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flécher
flécher
French
Verb
flécher
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 flécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written flècher-, 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 flécher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | flécher | avoir fléché | |||||
| gerund | en fléchant | en ayant fléché | |||||
| present participle | fléchant /fle.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | fléché /fle.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | flèche /flɛʃ/ |
flèches /flɛʃ/ |
flèche /flɛʃ/ |
fléchons /fle.ʃɔ̃/ |
fléchez /fle.ʃe/ |
flèchent /flɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | fléchais /fle.ʃɛ/ |
fléchais /fle.ʃɛ/ |
fléchait /fle.ʃɛ/ |
fléchions /fle.ʃjɔ̃/ |
fléchiez /fle.ʃje/ |
fléchaient /fle.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | fléchai /fle.ʃe/ |
fléchas /fle.ʃa/ |
flécha /fle.ʃa/ |
fléchâmes /fle.ʃam/ |
fléchâtes /fle.ʃat/ |
fléchèrent /fle.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | flècherai or flécherai /flɛʃ.ʁe/ |
flècheras or flécheras /flɛʃ.ʁa/ |
flèchera or fléchera /flɛʃ.ʁa/ |
flècherons or flécherons /flɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
flècherez or flécherez /flɛʃ.ʁe/ |
flècheront or flécheront /flɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | flècherais or flécherais /flɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
flècherais or flécherais /flɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
flècherait or flécherait /flɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
flècherions or flécherions /flɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flècheriez or flécheriez /flɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
flècheraient or flécheraient /flɛʃ.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 | flèche /flɛʃ/ |
flèches /flɛʃ/ |
flèche /flɛʃ/ |
fléchions /fle.ʃjɔ̃/ |
fléchiez /fle.ʃje/ |
flèchent /flɛʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
fléchasse /fle.ʃas/ |
fléchasses /fle.ʃas/ |
fléchât /fle.ʃa/ |
fléchassions /fle.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchassiez /fle.ʃa.sje/ |
fléchassent /fle.ʃas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | flèche /flɛʃ/ |
— | fléchons /fle.ʃɔ̃/ |
fléchez /fle.ʃe/ |
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