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tâter
tâter
French
Verb
tâter
- to feel (touch lightly, to sense consistency or temperature)
- to get a feel for
Conjugation
Conjugation of tâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | tâter | avoir tâté | |||||
| gerund | en tâtant | en ayant tâté | |||||
| present participle | tâtant /tɑ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | tâté /tɑ.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 | tâte /tɑt/ |
tâtes /tɑt/ |
tâte /tɑt/ |
tâtons /tɑ.tɔ̃/ |
tâtez /tɑ.te/ |
tâtent /tɑt/ |
| imperfect | tâtais /tɑ.tɛ/ |
tâtais /tɑ.tɛ/ |
tâtait /tɑ.tɛ/ |
tâtions /tɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
tâtiez /tɑ.tje/ |
tâtaient /tɑ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | tâtai /tɑ.te/ |
tâtas /tɑ.ta/ |
tâta /tɑ.ta/ |
tâtâmes /tɑ.tam/ |
tâtâtes /tɑ.tat/ |
tâtèrent /tɑ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | tâterai /tɑ.tʁe/ |
tâteras /tɑ.tʁa/ |
tâtera /tɑ.tʁa/ |
tâterons /tɑ.tʁɔ̃/ |
tâterez /tɑ.tʁe/ |
tâteront /tɑ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | tâterais /tɑ.tʁɛ/ |
tâterais /tɑ.tʁɛ/ |
tâterait /tɑ.tʁɛ/ |
tâterions /tɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tâteriez /tɑ.tə.ʁje/ |
tâteraient /tɑ.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 | tâte /tɑt/ |
tâtes /tɑt/ |
tâte /tɑt/ |
tâtions /tɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
tâtiez /tɑ.tje/ |
tâtent /tɑt/ |
| imperfect1 |
tâtasse /tɑ.tas/ |
tâtasses /tɑ.tas/ |
tâtât /tɑ.ta/ |
tâtassions /tɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tâtassiez /tɑ.ta.sje/ |
tâtassent /tɑ.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 | – | |
| — | tâte /tɑt/ |
— | tâtons /tɑ.tɔ̃/ |
tâtez /tɑ.te/ |
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