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zébrer
zébrer
French
Verb
zébrer
- to stripe, to stripe like a zebra
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 zébrer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written zèbrer-, 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 zébrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | zébrer | avoir zébré | |||||
| gerund | en zébrant | en ayant zébré | |||||
| present participle | zébrant /ze.bʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | zébré /ze.bʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | zèbre /zɛbʁ/ |
zèbres /zɛbʁ/ |
zèbre /zɛbʁ/ |
zébrons /ze.bʁɔ̃/ |
zébrez /ze.bʁe/ |
zèbrent /zɛbʁ/ |
| imperfect | zébrais /ze.bʁɛ/ |
zébrais /ze.bʁɛ/ |
zébrait /ze.bʁɛ/ |
zébrions /ze.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
zébriez /ze.bʁi.je/ |
zébraient /ze.bʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | zébrai /ze.bʁe/ |
zébras /ze.bʁa/ |
zébra /ze.bʁa/ |
zébrâmes /ze.bʁam/ |
zébrâtes /ze.bʁat/ |
zébrèrent /ze.bʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | zèbrerai or zébrerai /zɛ.bʁə.ʁe/ |
zèbreras or zébreras /zɛ.bʁə.ʁa/ |
zèbrera or zébrera /zɛ.bʁə.ʁa/ |
zèbrerons or zébrerons /zɛ.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
zèbrerez or zébrerez /zɛ.bʁə.ʁe/ |
zèbreront or zébreront /zɛ.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | zèbrerais or zébrerais /zɛ.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
zèbrerais or zébrerais /zɛ.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
zèbrerait or zébrerait /zɛ.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
zèbrerions or zébrerions /zɛ.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zèbreriez or zébreriez /zɛ.bʁə.ʁje/ |
zèbreraient or zébreraient /zɛ.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | zèbre /zɛbʁ/ |
zèbres /zɛbʁ/ |
zèbre /zɛbʁ/ |
zébrions /ze.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
zébriez /ze.bʁi.je/ |
zèbrent /zɛbʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
zébrasse /ze.bʁas/ |
zébrasses /ze.bʁas/ |
zébrât /ze.bʁa/ |
zébrassions /ze.bʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
zébrassiez /ze.bʁa.sje/ |
zébrassent /ze.bʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | zèbre /zɛbʁ/ |
— | zébrons /ze.bʁɔ̃/ |
zébrez /ze.bʁe/ |
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