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repérer
repérer
French
Verb
repérer
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 repérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written repèrer-, 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 repérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | repérer | avoir repéré | |||||
| gerund | en repérant | en ayant repéré | |||||
| present participle | repérant /ʁə.pe.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | repéré /ʁə.pe.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | repère /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
repères /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
repère /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
repérons /ʁə.pe.ʁɔ̃/ |
repérez /ʁə.pe.ʁe/ |
repèrent /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | repérais /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/ |
repérais /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/ |
repérait /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/ |
repérions /ʁə.pe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
repériez /ʁə.pe.ʁje/ |
repéraient /ʁə.pe.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | repérai /ʁə.pe.ʁe/ |
repéras /ʁə.pe.ʁa/ |
repéra /ʁə.pe.ʁa/ |
repérâmes /ʁə.pe.ʁam/ |
repérâtes /ʁə.pe.ʁat/ |
repérèrent /ʁə.pe.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | repèrerai or repérerai /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
repèreras or repéreras /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
repèrera or repérera /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
repèrerons or repérerons /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
repèrerez or repérerez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
repèreront or repéreront /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | repèrerais or repérerais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
repèrerais or repérerais /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
repèrerait or repérerait /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
repèrerions or repérerions /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
repèreriez or repéreriez /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
repèreraient or repéreraient /ʁə.pɛ.ʁə.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 | repère /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
repères /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
repère /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
repérions /ʁə.pe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
repériez /ʁə.pe.ʁje/ |
repèrent /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
repérasse /ʁə.pe.ʁas/ |
repérasses /ʁə.pe.ʁas/ |
repérât /ʁə.pe.ʁa/ |
repérassions /ʁə.pe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
repérassiez /ʁə.pe.ʁa.sje/ |
repérassent /ʁə.pe.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | repère /ʁə.pɛʁ/ |
— | repérons /ʁə.pe.ʁɔ̃/ |
repérez /ʁə.pe.ʁe/ |
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