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materner
materner
French
Verb
materner
- (transitive) to mother, mollycoddle
Conjugation
Conjugation of materner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | materner | avoir materné | |||||
| gerund | en maternant | en ayant materné | |||||
| present participle | maternant /ma.tɛʁ.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | materné /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternes /ma.tɛʁn/ |
materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/ |
maternez /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ |
maternent /ma.tɛʁn/ |
| imperfect | maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
maternais /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
maternait /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/ |
materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/ |
maternaient /ma.tɛʁ.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | maternai /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ |
maternas /ma.tɛʁ.na/ |
materna /ma.tɛʁ.na/ |
maternâmes /ma.tɛʁ.nam/ |
maternâtes /ma.tɛʁ.nat/ |
maternèrent /ma.tɛʁ.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | maternerai /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
materneras /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
maternera /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
maternerons /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
maternerez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
materneront /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
maternerais /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
maternerait /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
maternerions /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
materneriez /ma.tɛʁ.nə.ʁje/ |
materneraient /ma.tɛʁ.nə.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 | materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternes /ma.tɛʁn/ |
materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
maternions /ma.tɛʁ.njɔ̃/ |
materniez /ma.tɛʁ.nje/ |
maternent /ma.tɛʁn/ |
| imperfect1 |
maternasse /ma.tɛʁ.nas/ |
maternasses /ma.tɛʁ.nas/ |
maternât /ma.tɛʁ.na/ |
maternassions /ma.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
maternassiez /ma.tɛʁ.na.sje/ |
maternassent /ma.tɛʁ.nas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | materne /ma.tɛʁn/ |
— | maternons /ma.tɛʁ.nɔ̃/ |
maternez /ma.tɛʁ.ne/ |
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