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s'élever
élever
See also: elever
French
Verb
élever
- to raise
- to bring up
- to elevate, to enhance
- (reflexive, of a voice) to be heard, to rise
- (reflexive) to rise, to soar
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il élève rather than *il éleve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of élever (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | élever | avoir élevé | |||||
| gerund | en élevant | en ayant élevé | |||||
| present participle | élevant /el.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | élevé /el.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | élève /e.lɛv/ |
élèves /e.lɛv/ |
élève /e.lɛv/ |
élevons /el.vɔ̃/ |
élevez /el.ve/ |
élèvent /e.lɛv/ |
| imperfect | élevais /el.vɛ/ |
élevais /el.vɛ/ |
élevait /el.vɛ/ |
élevions /e.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
éleviez /e.lə.vje/ |
élevaient /el.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | élevai /el.ve/ |
élevas /el.va/ |
éleva /el.va/ |
élevâmes /el.vam/ |
élevâtes /el.vat/ |
élevèrent /el.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | élèverai /e.lɛ.vʁe/ |
élèveras /e.lɛ.vʁa/ |
élèvera /e.lɛ.vʁa/ |
élèverons /e.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
élèverez /e.lɛ.vʁe/ |
élèveront /e.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | élèverais /e.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
élèverais /e.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
élèverait /e.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
élèverions /e.lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
élèveriez /e.lɛ.və.ʁje/ |
élèveraient /e.lɛ.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 | élève /e.lɛv/ |
élèves /e.lɛv/ |
élève /e.lɛv/ |
élevions /e.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
éleviez /e.lə.vje/ |
élèvent /e.lɛv/ |
| imperfect1 |
élevasse /el.vas/ |
élevasses /el.vas/ |
élevât /el.va/ |
élevassions /el.va.sjɔ̃/ |
élevassiez /el.va.sje/ |
élevassent /el.vas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | élève /e.lɛv/ |
— | élevons /el.vɔ̃/ |
élevez /el.ve/ |
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