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expliquer
expliquer
French
Verb
expliquer
- to explain
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Conjugation
Conjugation of expliquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | expliquer | avoir expliqué | |||||
| gerund | en expliquant | en ayant expliqué | |||||
| present participle | expliquant /ɛk.spli.kɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | expliqué /ɛk.spli.ke/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | explique /ɛk.splik/ |
expliques /ɛk.splik/ |
explique /ɛk.splik/ |
expliquons /ɛk.spli.kɔ̃/ |
expliquez /ɛk.spli.ke/ |
expliquent /ɛk.splik/ |
| imperfect | expliquais /ɛk.spli.kɛ/ |
expliquais /ɛk.spli.kɛ/ |
expliquait /ɛk.spli.kɛ/ |
expliquions /ɛk.spli.kjɔ̃/ |
expliquiez /ɛk.spli.kje/ |
expliquaient /ɛk.spli.kɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | expliquai /ɛk.spli.ke/ |
expliquas /ɛk.spli.ka/ |
expliqua /ɛk.spli.ka/ |
expliquâmes /ɛk.spli.kam/ |
expliquâtes /ɛk.spli.kat/ |
expliquèrent /ɛk.spli.kɛʁ/ |
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| future | expliquerai /ɛk.spli.kʁe/ |
expliqueras /ɛk.spli.kʁa/ |
expliquera /ɛk.spli.kʁa/ |
expliquerons /ɛk.spli.kʁɔ̃/ |
expliquerez /ɛk.spli.kʁe/ |
expliqueront /ɛk.spli.kʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | expliquerais /ɛk.spli.kʁɛ/ |
expliquerais /ɛk.spli.kʁɛ/ |
expliquerait /ɛk.spli.kʁɛ/ |
expliquerions /ɛk.spli.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expliqueriez /ɛk.spli.kə.ʁje/ |
expliqueraient /ɛk.spli.kʁɛ/ |
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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 | explique /ɛk.splik/ |
expliques /ɛk.splik/ |
explique /ɛk.splik/ |
expliquions /ɛk.spli.kjɔ̃/ |
expliquiez /ɛk.spli.kje/ |
expliquent /ɛk.splik/ |
| imperfect1 |
expliquasse /ɛk.spli.kas/ |
expliquasses /ɛk.spli.kas/ |
expliquât /ɛk.spli.ka/ |
expliquassions /ɛk.spli.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
expliquassiez /ɛk.spli.ka.sje/ |
expliquassent /ɛk.spli.kas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | explique /ɛk.splik/ |
— | expliquons /ɛk.spli.kɔ̃/ |
expliquez /ɛk.spli.ke/ |
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