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hériter
hériter
See also: heriter
French
Verb
hériter
- to inherit (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of hériter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | hériter | avoir hérité | |||||
| gerund | en héritant | en ayant hérité | |||||
| present participle | héritant /e.ʁi.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | hérité /e.ʁi.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 | hérite /e.ʁit/ |
hérites /e.ʁit/ |
hérite /e.ʁit/ |
héritons /e.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
héritez /e.ʁi.te/ |
héritent /e.ʁit/ |
| imperfect | héritais /e.ʁi.tɛ/ |
héritais /e.ʁi.tɛ/ |
héritait /e.ʁi.tɛ/ |
héritions /e.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
héritiez /e.ʁi.tje/ |
héritaient /e.ʁi.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | héritai /e.ʁi.te/ |
héritas /e.ʁi.ta/ |
hérita /e.ʁi.ta/ |
héritâmes /e.ʁi.tam/ |
héritâtes /e.ʁi.tat/ |
héritèrent /e.ʁi.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | hériterai /e.ʁi.tʁe/ |
hériteras /e.ʁi.tʁa/ |
héritera /e.ʁi.tʁa/ |
hériterons /e.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
hériterez /e.ʁi.tʁe/ |
hériteront /e.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | hériterais /e.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
hériterais /e.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
hériterait /e.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
hériterions /e.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
hériteriez /e.ʁi.tə.ʁje/ |
hériteraient /e.ʁi.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 | hérite /e.ʁit/ |
hérites /e.ʁit/ |
hérite /e.ʁit/ |
héritions /e.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
héritiez /e.ʁi.tje/ |
héritent /e.ʁit/ |
| imperfect1 |
héritasse /e.ʁi.tas/ |
héritasses /e.ʁi.tas/ |
héritât /e.ʁi.ta/ |
héritassions /e.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
héritassiez /e.ʁi.ta.sje/ |
héritassent /e.ʁi.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 | – | |
| — | hérite /e.ʁit/ |
— | héritons /e.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
héritez /e.ʁi.te/ |
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