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parrainer
parrainer
French
Verb
parrainer
Conjugation
Conjugation of parrainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | parrainer | avoir parrainé | |||||
| gerund | en parrainant | en ayant parrainé | |||||
| present participle | parrainant /pa.ʁɛ.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | parrainé /pa.ʁɛ.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 | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ |
parraines /pa.ʁɛn/ |
parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ |
parrainons /pa.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ |
parrainez /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ |
parrainent /pa.ʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | parrainais /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ |
parrainais /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ |
parrainait /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ |
parrainions /pa.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ |
parrainiez /pa.ʁɛ.nje/ |
parrainaient /pa.ʁɛ.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | parrainai /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ |
parrainas /pa.ʁɛ.na/ |
parraina /pa.ʁɛ.na/ |
parrainâmes /pa.ʁɛ.nam/ |
parrainâtes /pa.ʁɛ.nat/ |
parrainèrent /pa.ʁɛ.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | parrainerai /pa.ʁɛn.ʁe/ |
parraineras /pa.ʁɛn.ʁa/ |
parrainera /pa.ʁɛn.ʁa/ |
parrainerons /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
parrainerez /pa.ʁɛn.ʁe/ |
parraineront /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | parrainerais /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
parrainerais /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
parrainerait /pa.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
parrainerions /pa.ʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parraineriez /pa.ʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ |
parraineraient /pa.ʁɛn.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 | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ |
parraines /pa.ʁɛn/ |
parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ |
parrainions /pa.ʁɛ.njɔ̃/ |
parrainiez /pa.ʁɛ.nje/ |
parrainent /pa.ʁɛn/ |
| imperfect1 |
parrainasse /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ |
parrainasses /pa.ʁɛ.nas/ |
parrainât /pa.ʁɛ.na/ |
parrainassions /pa.ʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
parrainassiez /pa.ʁɛ.na.sje/ |
parrainassent /pa.ʁɛ.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 | – | |
| — | parraine /pa.ʁɛn/ |
— | parrainons /pa.ʁɛ.nɔ̃/ |
parrainez /pa.ʁɛ.ne/ |
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