Backformation from sécrétion
sécréter
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 sécréter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written sécrèter-, 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 | sécréter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sécrétant /se.kʁe.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sécrété /se.kʁe.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sécrète /se.kʁɛt/ |
sécrètes /se.kʁɛt/ |
sécrète /se.kʁɛt/ |
sécrétons /se.kʁe.tɔ̃/ |
sécrétez /se.kʁe.te/ |
sécrètent /se.kʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | sécrétais /se.kʁe.tɛ/ |
sécrétais /se.kʁe.tɛ/ |
sécrétait /se.kʁe.tɛ/ |
sécrétions /se.kʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
sécrétiez /se.kʁe.tje/ |
sécrétaient /se.kʁe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sécrétai /se.kʁe.te/ |
sécrétas /se.kʁe.ta/ |
sécréta /se.kʁe.ta/ |
sécrétâmes /se.kʁe.tam/ |
sécrétâtes /se.kʁe.tat/ |
sécrétèrent /se.kʁe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | sécrèterai or sécréterai /se.kʁɛ.tʁe/ or /se.kʁe.tʁe/ |
sécrèteras or sécréteras /se.kʁɛ.tʁa/ or /se.kʁe.tʁa/ |
sécrètera or sécrétera /se.kʁɛ.tʁa/ or /se.kʁe.tʁa/ |
sécrèterons or sécréterons /se.kʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /se.kʁe.tʁɔ̃/ |
sécrèterez or sécréterez /se.kʁɛ.tʁe/ or /se.kʁe.tʁe/ |
sécrèteront or sécréteront /se.kʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /se.kʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sécrèterais or sécréterais /se.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /se.kʁe.tʁɛ/ |
sécrèterais or sécréterais /se.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /se.kʁe.tʁɛ/ |
sécrèterait or sécréterait /se.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /se.kʁe.tʁɛ/ |
sécrèterions or sécréterions /se.kʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /se.kʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sécrèteriez or sécréteriez /se.kʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /se.kʁe.tə.ʁje/ |
sécrèteraient or sécréteraient /se.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /se.kʁe.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 | sécrète /se.kʁɛt/ |
sécrètes /se.kʁɛt/ |
sécrète /se.kʁɛt/ |
sécrétions /se.kʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
sécrétiez /se.kʁe.tje/ |
sécrètent /se.kʁɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | sécrétasse /se.kʁe.tas/ |
sécrétasses /se.kʁe.tas/ |
sécrétât /se.kʁe.ta/ |
sécrétassions /se.kʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
sécrétassiez /se.kʁe.ta.sje/ |
sécrétassent /se.kʁe.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sécrète /se.kʁɛt/ |
— | sécrétons /se.kʁe.tɔ̃/ |
sécrétez /se.kʁe.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||