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avertir
avertir
French
Verb
avertir
Related terms
- averteur
- avertissement
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of avertir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | avertir | avoir averti | |||||
| gerund | en avertissant | en ayant averti | |||||
| present participle | avertissant /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | averti /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | avertis /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertis /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertit /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertissons /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
avertissez /a.vɛʁ.ti.se/ |
avertissent /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect | avertissais /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
avertissais /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
avertissait /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
avertissions /a.vɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
avertissiez /a.vɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
avertissaient /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | avertis /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertis /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertit /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertîmes /a.vɛʁ.tim/ |
avertîtes /a.vɛʁ.tit/ |
avertirent /a.vɛʁ.tiʁ/ |
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| future | avertirai /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
avertiras /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
avertira /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
avertirons /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
avertirez /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
avertiront /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | avertirais /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
avertirais /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
avertirait /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
avertirions /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
avertiriez /a.vɛʁ.ti.ʁje/ |
avertiraient /a.vɛʁ.ti.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 | avertisse /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
avertisses /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
avertisse /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
avertissions /a.vɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
avertissiez /a.vɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
avertissent /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
avertisse /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
avertisses /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
avertît /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
avertissions /a.vɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
avertissiez /a.vɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
avertissent /a.vɛʁ.tis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | avertis /a.vɛʁ.ti/ |
— | avertissons /a.vɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
avertissez /a.vɛʁ.ti.se/ |
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