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tancer
tancer
See also: tȧncer
French
Verb
tancer
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of tancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | tancer | avoir tancé | |||||
| gerund | en tançant | en ayant tancé | |||||
| present participle | tançant /tɑ̃.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | tancé /tɑ̃.se/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | tance /tɑ̃s/ |
tances /tɑ̃s/ |
tance /tɑ̃s/ |
tançons /tɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
tancez /tɑ̃.se/ |
tancent /tɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect | tançais /tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
tançais /tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
tançait /tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
tancions /tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
tanciez /tɑ̃.sje/ |
tançaient /tɑ̃.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | tançai /tɑ̃.se/ |
tanças /tɑ̃.sa/ |
tança /tɑ̃.sa/ |
tançâmes /tɑ̃.sam/ |
tançâtes /tɑ̃.sat/ |
tancèrent /tɑ̃.sɛʁ/ |
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| future | tancerai /tɑ̃.sʁe/ |
tanceras /tɑ̃.sʁa/ |
tancera /tɑ̃.sʁa/ |
tancerons /tɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ |
tancerez /tɑ̃.sʁe/ |
tanceront /tɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | tancerais /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
tancerais /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
tancerait /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
tancerions /tɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tanceriez /tɑ̃.sə.ʁje/ |
tanceraient /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
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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 | tance /tɑ̃s/ |
tances /tɑ̃s/ |
tance /tɑ̃s/ |
tancions /tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
tanciez /tɑ̃.sje/ |
tancent /tɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect1 |
tançasse /tɑ̃.sas/ |
tançasses /tɑ̃.sas/ |
tançât /tɑ̃.sa/ |
tançassions /tɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
tançassiez /tɑ̃.sa.sje/ |
tançassent /tɑ̃.sas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | tance /tɑ̃s/ |
— | tançons /tɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
tancez /tɑ̃.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||