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germer
germer
French
Verb
germer
- to germinate
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of germer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | germer | avoir germé | |||||
| gerund | en germant | en ayant germé | |||||
| present participle |  germant /ʒɛʁ.mɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  germé /ʒɛʁ.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 |  germe /ʒɛʁm/  | 
 germes /ʒɛʁm/  | 
 germe /ʒɛʁm/  | 
 germons /ʒɛʁ.mɔ̃/  | 
 germez /ʒɛʁ.me/  | 
 germent /ʒɛʁm/  | 
| imperfect |  germais /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/  | 
 germais /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/  | 
 germait /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/  | 
 germions /ʒɛʁ.mjɔ̃/  | 
 germiez /ʒɛʁ.mje/  | 
 germaient /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  germai /ʒɛʁ.me/  | 
germas /ʒɛʁ.ma/  | 
germa /ʒɛʁ.ma/  | 
germâmes /ʒɛʁ.mam/  | 
germâtes /ʒɛʁ.mat/  | 
germèrent /ʒɛʁ.mɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  germerai /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁe/  | 
 germeras /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁa/  | 
 germera /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁa/  | 
 germerons /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 germerez /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁe/  | 
 germeront /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  germerais /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/  | 
 germerais /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/  | 
 germerait /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/  | 
 germerions /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 germeriez /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁje/  | 
 germeraient /ʒɛʁ.mə.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 |  germe /ʒɛʁm/  | 
 germes /ʒɛʁm/  | 
 germe /ʒɛʁm/  | 
 germions /ʒɛʁ.mjɔ̃/  | 
 germiez /ʒɛʁ.mje/  | 
 germent /ʒɛʁm/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
germasse /ʒɛʁ.mas/  | 
germasses /ʒɛʁ.mas/  | 
germât /ʒɛʁ.ma/  | 
germassions /ʒɛʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/  | 
germassiez /ʒɛʁ.ma.sje/  | 
germassent /ʒɛʁ.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 | – | |
| — |  germe /ʒɛʁm/  | 
— |  germons /ʒɛʁ.mɔ̃/  | 
 germez /ʒɛʁ.me/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||