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scier
scier
French
Verb
scier
- to saw, to cut with a saw
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Conjugation
Conjugation of scier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | scier | avoir scié | |||||
| gerund | en sciant | en ayant scié | |||||
| present participle | sciant /sjɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | scié /sje/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | scie /si/ |
scies /si/ |
scie /si/ |
scions /sjɔ̃/ |
sciez /sje/ |
scient /si/ |
| imperfect | sciais /sjɛ/ |
sciais /sjɛ/ |
sciait /sjɛ/ |
sciions /si.jɔ̃/ |
sciiez /si.je/ |
sciaient /sjɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | sciai /sje/ |
scias /sja/ |
scia /sja/ |
sciâmes /sjam/ |
sciâtes /sjat/ |
scièrent /sjɛʁ/ |
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| future | scierai /si.ʁe/ |
scieras /si.ʁa/ |
sciera /si.ʁa/ |
scierons /si.ʁɔ̃/ |
scierez /si.ʁe/ |
scieront /si.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | scierais /si.ʁɛ/ |
scierais /si.ʁɛ/ |
scierait /si.ʁɛ/ |
scierions /si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
scieriez /si.ʁje/ |
scieraient /si.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 | scie /si/ |
scies /si/ |
scie /si/ |
sciions /si.jɔ̃/ |
sciiez /si.je/ |
scient /si/ |
| imperfect1 |
sciasse /sjas/ |
sciasses /sjas/ |
sciât /sja/ |
sciassions /sja.sjɔ̃/ |
sciassiez /sja.sje/ |
sciassent /sjas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | scie /si/ |
— | scions /sjɔ̃/ |
sciez /sje/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||