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sous-entendre
sous-entendre
French
Verb
sous-entendre
- to imply
Conjugation
Conjugation of sous-entendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | sous-entendre | avoir sous-entendu | |||||
| gerund | en sous-entendant | en ayant sous-entendu | |||||
| present participle | sous-entendant /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | sous-entendu /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | sous-entends /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃/ |
sous-entends /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃/ |
sous-entend /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃/ |
sous-entendons /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
sous-entendez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.de/ |
sous-entendent /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | sous-entendais /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
sous-entendais /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
sous-entendait /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
sous-entendions /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
sous-entendiez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dje/ |
sous-entendaient /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | sous-entendis /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/ |
sous-entendis /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/ |
sous-entendit /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/ |
sous-entendîmes /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dim/ |
sous-entendîtes /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dit/ |
sous-entendirent /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.diʁ/ |
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| future | sous-entendrai /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
sous-entendras /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
sous-entendra /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
sous-entendrons /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
sous-entendrez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
sous-entendront /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | sous-entendrais /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
sous-entendrais /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
sous-entendrait /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
sous-entendrions /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
sous-entendriez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
sous-entendraient /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
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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 | sous-entende /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃d/ |
sous-entendes /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃d/ |
sous-entende /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃d/ |
sous-entendions /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
sous-entendiez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dje/ |
sous-entendent /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect1 |
sous-entendisse /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dis/ |
sous-entendisses /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dis/ |
sous-entendît /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/ |
sous-entendissions /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
sous-entendissiez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.di.sje/ |
sous-entendissent /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | sous-entends /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃/ |
— | sous-entendons /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
sous-entendez /su.ɑ̃.tɑ̃.de/ |
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