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encadrer
encadrer
French
Verb
encadrer
-  (transitive) to frame
-  encadrer votre portrait
- frame your picture
 
 
 -  encadrer votre portrait
 - (transitive) to surround, outline
 - (transitive) to supervise, overlook
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of encadrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | encadrer | avoir encadré | |||||
| gerund | en encadrant | en ayant encadré | |||||
| present participle |  encadrant /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  encadré /ɑ̃.ka.dʁe/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  encadre /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
 encadres /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
 encadre /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
 encadrons /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɔ̃/  | 
 encadrez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁe/  | 
 encadrent /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
| imperfect |  encadrais /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ/  | 
 encadrais /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ/  | 
 encadrait /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ/  | 
 encadrions /ɑ̃.ka.dʁi.jɔ̃/  | 
 encadriez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁi.je/  | 
 encadraient /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  encadrai /ɑ̃.ka.dʁe/  | 
encadras /ɑ̃.ka.dʁa/  | 
encadra /ɑ̃.ka.dʁa/  | 
encadrâmes /ɑ̃.ka.dʁam/  | 
encadrâtes /ɑ̃.ka.dʁat/  | 
encadrèrent /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  encadrerai /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁe/  | 
 encadreras /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁa/  | 
 encadrera /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁa/  | 
 encadrerons /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 encadrerez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁe/  | 
 encadreront /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  encadrerais /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 encadrerais /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 encadrerait /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/  | 
 encadrerions /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 encadreriez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.ʁje/  | 
 encadreraient /ɑ̃.ka.dʁə.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 |  encadre /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
 encadres /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
 encadre /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
 encadrions /ɑ̃.ka.dʁi.jɔ̃/  | 
 encadriez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁi.je/  | 
 encadrent /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
encadrasse /ɑ̃.ka.dʁas/  | 
encadrasses /ɑ̃.ka.dʁas/  | 
encadrât /ɑ̃.ka.dʁa/  | 
encadrassions /ɑ̃.ka.dʁa.sjɔ̃/  | 
encadrassiez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁa.sje/  | 
encadrassent /ɑ̃.ka.dʁas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  encadre /ɑ̃.kadʁ/  | 
— |  encadrons /ɑ̃.ka.dʁɔ̃/  | 
 encadrez /ɑ̃.ka.dʁe/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||