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haleter
haleter
French
Verb
haleter
- to pant (To breathe heavily)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il halète rather than *il halete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of haleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | haleter | avoir haleté | |||||
| gerund | en haletant | en ayant haleté | |||||
| present participle | haletant /al.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | haleté /al.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 | halète /a.lɛt/ |
halètes /a.lɛt/ |
halète /a.lɛt/ |
haletons /al.tɔ̃/ |
haletez /al.te/ |
halètent /a.lɛt/ |
| imperfect | haletais /al.tɛ/ |
haletais /al.tɛ/ |
haletait /al.tɛ/ |
haletions /a.lə.tjɔ̃/ |
haletiez /a.lə.tje/ |
haletaient /al.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | haletai /al.te/ |
haletas /al.ta/ |
haleta /al.ta/ |
haletâmes /al.tam/ |
haletâtes /al.tat/ |
haletèrent /al.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | halèterai /a.lɛ.tʁe/ |
halèteras /a.lɛ.tʁa/ |
halètera /a.lɛ.tʁa/ |
halèterons /a.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
halèterez /a.lɛ.tʁe/ |
halèteront /a.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | halèterais /a.lɛ.tʁɛ/ |
halèterais /a.lɛ.tʁɛ/ |
halèterait /a.lɛ.tʁɛ/ |
halèterions /a.lɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
halèteriez /a.lɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
halèteraient /a.lɛ.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 | halète /a.lɛt/ |
halètes /a.lɛt/ |
halète /a.lɛt/ |
haletions /a.lə.tjɔ̃/ |
haletiez /a.lə.tje/ |
halètent /a.lɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
haletasse /al.tas/ |
haletasses /al.tas/ |
haletât /al.ta/ |
haletassions /al.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
haletassiez /al.ta.sje/ |
haletassent /al.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 | – | |
| — | halète /a.lɛt/ |
— | haletons /al.tɔ̃/ |
haletez /al.te/ |
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