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pontifier
pontifier
French
Verb
pontifier
- to pontificate
Conjugation of pontifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | pontifier | avoir pontifié | |||||
| gerund | en pontifiant | en ayant pontifié | |||||
| present participle | pontifiant /pɔ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | pontifié /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
pontifies /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
pontifions /pɔ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ |
pontifiez /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ |
pontifient /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
| imperfect | pontifiais /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ |
pontifiais /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ |
pontifiait /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ |
pontifiions /pɔ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ |
pontifiiez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.je/ |
pontifiaient /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | pontifiai /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ |
pontifias /pɔ̃.ti.fja/ |
pontifia /pɔ̃.ti.fja/ |
pontifiâmes /pɔ̃.ti.fjam/ |
pontifiâtes /pɔ̃.ti.fjat/ |
pontifièrent /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛʁ/ |
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| future | pontifierai /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/ |
pontifieras /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/ |
pontifiera /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/ |
pontifierons /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
pontifierez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/ |
pontifieront /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | pontifierais /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ |
pontifierais /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ |
pontifierait /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ |
pontifierions /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pontifieriez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁje/ |
pontifieraient /pɔ̃.ti.fi.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 | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
pontifies /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
pontifiions /pɔ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ |
pontifiiez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.je/ |
pontifient /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
| imperfect1 |
pontifiasse /pɔ̃.ti.fjas/ |
pontifiasses /pɔ̃.ti.fjas/ |
pontifiât /pɔ̃.ti.fja/ |
pontifiassions /pɔ̃.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
pontifiassiez /pɔ̃.ti.fja.sje/ |
pontifiassent /pɔ̃.ti.fjas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ |
— | pontifions /pɔ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ |
pontifiez /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||