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secréter
secréter
French
Verb
secréter
- To felt (treat with mercury to make felt)
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 secréter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written secrèter-, 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 secréter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | secréter | avoir secrété | |||||
| gerund | en secrétant | en ayant secrété | |||||
| present participle | secrétant /sə.kʁe.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | secrété /sə.kʁe.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 | secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrètes /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrétons /sə.kʁe.tɔ̃/ |
secrétez /sə.kʁe.te/ |
secrètent /sə.kʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | secrétais /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
secrétais /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
secrétait /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
secrétions /sə.kʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
secrétiez /sə.kʁe.tje/ |
secrétaient /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | secrétai /sə.kʁe.te/ |
secrétas /sə.kʁe.ta/ |
secréta /sə.kʁe.ta/ |
secrétâmes /sə.kʁe.tam/ |
secrétâtes /sə.kʁe.tat/ |
secrétèrent /sə.kʁe.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | secrèterai or secréterai /sə.kʁɛ.tʁe/ |
secrèteras or secréteras /sə.kʁɛ.tʁa/ |
secrètera or secrétera /sə.kʁɛ.tʁa/ |
secrèterons or secréterons /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
secrèterez or secréterez /sə.kʁɛ.tʁe/ |
secrèteront or secréteront /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | secrèterais or secréterais /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
secrèterais or secréterais /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
secrèterait or secréterait /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
secrèterions or secréterions /sə.kʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secrèteriez or secréteriez /sə.kʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
secrèteraient or secréteraient /sə.kʁɛ.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 | secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrètes /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrétions /sə.kʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
secrétiez /sə.kʁe.tje/ |
secrètent /sə.kʁɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
secrétasse /sə.kʁe.tas/ |
secrétasses /sə.kʁe.tas/ |
secrétât /sə.kʁe.ta/ |
secrétassions /sə.kʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
secrétassiez /sə.kʁe.ta.sje/ |
secrétassent /sə.kʁe.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 | – | |
| — | secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
— | secrétons /sə.kʁe.tɔ̃/ |
secrétez /sə.kʁe.te/ |
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