Borrowed fromLatinapproximāre.
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approximer
| infinitive | simple | approximer | |||||
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| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle orgerund1 | simple | approximant /a.pʁɔk.si.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | approximé /a.pʁɔk.si.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | approxime /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | approximes /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | approxime /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | approximons /a.pʁɔk.si.mɔ̃/ | approximez /a.pʁɔk.si.me/ | approximent /a.pʁɔk.sim/ |
| imperfect | approximais /a.pʁɔk.si.mɛ/ | approximais /a.pʁɔk.si.mɛ/ | approximait /a.pʁɔk.si.mɛ/ | approximions /a.pʁɔk.si.mjɔ̃/ | approximiez /a.pʁɔk.si.mje/ | approximaient /a.pʁɔk.si.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | approximai /a.pʁɔk.si.me/ | approximas /a.pʁɔk.si.ma/ | approxima /a.pʁɔk.si.ma/ | approximâmes /a.pʁɔk.si.mam/ | approximâtes /a.pʁɔk.si.mat/ | approximèrent /a.pʁɔk.si.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | approximerai /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁe/ | approximeras /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁa/ | approximera /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁa/ | approximerons /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁɔ̃/ | approximerez /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁe/ | approximeront /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | approximerais /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁɛ/ | approximerais /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁɛ/ | approximerait /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁɛ/ | approximerions /a.pʁɔk.si.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | approximeriez /a.pʁɔk.si.mə.ʁje/ | approximeraient /a.pʁɔk.sim.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | approxime /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | approximes /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | approxime /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | approximions /a.pʁɔk.si.mjɔ̃/ | approximiez /a.pʁɔk.si.mje/ | approximent /a.pʁɔk.sim/ |
| imperfect2 | approximasse /a.pʁɔk.si.mas/ | approximasses /a.pʁɔk.si.mas/ | approximât /a.pʁɔk.si.ma/ | approximassions /a.pʁɔk.si.ma.sjɔ̃/ | approximassiez /a.pʁɔk.si.ma.sje/ | approximassent /a.pʁɔk.si.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | approxime /a.pʁɔk.sim/ | — | approximons /a.pʁɔk.si.mɔ̃/ | approximez /a.pʁɔk.si.me/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. | |||||||
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). | |||||||
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