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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English synger, syngere, singere, singare, equivalent to sing + -er. Cognate with Scots singar, Saterland Frisian Sjunger, West Frisian sjonger, German Low German Singer. Compare also Old English sangere, Dutch zanger, German Low German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari.
Pronunciation
Noun
singer (plural singers)
- A person who sings, often professionally.
- (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: シンガー (shingā)
Translations
person who sings (male or generic term)
- Acehnese: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: sanger
- Albanian: këngëtar (sq) m
- Amharic: ዘፋኝ (zäfañ)
- Arabic: مُطْرِب m (muṭrib), مُغَنٍّ m (muḡannin) (indefinite), الْمُغَنِّي m (al-muḡannī) (definite)
- Egyptian Arabic: مغني m (moḡanni)
- South Levantine Arabic: مغني m (muḡanni)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܙܡܪܐ m (zammārā)
- Armenian: երգիչ (hy) (ergičʻ)
- Aromanian: cãntãtor m
- Assamese: গায়ক (gayok)
- Asturian: cantante m, cantor m
- Azerbaijani: müğənni (az), xanəndə
- Bashkir: йырсы (yırsı); йырау (yıraw) (traditional), йыраусы (yırawsı)
- Basque: abeslari (eu), kantari
- Belarusian: спява́к m (spjavák)
- Bengali: গায়ক (bn) (gaẏok)
- Berber:
- Tashelhit: amarir m
- Breton: kaner (br) m
- Bulgarian: певе́ц m (pevéc)
- Burmese: တေးသံရှင် (my) (te:samhrang), အဆိုတော် (my) (a.hcuitau)
- Catalan: cantant (ca) m, cantor (ca) m, cantaire (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 歌手 (go1 sau2)
- Dungan: чонҗязы (čonži͡azɨ), чонҗяр (čonži͡ar)
- Eastern Min: 歌手 (gŏ̤-chiū)
- Hakka: 歌手 (kô-sú)
- Hokkien: 歌手 (koa-chhiú / ko-chhiú)
- Mandarin: 歌手 (zh) (gēshǒu)
- Wu: 歌手 (1ku-seu)
- Corsican: cantadore m or f, cantante m
- Czech: zpěvák (cs) m
- Danish: sanger (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: zanger (nl) m
- Dzongkha: སྐད་འཐེན་མི (skad 'then mi)
- Esperanto: kantanto, kantisto (professional)
- Estonian: laulja (et), laulik
- Faroese: sangari m
- Finnish: laulaja (fi)
- French: chanteur (fr) m
- Friulian: cjantautôr m, cjantôr m, cjantant
- Galician: cantante (gl) m, cantor m
- Georgian: მომღერალი (momɣerali)
- German: Sänger (de) m, Sängerchen n (diminutive), Sängerlein n (diminutive)
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (liuþareis)
- Greek: τραγουδιστής (el) m (tragoudistís)
- Ancient: ἀοιδός (aoidós)
- Greenlandic: erinarsortartoq
- Gujarati: ગાયક (gāyak)
- Hebrew: זמר \ זַמָּר (he) m (zamár)
- Hindi: गायक (hi) m (gāyak)
- Hungarian: énekes (hu) m
- Icelandic: söngvari (is) m
- Indonesian: penyanyi (id)
- Ingrian: laulaja, peutsa
- Irish: amhránaí m, fonnadóir m
- Italian: cantante (it) m
- Japanese: 歌手 (ja) (かしゅ, kashu)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kalmyk: дууч (duuç)
- Kannada: ಗಾಯಕ (kn) (gāyaka)
- Kazakh: әнші (änşı)
- Khakas: ырӌы (ırcı), сарынӌы (sarıncı)
- Khmer: អ្នកចំរៀង (nĕək cɑmriəng), អ្នកច្រៀង (nĕək criəng), គីតិកា (kiitekaa) (female)
- Korean: 가수(歌手) (ko) (gasu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: گۆرانی بێژ (goranî bêj)
- Northern Kurdish: stranbêj (ku), kilambêj (ku), goranîbêj (ku), ahengbêj (ku)
- Kyrgyz: ырчы (ky) (ırcı), обончу (oboncu)
- Ladin: please add this translation if you can
- Lao: ນັກຮ້ອງ (nak hǭng)
- Latin: cantor (la) m
- Latvian: dziedātājs m
- Ligurian: cantànte m
- Lithuanian: dainininkas m
- Lombard: cantant (lmo) m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Singer m
- Lü: ᦋᦱᧂᧈᦣᦸᧂᧉ (tsaang¹hoang²)
- Luganda: omuyimbi
- Macedonian: пејач m (pejač)
- Malay: penyanyi (ms), biduan, vokalis, tukang nyanyi, pelagu
- Malayalam: ഗായകൻ (ml) (gāyakaṉ)
- Maltese: kantant m
- Maori: kaiwaiata
- Marathi: गायक m (gāyak)
- Middle English: synger
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: дуучин (mn) (duučin)
- Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠴᠢᠨ (daɣučin)
- Nahuatl: cuicani (nah)
- Norman: chanteux m
- Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sanger (no) m
- Nynorsk: songar m
- Occitan: cantaire (oc) m
- Old Occitan: chantador m
- Odia: ଗାୟକ (or) (gayôkô)
- Old English: sangere m
- Pashto: خواننده m or f (xānenda), سندربول m (sadǝrbol), آوازخوان m (āwāzxwān)
- Persian:
- Classical Persian: خْوَانَنْدَه (fa) (xwānanda)
- Dari: خوَانَنْدَه (fa) (xānanda)
- Iranian Persian: خوانَنْدِه (fa) (xânande)
- Piedmontese: cantant m
- Polish: piosenkarz (pl) m, śpiewak (pl) m
- Portuguese: cantor (pt) m
- Rakhine: please add this translation if you can
- Rohingya: gain
- Romagnol: cantânt m
- Romanian: cântăreț (ro) m
- Romansch: chantadur m
- Russian: певе́ц (ru) m (pevéc), вокали́ст (ru) m (vokalíst)
- Sanskrit: गायक (sa) m (gāyaka)
- Scots: sanger, sangster
- Scottish Gaelic: seinneadair, òranaiche m, neach-seinn m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пѐва̄ч m, пјѐва̄ч m
- Roman: pèvāč (sh) m, pjèvāč m
- Shan: ၵူၼ်းႁဵတ်းၵႂၢမ်း (kúun háet kwáam)
- Silesian: śpjywok m
- Slovak: spevák m
- Slovene: pevec (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: spiwaŕ m
- Upper Sorbian: spěwar m
- Spanish: cantante (es) m, cantor (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: singiman
- Swedish: sångare (sv) c
- Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
- Tachawit: acennay (shy)
- Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
- Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: сароянда (tg) (saroyanda), сурудхон (surudxon), ҳофиз (hofiz), муғаннӣ (muġannī), хонанда (tg) (xonanda)
- Tamil: பாடகர் (ta) (pāṭakar)
- Taos: yòʼóna
- Tatar: җырчы (tt) (cırçı)
- Tausug: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: పాటగాడు (pāṭagāḍu)
- Thai: นักร้อง (th) (nák-rɔ́ɔng)
- Tibetan: གླུ་བ (glu ba), གཞས་མ (gzhas ma)
- Tigrinya: ደራፊ (därafi)
- Tofa: ыршы
- Turkish: şarkıcı (tr), şantör (tr) m
- Turkmen: aýdymçi, bagşy (tk)
- Tuvan: ыраажы (ıraajı)
- Ukrainian: співа́к m (spivák)
- Urdu: گُلُو کار m (gulū kār)
- Uyghur: ناخشىچى (ug) (naxshichi)
- Uzbek: ashulachi (uz), qoʻshiqchi (uz), hofiz (uz)
- Vietnamese: ca sĩ (vi)
- Volapük: kanitan (vo), hikanitan (male)
- Walloon: tchanteu (wa) m
- Welsh: canwr m
- West Frisian: sjonger c
- Yakan: please add this translation if you can
- Yakut: ырыаһыт (ırıahıt)
- Yiddish: זינגער m (zinger)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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female person who sings
- Albanian: këngëtare (sq) f
- Arabic: مُغَنِّيَة f (muḡanniya)
- Egyptian Arabic: مغنية f (moḡaneya)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܙܡܪܬܐ f (zammārtā)
- Armenian: երգչուհի (hy) (ergčʻuhi)
- Asturian: cantante f
- Belarusian: спява́чка f (spjaváčka)
- Breton: kanerez (br) f
- Bulgarian: певи́ца f (pevíca)
- Catalan: cantant (ca) f
- Corsican: cantrice f
- Czech: zpěvačka (cs) f
- Danish: sangerinde (da) c
- Dutch: zangeres (nl) f
- Esperanto: kantantino, kantistino (professional)
- Estonian: lauljanna, lauljatar
- Faroese: sangarinna f
- French: chanteuse (fr) f
- Galician: cantante (gl) f
- German: Sängerin (de) f
- Greek: τραγουδίστρια (el) f (tragoudístria)
- Hebrew: זמרת \ זַמֶּרֶת f (zaméret)
- Hindi: गायिका f (gāyikā)
- Hungarian: énekesnő (hu) f
- Icelandic: söngkona (is) f
- Italian: cantante (it) f
- Khmer: គីតិកា (kiitekaa)
- Ladin: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: cantrīx (la) f
- Latvian: dziedātāja f
- Ligurian: cantànte f
- Lithuanian: dainininkė f
- Lombard: please add this translation if you can
- Low German:
- German Low German: Singerin f, Singersch f, Singersche f
- Macedonian: пејачка f (pejačka)
- Malay: biduanita
- Malayalam: ഗായിക (ml) (gāyika)
- Marathi: गायिका f (gāyikā)
- Norman: chant'rêsse f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sangerinne (no) f
- Nynorsk: songarinne f
- Occitan: cantaira f
- Old English: sangestre f
- Piedmontese: cantanta f
- Polish: piosenkarka (pl) f, śpiewaczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cantora (pt) f
- Romagnol: cantânta f
- Romanian: cântăreață (ro) f
- Romansch: chantadura f
- Russian: певи́ца (ru) f (pevíca), вокали́стка (ru) f (vokalístka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пева̀чица f, пјева̀чица f
- Roman: pevàčica (sh) f, pjevàčica (sh) f
- Slovak: speváčka f
- Slovene: pevka f
- Spanish: cantante (es) f, cantora f
- Swedish: sångerska (sv) c
- Telugu: పాటగత్తె (pāṭagatte)
- Tibetan: གླུ་མ (glu ma), གཞས་མ (gzhas ma)
- Turkish: şantöz (tr) f
- Ukrainian: співа́чка f (spiváčka)
- Urdu: گُلُو کارَہ f (gulū kāra)
- Volapük: jikanitan
- Walloon: tchanteuse (wa) f
- Welsh: cantores f
- West Frisian: sjongster c
- Yiddish: זינגערין f (zingerin)
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Etymology 2
From singe + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
singer (plural singers)
- A person who, or device which, singes.
- A machine for singeing cloth.
Translations
person or device that singes
Anagrams
- Greins, Negris, nigres, re-nigs, re-sign, reigns, renigs, resign, resing, ringes, signer
French
Etymology
In at least the ape sense, from singe (“monkey”).
Pronunciation
Verb
singer
- to ape
2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:[…] nous privilégions tous les deux les « interfaces humaines », comme ils disent, même quand elles singent, comme ici, une mauvaise IA.- we both favour "human interfaces", as they say, even when they mimic, as here, a bad AI.
- to sprinkle with flour
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written singe- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
infinitive
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simple
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singer
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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singeant /sɛ̃.ʒɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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singé /sɛ̃.ʒe/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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singe /sɛ̃ʒ/
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singes /sɛ̃ʒ/
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singe /sɛ̃ʒ/
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singeons /sɛ̃.ʒɔ̃/
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singez /sɛ̃.ʒe/
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singent /sɛ̃ʒ/
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imperfect
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singeais /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/
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singeais /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/
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singeait /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/
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singions /sɛ̃.ʒjɔ̃/
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singiez /sɛ̃.ʒje/
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singeaient /sɛ̃.ʒɛ/
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past historic2
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singeai /sɛ̃.ʒe/
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singeas /sɛ̃.ʒa/
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singea /sɛ̃.ʒa/
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singeâmes /sɛ̃.ʒam/
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singeâtes /sɛ̃.ʒat/
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singèrent /sɛ̃.ʒɛʁ/
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future
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singerai /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁe/
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singeras /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁa/
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singera /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁa/
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singerons /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
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singerez /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁe/
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singeront /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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singerais /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
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singerais /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
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singerait /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
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singerions /sɛ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/
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singeriez /sɛ̃.ʒə.ʁje/
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singeraient /sɛ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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singe /sɛ̃ʒ/
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singes /sɛ̃ʒ/
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singe /sɛ̃ʒ/
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singions /sɛ̃.ʒjɔ̃/
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singiez /sɛ̃.ʒje/
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singent /sɛ̃ʒ/
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imperfect2
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singeasse /sɛ̃.ʒas/
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singeasses /sɛ̃.ʒas/
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singeât /sɛ̃.ʒa/
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singeassions /sɛ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/
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singeassiez /sɛ̃.ʒa.sje/
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singeassent /sɛ̃.ʒas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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singe /sɛ̃ʒ/
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—
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singeons /sɛ̃.ʒɔ̃/
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singez /sɛ̃.ʒe/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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