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soulever
soulever
French
Verb
soulever
- to raise, to lift up, to pick up
- to stir up (emotions), to rouse (interest)
- (reflexive) to revolt, to rise up (against)
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 soulève rather than *il souleve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of soulever (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | soulever | avoir soulevé | |||||
| gerund | en soulevant | en ayant soulevé | |||||
| present participle | soulevant /sul.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | soulevé /sul.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 | soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulèves /su.lɛv/ |
soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulevons /sul.vɔ̃/ |
soulevez /sul.ve/ |
soulèvent /su.lɛv/ |
| imperfect | soulevais /sul.vɛ/ |
soulevais /sul.vɛ/ |
soulevait /sul.vɛ/ |
soulevions /su.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
souleviez /su.lə.vje/ |
soulevaient /sul.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | soulevai /sul.ve/ |
soulevas /sul.va/ |
souleva /sul.va/ |
soulevâmes /sul.vam/ |
soulevâtes /sul.vat/ |
soulevèrent /sul.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | soulèverai /su.lɛ.vʁe/ |
soulèveras /su.lɛ.vʁa/ |
soulèvera /su.lɛ.vʁa/ |
soulèverons /su.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
soulèverez /su.lɛ.vʁe/ |
soulèveront /su.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | soulèverais /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
soulèverais /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
soulèverait /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ |
soulèverions /su.lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
soulèveriez /su.lɛ.və.ʁje/ |
soulèveraient /su.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 | soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulèves /su.lɛv/ |
soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulevions /su.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
souleviez /su.lə.vje/ |
soulèvent /su.lɛv/ |
| imperfect1 |
soulevasse /sul.vas/ |
soulevasses /sul.vas/ |
soulevât /sul.va/ |
soulevassions /sul.va.sjɔ̃/ |
soulevassiez /sul.va.sje/ |
soulevassent /sul.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 | – | |
| — | soulève /su.lɛv/ |
— | soulevons /sul.vɔ̃/ |
soulevez /sul.ve/ |
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