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pleuvoir
pleuvoir
French
Verb
pleuvoir (impersonal)
- to rain
- Il pleuvrait ce soir.
- It might rain tonight.
- Il pleuvrait ce soir.
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, only conjugated in the third-person. The third-person plural forms are only used figuratively.
Conjugation of pleuvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | pleuvoir | avoir plu | |||||
| gerund | en pleuvant | en ayant plu | |||||
| present participle | pleuvant /plœ.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | plu /ply/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | pleut /plø/ |
— | — | pleuvent /plœv/ |
| imperfect | — | — | pleuvait /plœ.vɛ/ |
— | — | pleuvaient /plœ.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | — | — |
plut /ply/ |
— | — |
plurent /plyʁ/ |
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| future | — | — | pleuvra /plœ.vʁa/ |
— | — | pleuvront /plœ.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | — | — | pleuvrait /plœ.vʁɛ/ |
— | — | pleuvraient /plœ.vʁɛ/ |
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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 | — | — | pleuve /plœv/ |
— | — | pleuvent /plœv/ |
| imperfect1 | — | — |
plût /ply/ |
— | — |
plussent /plys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||