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fréter
fréter
See also: freter
French
Verb
fréter
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 fréter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written frèter-, 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 fréter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | fréter | avoir frété | |||||
| gerund | en frétant | en ayant frété | |||||
| present participle | frétant /fʁe.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | frété /fʁe.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 | frète /fʁɛt/ |
frètes /fʁɛt/ |
frète /fʁɛt/ |
frétons /fʁe.tɔ̃/ |
frétez /fʁe.te/ |
frètent /fʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | frétais /fʁe.tɛ/ |
frétais /fʁe.tɛ/ |
frétait /fʁe.tɛ/ |
frétions /fʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
frétiez /fʁe.tje/ |
frétaient /fʁe.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | frétai /fʁe.te/ |
frétas /fʁe.ta/ |
fréta /fʁe.ta/ |
frétâmes /fʁe.tam/ |
frétâtes /fʁe.tat/ |
frétèrent /fʁe.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | frèterai or fréterai /fʁɛ.tʁe/ |
frèteras or fréteras /fʁɛ.tʁa/ |
frètera or frétera /fʁɛ.tʁa/ |
frèterons or fréterons /fʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
frèterez or fréterez /fʁɛ.tʁe/ |
frèteront or fréteront /fʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | frèterais or fréterais /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
frèterais or fréterais /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
frèterait or fréterait /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
frèterions or fréterions /fʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
frèteriez or fréteriez /fʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
frèteraient or fréteraient /fʁɛ.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 | frète /fʁɛt/ |
frètes /fʁɛt/ |
frète /fʁɛt/ |
frétions /fʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
frétiez /fʁe.tje/ |
frètent /fʁɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
frétasse /fʁe.tas/ |
frétasses /fʁe.tas/ |
frétât /fʁe.ta/ |
frétassions /fʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
frétassiez /fʁe.ta.sje/ |
frétassent /fʁe.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 | – | |
| — | frète /fʁɛt/ |
— | frétons /fʁe.tɔ̃/ |
frétez /fʁe.te/ |
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