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lacérer
lacérer
See also: lacerer
French
Verb
lacérer
- lacerate (to tear, rip or wound)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written lacérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written lacèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of lacérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | lacérer | avoir lacéré | |||||
| gerund | en lacérant | en ayant lacéré | |||||
| present participle | lacérant /la.se.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | lacéré /la.se.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | lacère /la.sɛʁ/ |
lacères /la.sɛʁ/ |
lacère /la.sɛʁ/ |
lacérons /la.se.ʁɔ̃/ |
lacérez /la.se.ʁe/ |
lacèrent /la.sɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | lacérais /la.se.ʁɛ/ |
lacérais /la.se.ʁɛ/ |
lacérait /la.se.ʁɛ/ |
lacérions /la.se.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lacériez /la.se.ʁje/ |
lacéraient /la.se.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | lacérai /la.se.ʁe/ |
lacéras /la.se.ʁa/ |
lacéra /la.se.ʁa/ |
lacérâmes /la.se.ʁam/ |
lacérâtes /la.se.ʁat/ |
lacérèrent /la.se.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | lacèrerai or lacérerai /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
lacèreras or lacéreras /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
lacèrera or lacérera /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
lacèrerons or lacérerons /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
lacèrerez or lacérerez /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
lacèreront or lacéreront /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | lacèrerais or lacérerais /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
lacèrerais or lacérerais /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
lacèrerait or lacérerait /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
lacèrerions or lacérerions /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lacèreriez or lacéreriez /la.sɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
lacèreraient or lacéreraient /la.sɛ.ʁə.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 | lacère /la.sɛʁ/ |
lacères /la.sɛʁ/ |
lacère /la.sɛʁ/ |
lacérions /la.se.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lacériez /la.se.ʁje/ |
lacèrent /la.sɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
lacérasse /la.se.ʁas/ |
lacérasses /la.se.ʁas/ |
lacérât /la.se.ʁa/ |
lacérassions /la.se.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
lacérassiez /la.se.ʁa.sje/ |
lacérassent /la.se.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | lacère /la.sɛʁ/ |
— | lacérons /la.se.ʁɔ̃/ |
lacérez /la.se.ʁe/ |
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