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arriérer
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written arriérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written arrièrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| infinitive | simple | arriérer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | arriérant /a.ʁje.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | arriéré /a.ʁje.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | arrière /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
arrières /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
arrière /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
arriérons /a.ʁje.ʁɔ̃/ |
arriérez /a.ʁje.ʁe/ |
arrièrent /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | arriérais /a.ʁje.ʁɛ/ |
arriérais /a.ʁje.ʁɛ/ |
arriérait /a.ʁje.ʁɛ/ |
arriérions /a.ʁje.ʁjɔ̃/ |
arriériez /a.ʁje.ʁje/ |
arriéraient /a.ʁje.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | arriérai /a.ʁje.ʁe/ |
arriéras /a.ʁje.ʁa/ |
arriéra /a.ʁje.ʁa/ |
arriérâmes /a.ʁje.ʁam/ |
arriérâtes /a.ʁje.ʁat/ |
arriérèrent /a.ʁje.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | arrièrerai or arriérerai /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁe/ |
arrièreras or arriéreras /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁa/ |
arrièrera or arriérera /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁa/ |
arrièrerons or arriérerons /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
arrièrerez or arriérerez /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁe/ |
arrièreront or arriéreront /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | arrièrerais or arriérerais /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
arrièrerais or arriérerais /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
arrièrerait or arriérerait /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
arrièrerions or arriérerions /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
arrièreriez or arriéreriez /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁje/ |
arrièreraient or arriéreraient /a.ʁjɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ʁje.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | arrière /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
arrières /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
arrière /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
arriérions /a.ʁje.ʁjɔ̃/ |
arriériez /a.ʁje.ʁje/ |
arrièrent /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | arriérasse /a.ʁje.ʁas/ |
arriérasses /a.ʁje.ʁas/ |
arriérât /a.ʁje.ʁa/ |
arriérassions /a.ʁje.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
arriérassiez /a.ʁje.ʁa.sje/ |
arriérassent /a.ʁje.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | arrière /a.ʁjɛʁ/ |
— | arriérons /a.ʁje.ʁɔ̃/ |
arriérez /a.ʁje.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||