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caréner
caréner
French
Verb
caréner
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 caréner-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written carèner-, 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 caréner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | caréner | avoir caréné | |||||
| gerund | en carénant | en ayant caréné | |||||
| present participle | carénant /ka.ʁe.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | caréné /ka.ʁe.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | carène /ka.ʁɛn/ |
carènes /ka.ʁɛn/ |
carène /ka.ʁɛn/ |
carénons /ka.ʁe.nɔ̃/ |
carénez /ka.ʁe.ne/ |
carènent /ka.ʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | carénais /ka.ʁe.nɛ/ |
carénais /ka.ʁe.nɛ/ |
carénait /ka.ʁe.nɛ/ |
carénions /ka.ʁe.njɔ̃/ |
caréniez /ka.ʁe.nje/ |
carénaient /ka.ʁe.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | carénai /ka.ʁe.ne/ |
carénas /ka.ʁe.na/ |
caréna /ka.ʁe.na/ |
carénâmes /ka.ʁe.nam/ |
carénâtes /ka.ʁe.nat/ |
carénèrent /ka.ʁe.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | carènerai or carénerai /ka.ʁɛn.ʁe/ |
carèneras or caréneras /ka.ʁɛn.ʁa/ |
carènera or carénera /ka.ʁɛn.ʁa/ |
carènerons or carénerons /ka.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
carènerez or carénerez /ka.ʁɛn.ʁe/ |
carèneront or caréneront /ka.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | carènerais or carénerais /ka.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
carènerais or carénerais /ka.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
carènerait or carénerait /ka.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/ |
carènerions or carénerions /ka.ʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
carèneriez or caréneriez /ka.ʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ |
carèneraient or caréneraient /ka.ʁɛn.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 | carène /ka.ʁɛn/ |
carènes /ka.ʁɛn/ |
carène /ka.ʁɛn/ |
carénions /ka.ʁe.njɔ̃/ |
caréniez /ka.ʁe.nje/ |
carènent /ka.ʁɛn/ |
| imperfect1 |
carénasse /ka.ʁe.nas/ |
carénasses /ka.ʁe.nas/ |
carénât /ka.ʁe.na/ |
carénassions /ka.ʁe.na.sjɔ̃/ |
carénassiez /ka.ʁe.na.sje/ |
carénassent /ka.ʁe.nas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | carène /ka.ʁɛn/ |
— | carénons /ka.ʁe.nɔ̃/ |
carénez /ka.ʁe.ne/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||