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éclore
éclore
French
Verb
éclore
- to hatch (for an egg)
- to bloom (for a flower)
- (figuratively) To hatch (to start, to begin existence)
Conjugation
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
Conjugation of éclore (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | éclore | avoir éclos | |||||
| gerund | en éclosant | en ayant éclos | |||||
| present participle | éclosant /e.klo.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | éclos /e.klo/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | éclos /e.klo/ |
éclos /e.klo/ |
éclôt /e.klo/ |
éclosons /e.klo.zɔ̃/ |
éclosez /e.klo.ze/ |
éclosent /e.kloz/ |
| imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| past historic1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | éclorai /e.klɔ.ʁe/ |
écloras /e.klɔ.ʁa/ |
éclora /e.klɔ.ʁa/ |
éclorons /e.klɔ.ʁɔ̃/ |
éclorez /e.klɔ.ʁe/ |
écloront /e.klɔ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | éclorais /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/ |
éclorais /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/ |
éclorait /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/ |
éclorions /e.klɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écloriez /e.klɔ.ʁje/ |
écloraient /e.klɔ.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 | éclose /e.kloz/ |
écloses /e.kloz/ |
éclose /e.kloz/ |
éclosions /e.klo.zjɔ̃/ |
éclosiez /e.klo.zje/ |
éclosent /e.kloz/ |
| imperfect1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | éclos /e.klo/ |
— | éclosons /e.klo.zɔ̃/ |
éclosez /e.klo.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||