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gravir
gravir
French
Verb
gravir
- to climb up
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 gravir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | gravir | avoir gravi | |||||
| gerund | en gravissant | en ayant gravi | |||||
| present participle | gravissant /ɡʁa.vi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | gravi /ɡʁa.vi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | gravis /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravis /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravit /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravissons /ɡʁa.vi.sɔ̃/ |
gravissez /ɡʁa.vi.se/ |
gravissent /ɡʁa.vis/ |
| imperfect | gravissais /ɡʁa.vi.sɛ/ |
gravissais /ɡʁa.vi.sɛ/ |
gravissait /ɡʁa.vi.sɛ/ |
gravissions /ɡʁa.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
gravissiez /ɡʁa.vi.sje/ |
gravissaient /ɡʁa.vi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | gravis /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravis /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravit /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravîmes /ɡʁa.vim/ |
gravîtes /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravirent /ɡʁa.viʁ/ |
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| future | gravirai /ɡʁa.vi.ʁe/ |
graviras /ɡʁa.vi.ʁa/ |
gravira /ɡʁa.vi.ʁa/ |
gravirons /ɡʁa.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
gravirez /ɡʁa.vi.ʁe/ |
graviront /ɡʁa.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | gravirais /ɡʁa.vi.ʁɛ/ |
gravirais /ɡʁa.vi.ʁɛ/ |
gravirait /ɡʁa.vi.ʁɛ/ |
gravirions /ɡʁa.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
graviriez /ɡʁa.vi.ʁje/ |
graviraient /ɡʁa.vi.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 | gravisse /ɡʁa.vis/ |
gravisses /ɡʁa.vis/ |
gravisse /ɡʁa.vis/ |
gravissions /ɡʁa.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
gravissiez /ɡʁa.vi.sje/ |
gravissent /ɡʁa.vis/ |
| imperfect1 |
gravisse /ɡʁa.vis/ |
gravisses /ɡʁa.vis/ |
gravît /ɡʁa.vi/ |
gravissions /ɡʁa.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
gravissiez /ɡʁa.vi.sje/ |
gravissent /ɡʁa.vis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | gravis /ɡʁa.vi/ |
— | gravissons /ɡʁa.vi.sɔ̃/ |
gravissez /ɡʁa.vi.se/ |
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