corseter
French
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il corsète rather than *il corsete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of corseter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | corseter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | corsetant /kɔʁ.sə.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | corseté /kɔʁ.sə.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
corsètes /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
corsetons /kɔʁ.sə.tɔ̃/ |
corsetez /kɔʁ.sə.te/ |
corsètent /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
| imperfect | corsetais /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/ |
corsetais /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/ |
corsetait /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/ |
corsetions /kɔʁ.sə.tjɔ̃/ |
corsetiez /kɔʁ.sə.tje/ |
corsetaient /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | corsetai /kɔʁ.sə.te/ |
corsetas /kɔʁ.sə.ta/ |
corseta /kɔʁ.sə.ta/ |
corsetâmes /kɔʁ.sə.tam/ |
corsetâtes /kɔʁ.sə.tat/ |
corsetèrent /kɔʁ.sə.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | corsèterai /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁe/ |
corsèteras /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁa/ |
corsètera /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁa/ |
corsèterons /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɔ̃/ |
corsèterez /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁe/ |
corsèteront /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | corsèterais /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/ |
corsèterais /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/ |
corsèterait /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/ |
corsèterions /kɔʁ.sɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔʁ.se.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
corsèteriez /kɔʁ.sɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kɔʁ.se.tə.ʁje/ |
corsèteraient /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
corsètes /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
corsetions /kɔʁ.sə.tjɔ̃/ |
corsetiez /kɔʁ.sə.tje/ |
corsètent /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | corsetasse /kɔʁ.sə.tas/ |
corsetasses /kɔʁ.sə.tas/ |
corsetât /kɔʁ.sə.ta/ |
corsetassions /kɔʁ.sə.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
corsetassiez /kɔʁ.sə.ta.sje/ |
corsetassent /kɔʁ.sə.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/ |
— | corsetons /kɔʁ.sə.tɔ̃/ |
corsetez /kɔʁ.sə.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “corseter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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