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substantiver
substantiver
French
Etymology
From substantif + -er
Verb
substantiver
- to substantivise, nominalize
- Substantiver un adjectif, un infinitif.
Derived terms
Conjugation
Conjugation of substantiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | substantiver | avoir substantivé | |||||
| gerund | en substantivant | en ayant substantivé | |||||
| present participle | substantivant /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | substantivé /syp.stɑ̃.ti.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | substantive /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
substantives /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
substantive /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
substantivons /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɔ̃/ |
substantivez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.ve/ |
substantivent /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
| imperfect | substantivais /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɛ/ |
substantivais /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɛ/ |
substantivait /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɛ/ |
substantivions /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vjɔ̃/ |
substantiviez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vje/ |
substantivaient /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | substantivai /syp.stɑ̃.ti.ve/ |
substantivas /syp.stɑ̃.ti.va/ |
substantiva /syp.stɑ̃.ti.va/ |
substantivâmes /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vam/ |
substantivâtes /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vat/ |
substantivèrent /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | substantiverai /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁe/ |
substantiveras /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁa/ |
substantivera /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁa/ |
substantiverons /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁɔ̃/ |
substantiverez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁe/ |
substantiveront /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | substantiverais /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁɛ/ |
substantiverais /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁɛ/ |
substantiverait /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁɛ/ |
substantiverions /syp.stɑ̃.ti.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
substantiveriez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.və.ʁje/ |
substantiveraient /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vʁɛ/ |
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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 | substantive /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
substantives /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
substantive /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
substantivions /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vjɔ̃/ |
substantiviez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vje/ |
substantivent /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
| imperfect1 |
substantivasse /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vas/ |
substantivasses /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vas/ |
substantivât /syp.stɑ̃.ti.va/ |
substantivassions /syp.stɑ̃.ti.va.sjɔ̃/ |
substantivassiez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.va.sje/ |
substantivassent /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | substantive /syp.stɑ̃.tiv/ |
— | substantivons /syp.stɑ̃.ti.vɔ̃/ |
substantivez /syp.stɑ̃.ti.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- “substantiver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).