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materner
materner
French
Verb
materner
- (transitive) to mother, mollycoddle
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of materner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | materner | avoir materné | |||||
| gerund | en maternant | en ayant materné | |||||
| present participle |  maternant /ma.tɛʁ.nɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  materné /ma.tɛʁ.ne/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  materne /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
 maternes /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
 materne /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
 maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/  | 
 maternez /ma.tɛʁ.ne/  | 
 maternent /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
| imperfect |  maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/  | 
 maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/  | 
 maternait /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/  | 
 maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/  | 
 materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/  | 
 maternaient /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  maternai /ma.tɛʁ.ne/  | 
maternas /ma.tɛʁ.na/  | 
materna /ma.tɛʁ.na/  | 
maternâmes /ma.tɛʁ.nam/  | 
maternâtes /ma.tɛʁ.nat/  | 
maternèrent /ma.tɛʁ.nɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  maternerai /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/  | 
 materneras /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/  | 
 maternera /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/  | 
 maternerons /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 maternerez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/  | 
 materneront /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/  | 
 maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/  | 
 maternerait /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/  | 
 maternerions /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 materneriez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁje/  | 
 materneraient /ma.tɛʁ.nə.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 |  materne /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
 maternes /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
 materne /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
 maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/  | 
 materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/  | 
 maternent /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
maternasse /ma.tɛʁ.nas/  | 
maternasses /ma.tɛʁ.nas/  | 
maternât /ma.tɛʁ.na/  | 
maternassions /ma.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃/  | 
maternassiez /ma.tɛʁ.na.sje/  | 
maternassent /ma.tɛʁ.nas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  materne /ma.tɛʁn/  | 
— |  maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/  | 
 maternez /ma.tɛʁ.ne/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||