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effleurer
effleurer
French
Verb
effleurer
- to stroke gently, to touch lightly
- to brush over, to brush past
- (figuratively) to skim over (a subject)
Conjugation
Conjugation of effleurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | effleurer | avoir effleuré | |||||
| gerund | en effleurant | en ayant effleuré | |||||
| present participle | effleurant /e.flœ.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | effleuré /e.flœ.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | effleure /e.flœʁ/ |
effleures /e.flœʁ/ |
effleure /e.flœʁ/ |
effleurons /e.flœ.ʁɔ̃/ |
effleurez /e.flœ.ʁe/ |
effleurent /e.flœʁ/ |
| imperfect | effleurais /e.flœ.ʁɛ/ |
effleurais /e.flœ.ʁɛ/ |
effleurait /e.flœ.ʁɛ/ |
effleurions /e.flœ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
effleuriez /e.flœ.ʁje/ |
effleuraient /e.flœ.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | effleurai /e.flœ.ʁe/ |
effleuras /e.flœ.ʁa/ |
effleura /e.flœ.ʁa/ |
effleurâmes /e.flœ.ʁam/ |
effleurâtes /e.flœ.ʁat/ |
effleurèrent /e.flœ.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | effleurerai /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
effleureras /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
effleurera /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
effleurerons /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
effleurerez /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
effleureront /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | effleurerais /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
effleurerais /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
effleurerait /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
effleurerions /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
effleureriez /e.flœ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
effleureraient /e.flœ.ʁə.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 | effleure /e.flœʁ/ |
effleures /e.flœʁ/ |
effleure /e.flœʁ/ |
effleurions /e.flœ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
effleuriez /e.flœ.ʁje/ |
effleurent /e.flœʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
effleurasse /e.flœ.ʁas/ |
effleurasses /e.flœ.ʁas/ |
effleurât /e.flœ.ʁa/ |
effleurassions /e.flœ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
effleurassiez /e.flœ.ʁa.sje/ |
effleurassent /e.flœ.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | effleure /e.flœʁ/ |
— | effleurons /e.flœ.ʁɔ̃/ |
effleurez /e.flœ.ʁe/ |
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