Borrowed from Latin trānsferre.
transférer
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 transférer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written transfèrer-, 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 | transférer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | transférant /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | transféré /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
transfères /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
transférons /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɔ̃/ |
transférez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/ |
transfèrent /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | transférais /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/ |
transférais /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/ |
transférait /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/ |
transférions /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transfériez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁje/ |
transféraient /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | transférai /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/ |
transféras /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa/ |
transféra /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa/ |
transférâmes /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁam/ |
transférâtes /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁat/ |
transférèrent /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | transfèrerai or transférerai /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁe/ |
transfèreras or transféreras /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁa/ |
transfèrera or transférera /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁa/ |
transfèrerons or transférerons /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
transfèrerez or transférerez /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁe/ |
transfèreront or transféreront /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | transfèrerais or transférerais /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
transfèrerais or transférerais /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
transfèrerait or transférerait /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
transfèrerions or transférerions /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transfèreriez or transféreriez /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁje/ |
transfèreraient or transféreraient /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.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 | transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
transfères /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
transférions /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transfériez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁje/ |
transfèrent /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | transférasse /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁas/ |
transférasses /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁas/ |
transférât /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa/ |
transférassions /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
transférassiez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa.sje/ |
transférassent /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/ |
— | transférons /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɔ̃/ |
transférez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.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). | |||||||