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comparaître
comparaître
See also: comparaitre
French
Alternative forms
Verb
comparaître
- to appear before a judge or government official.
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the ‘i’ is given a circumflex before a ‘t’.
Conjugation of comparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | comparaître | avoir comparu | |||||
| gerund | en comparaissant | en ayant comparu | |||||
| present participle | comparaissant /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | comparu /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | comparais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/ |
comparais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/ |
comparaît /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/ |
comparaissons /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
comparaissez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
comparaissent /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect | comparaissais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
comparaissais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
comparaissait /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
comparaissions /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
comparaissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
comparaissaient /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | comparus /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/ |
comparus /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/ |
comparut /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/ |
comparûmes /kɔ̃.pa.ʁym/ |
comparûtes /kɔ̃.pa.ʁyt/ |
comparurent /kɔ̃.pa.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | comparaîtrai /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ |
comparaîtras /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ |
comparaîtra /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ |
comparaîtrons /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
comparaîtrez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ |
comparaîtront /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | comparaîtrais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
comparaîtrais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
comparaîtrait /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
comparaîtrions /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
comparaîtriez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ |
comparaîtraient /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | comparaisse /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/ |
comparaisses /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/ |
comparaisse /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/ |
comparaissions /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
comparaissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
comparaissent /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect1 |
comparusse /kɔ̃.pa.ʁys/ |
comparusses /kɔ̃.pa.ʁys/ |
comparût /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/ |
comparussions /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
comparussiez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁy.sje/ |
comparussent /kɔ̃.pa.ʁys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | comparais /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/ |
— | comparaissons /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
comparaissez /kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
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