁe.tɛ/ |
excrétais /ɛk.skʁe.tɛ/ |
excrétait /ɛk.skʁe.tɛ/ |
excrétions /ɛk.skʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
excrétiez /ɛk.skʁe.tje/ |
excrétaient /ɛk.skʁe.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | excrétai /ɛk.skʁe.te/ |
excrétas /ɛk.skʁe.ta/ |
excréta /ɛk.skʁe.ta/ |
excrétâmes /ɛk.skʁe.tam/ |
excrétâtes /ɛk.skʁe.tat/ |
excrétèrent /ɛk.skʁe.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | excrèterai or excréterai /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁe/ |
excrèteras or excréteras /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁa/ |
excrètera or excrétera /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁa/ |
excrèterons or excréterons /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
excrèterez or excréterez /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁe/ |
excrèteront or excréteront /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | excrèterais or excréterais /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
excrèterais or excréterais /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
excrèterait or excréterait /ɛk.skʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
excrèterions or excréterions /ɛk.skʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
excrèteriez or excréteriez /ɛk.skʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
excrèteraient or excréteraient /ɛk.skʁɛ.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 | excrète /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
excrètes /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
excrète /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
excrétions /ɛk.skʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
excrétiez /ɛk.skʁe.tje/ |
excrètent /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
excrétasse /ɛk.skʁe.tas/ |
excrétasses /ɛk.skʁe.tas/ |
excrétât /ɛk.skʁe.ta/ |
excrétassions /ɛk.skʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
excrétassiez /ɛk.skʁe.ta.sje/ |
excrétassent /ɛk.skʁe.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | excrète /ɛk.skʁɛt/ |
— | excrétons /ɛk.skʁe.tɔ̃/ |
excrétez /ɛk.skʁe.te/ |
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