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glacer
glacer
French
Verb
glacer
- (transitive) to freeze; to turn to ice
- (figuratively, transitive) to freeze
- to ice (cover with icing)
- (reflexive, se glacer) to turn to ice (become ice)
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Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of glacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | glacer | avoir glacé | |||||
| gerund | en glaçant | en ayant glacé | |||||
| present participle | glaçant /ɡla.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | glacé /ɡla.se/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | glace /ɡlas/ |
glaces /ɡlas/ |
glace /ɡlas/ |
glaçons /ɡla.sɔ̃/ |
glacez /ɡla.se/ |
glacent /ɡlas/ |
| imperfect | glaçais /ɡla.sɛ/ |
glaçais /ɡla.sɛ/ |
glaçait /ɡla.sɛ/ |
glacions /ɡla.sjɔ̃/ |
glaciez /ɡla.sje/ |
glaçaient /ɡla.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | glaçai /ɡla.se/ |
glaças /ɡla.sa/ |
glaça /ɡla.sa/ |
glaçâmes /ɡla.sam/ |
glaçâtes /ɡla.sat/ |
glacèrent /ɡla.sɛʁ/ |
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| future | glacerai /ɡla.sʁe/ |
glaceras /ɡla.sʁa/ |
glacera /ɡla.sʁa/ |
glacerons /ɡla.sʁɔ̃/ |
glacerez /ɡla.sʁe/ |
glaceront /ɡla.sʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | glacerais /ɡla.sʁɛ/ |
glacerais /ɡla.sʁɛ/ |
glacerait /ɡla.sʁɛ/ |
glacerions /ɡla.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
glaceriez /ɡla.sə.ʁje/ |
glaceraient /ɡla.sʁɛ/ |
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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 | glace /ɡlas/ |
glaces /ɡlas/ |
glace /ɡlas/ |
glacions /ɡla.sjɔ̃/ |
glaciez /ɡla.sje/ |
glacent /ɡlas/ |
| imperfect1 |
glaçasse /ɡla.sas/ |
glaçasses /ɡla.sas/ |
glaçât /ɡla.sa/ |
glaçassions /ɡla.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
glaçassiez /ɡla.sa.sje/ |
glaçassent /ɡla.sas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | glace /ɡlas/ |
— | glaçons /ɡla.sɔ̃/ |
glacez /ɡla.se/ |
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