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exprimer
exprimer
French
Verb
exprimer
- (transitive) to express
- (reflexive, s'exprimer) to express oneself
- Guardiola préfère les vestiaires et le terrain pour s'exprimer.
- Guardiola prefers to express himself in the dressing room and on the pitch.
- Guardiola préfère les vestiaires et le terrain pour s'exprimer.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of exprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | exprimer | avoir exprimé | |||||
| gerund | en exprimant | en ayant exprimé | |||||
| present participle | exprimant /ɛk.spʁi.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | exprimé /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimes /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimons /ɛk.spʁi.mɔ̃/ |
exprimez /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
expriment /ɛk.spʁim/ |
| imperfect | exprimais /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
exprimais /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
exprimait /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
exprimions /ɛk.spʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
exprimiez /ɛk.spʁi.mje/ |
exprimaient /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | exprimai /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
exprimas /ɛk.spʁi.ma/ |
exprima /ɛk.spʁi.ma/ |
exprimâmes /ɛk.spʁi.mam/ |
exprimâtes /ɛk.spʁi.mat/ |
exprimèrent /ɛk.spʁi.mɛʁ/ |
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| future | exprimerai /ɛk.spʁim.ʁe/ |
exprimeras /ɛk.spʁim.ʁa/ |
exprimera /ɛk.spʁim.ʁa/ |
exprimerons /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
exprimerez /ɛk.spʁim.ʁe/ |
exprimeront /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | exprimerais /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɛ/ |
exprimerais /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɛ/ |
exprimerait /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɛ/ |
exprimerions /ɛk.spʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
exprimeriez /ɛk.spʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
exprimeraient /ɛk.spʁim.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 | exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimes /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimions /ɛk.spʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
exprimiez /ɛk.spʁi.mje/ |
expriment /ɛk.spʁim/ |
| imperfect1 |
exprimasse /ɛk.spʁi.mas/ |
exprimasses /ɛk.spʁi.mas/ |
exprimât /ɛk.spʁi.ma/ |
exprimassions /ɛk.spʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
exprimassiez /ɛk.spʁi.ma.sje/ |
exprimassent /ɛk.spʁi.mas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
— | exprimons /ɛk.spʁi.mɔ̃/ |
exprimez /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
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