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allaiter
allaiter
French
Verb
allaiter
- to breastfeed
 - (of an animal) to suckle
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of allaiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | allaiter | avoir allaité | |||||
| gerund | en allaitant | en ayant allaité | |||||
| present participle |  allaitant /a.lɛ.tɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  allaité /a.lɛ.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 |  allaite /a.lɛt/  | 
 allaites /a.lɛt/  | 
 allaite /a.lɛt/  | 
 allaitons /a.lɛ.tɔ̃/  | 
 allaitez /a.lɛ.te/  | 
 allaitent /a.lɛt/  | 
| imperfect |  allaitais /a.lɛ.tɛ/  | 
 allaitais /a.lɛ.tɛ/  | 
 allaitait /a.lɛ.tɛ/  | 
 allaitions /a.lɛ.tjɔ̃/  | 
 allaitiez /a.lɛ.tje/  | 
 allaitaient /a.lɛ.tɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  allaitai /a.lɛ.te/  | 
allaitas /a.lɛ.ta/  | 
allaita /a.lɛ.ta/  | 
allaitâmes /a.lɛ.tam/  | 
allaitâtes /a.lɛ.tat/  | 
allaitèrent /a.lɛ.tɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  allaiterai /a.lɛ.tʁe/  | 
 allaiteras /a.lɛ.tʁa/  | 
 allaitera /a.lɛ.tʁa/  | 
 allaiterons /a.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/  | 
 allaiterez /a.lɛ.tʁe/  | 
 allaiteront /a.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  allaiterais /a.lɛ.tʁɛ/  | 
 allaiterais /a.lɛ.tʁɛ/  | 
 allaiterait /a.lɛ.tʁɛ/  | 
 allaiterions /a.lɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 allaiteriez /a.lɛ.tə.ʁje/  | 
 allaiteraient /a.lɛ.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 |  allaite /a.lɛt/  | 
 allaites /a.lɛt/  | 
 allaite /a.lɛt/  | 
 allaitions /a.lɛ.tjɔ̃/  | 
 allaitiez /a.lɛ.tje/  | 
 allaitent /a.lɛt/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
allaitasse /a.lɛ.tas/  | 
allaitasses /a.lɛ.tas/  | 
allaitât /a.lɛ.ta/  | 
allaitassions /a.lɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/  | 
allaitassiez /a.lɛ.ta.sje/  | 
allaitassent /a.lɛ.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 | – | |
| — |  allaite /a.lɛt/  | 
— |  allaitons /a.lɛ.tɔ̃/  | 
 allaitez /a.lɛ.te/  | 
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