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mériter
mériter
See also: meriter
French
Verb
mériter
Conjugation
Conjugation of mériter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | mériter | avoir mérité | |||||
| gerund | en méritant | en ayant mérité | |||||
| present participle | méritant /me.ʁi.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | mérité /me.ʁi.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mérite /me.ʁit/ |
mérites /me.ʁit/ |
mérite /me.ʁit/ |
méritons /me.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
méritez /me.ʁi.te/ |
méritent /me.ʁit/ |
| imperfect | méritais /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
méritais /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
méritait /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
méritions /me.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
méritiez /me.ʁi.tje/ |
méritaient /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | méritai /me.ʁi.te/ |
méritas /me.ʁi.ta/ |
mérita /me.ʁi.ta/ |
méritâmes /me.ʁi.tam/ |
méritâtes /me.ʁi.tat/ |
méritèrent /me.ʁi.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | mériterai /me.ʁi.tʁe/ |
mériteras /me.ʁi.tʁa/ |
méritera /me.ʁi.tʁa/ |
mériterons /me.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
mériterez /me.ʁi.tʁe/ |
mériteront /me.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | mériterais /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
mériterais /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
mériterait /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
mériterions /me.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mériteriez /me.ʁi.tə.ʁje/ |
mériteraient /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | mérite /me.ʁit/ |
mérites /me.ʁit/ |
mérite /me.ʁit/ |
méritions /me.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
méritiez /me.ʁi.tje/ |
méritent /me.ʁit/ |
| imperfect1 |
méritasse /me.ʁi.tas/ |
méritasses /me.ʁi.tas/ |
méritât /me.ʁi.ta/ |
méritassions /me.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
méritassiez /me.ʁi.ta.sje/ |
méritassent /me.ʁi.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | mérite /me.ʁit/ |
— | méritons /me.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
méritez /me.ʁi.te/ |
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