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perpétrer
perpétrer
See also: perpetrer
French
Verb
perpétrer
- (transitive) to commit, perpetrate (a crime)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written perpétrer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written perpètrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of perpétrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | perpétrer | avoir perpétré | |||||
| gerund | en perpétrant | en ayant perpétré | |||||
| present participle | perpétrant /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | perpétré /pɛʁ.pe.tʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | perpètre /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
perpètres /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
perpètre /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
perpétrons /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɔ̃/ |
perpétrez /pɛʁ.pe.tʁe/ |
perpètrent /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
| imperfect | perpétrais /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɛ/ |
perpétrais /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɛ/ |
perpétrait /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɛ/ |
perpétrions /pɛʁ.pe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
perpétriez /pɛʁ.pe.tʁi.je/ |
perpétraient /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | perpétrai /pɛʁ.pe.tʁe/ |
perpétras /pɛʁ.pe.tʁa/ |
perpétra /pɛʁ.pe.tʁa/ |
perpétrâmes /pɛʁ.pe.tʁam/ |
perpétrâtes /pɛʁ.pe.tʁat/ |
perpétrèrent /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | perpètrerai or perpétrerai /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁe/ |
perpètreras or perpétreras /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁa/ |
perpètrera or perpétrera /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁa/ |
perpètrerons or perpétrerons /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
perpètrerez or perpétrerez /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁe/ |
perpètreront or perpétreront /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | perpètrerais or perpétrerais /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
perpètrerais or perpétrerais /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
perpètrerait or perpétrerait /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
perpètrerions or perpétrerions /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
perpètreriez or perpétreriez /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.ʁje/ |
perpètreraient or perpétreraient /pɛʁ.pɛ.tʁə.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 | perpètre /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
perpètres /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
perpètre /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
perpétrions /pɛʁ.pe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
perpétriez /pɛʁ.pe.tʁi.je/ |
perpètrent /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
perpétrasse /pɛʁ.pe.tʁas/ |
perpétrasses /pɛʁ.pe.tʁas/ |
perpétrât /pɛʁ.pe.tʁa/ |
perpétrassions /pɛʁ.pe.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
perpétrassiez /pɛʁ.pe.tʁa.sje/ |
perpétrassent /pɛʁ.pe.tʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | perpètre /pɛʁ.pɛtʁ/ |
— | perpétrons /pɛʁ.pe.tʁɔ̃/ |
perpétrez /pɛʁ.pe.tʁe/ |
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