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quinter
quinter
French
Adverb
quinter
- A fifth time.
Verb
quinter
- (archaic, agriculture) to plough the field five times
- (rare) to have a coughing fit
Conjugation
Conjugation of quinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | quinter | avoir quinté | |||||
| gerund | en quintant | en ayant quinté | |||||
| present participle | quintant /kɛ̃.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | quinté /kɛ̃.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | quinte /kɛ̃t/ |
quintes /kɛ̃t/ |
quinte /kɛ̃t/ |
quintons /kɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
quintez /kɛ̃.te/ |
quintent /kɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | quintais /kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
quintais /kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
quintait /kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
quintions /kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
quintiez /kɛ̃.tje/ |
quintaient /kɛ̃.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | quintai /kɛ̃.te/ |
quintas /kɛ̃.ta/ |
quinta /kɛ̃.ta/ |
quintâmes /kɛ̃.tam/ |
quintâtes /kɛ̃.tat/ |
quintèrent /kɛ̃.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | quinterai /kɛ̃.tʁe/ |
quinteras /kɛ̃.tʁa/ |
quintera /kɛ̃.tʁa/ |
quinterons /kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
quinterez /kɛ̃.tʁe/ |
quinteront /kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | quinterais /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
quinterais /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
quinterait /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
quinterions /kɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
quinteriez /kɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
quinteraient /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | quinte /kɛ̃t/ |
quintes /kɛ̃t/ |
quinte /kɛ̃t/ |
quintions /kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
quintiez /kɛ̃.tje/ |
quintent /kɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect1 |
quintasse /kɛ̃.tas/ |
quintasses /kɛ̃.tas/ |
quintât /kɛ̃.ta/ |
quintassions /kɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
quintassiez /kɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
quintassent /kɛ̃.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | quinte /kɛ̃t/ |
— | quintons /kɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
quintez /kɛ̃.te/ |
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