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tatouer
tatouer
French
Verb
tatouer
- (transitive) to tattoo
Conjugation
  Conjugation of tatouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tatouer | avoir tatoué | |||||
| gerund | en tatouant | en ayant tatoué | |||||
| present participle | tatouant /ta.twɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | tatoué /ta.twe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | tatoue /ta.tu/ | tatoues /ta.tu/ | tatoue /ta.tu/ | tatouons /ta.twɔ̃/ | tatouez /ta.twe/ | tatouent /ta.tu/ | 
| imperfect | tatouais /ta.twɛ/ | tatouais /ta.twɛ/ | tatouait /ta.twɛ/ | tatouions /ta.tu.jɔ̃/ | tatouiez /ta.tu.je/ | tatouaient /ta.twɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | tatouai /ta.twe/ | tatouas /ta.twa/ | tatoua /ta.twa/ | tatouâmes /ta.twam/ | tatouâtes /ta.twat/ | tatouèrent /ta.twɛʁ/ | |
| future | tatouerai /ta.tu.ʁe/ | tatoueras /ta.tu.ʁa/ | tatouera /ta.tu.ʁa/ | tatouerons /ta.tu.ʁɔ̃/ | tatouerez /ta.tu.ʁe/ | tatoueront /ta.tu.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tatouerais /ta.tu.ʁɛ/ | tatouerais /ta.tu.ʁɛ/ | tatouerait /ta.tu.ʁɛ/ | tatouerions /ta.tu.ʁjɔ̃/ | tatoueriez /ta.tu.ʁje/ | tatoueraient /ta.tu.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | tatoue /ta.tu/ | tatoues /ta.tu/ | tatoue /ta.tu/ | tatouions /ta.tu.jɔ̃/ | tatouiez /ta.tu.je/ | tatouent /ta.tu/ | 
| imperfect1 | tatouasse /ta.twas/ | tatouasses /ta.twas/ | tatouât /ta.twa/ | tatouassions /ta.twa.sjɔ̃/ | tatouassiez /ta.twa.sje/ | tatouassent /ta.twas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | tatoue /ta.tu/ | — | tatouons /ta.twɔ̃/ | tatouez /ta.twe/ | — | ||
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