nacrer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.kʁe/
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Verb
nacrer
- to give the appearance of mother-of-pearl
Conjugation
Conjugation of nacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | nacrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | nacrant /na.kʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | nacré /na.kʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | nacre /nakʁ/ | nacres /nakʁ/ | nacre /nakʁ/ | nacrons /na.kʁɔ̃/ | nacrez /na.kʁe/ | nacrent /nakʁ/ |
| imperfect | nacrais /na.kʁɛ/ | nacrais /na.kʁɛ/ | nacrait /na.kʁɛ/ | nacrions /na.kʁi.jɔ̃/ | nacriez /na.kʁi.je/ | nacraient /na.kʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | nacrai /na.kʁe/ | nacras /na.kʁa/ | nacra /na.kʁa/ | nacrâmes /na.kʁam/ | nacrâtes /na.kʁat/ | nacrèrent /na.kʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | nacrerai /na.kʁə.ʁe/ | nacreras /na.kʁə.ʁa/ | nacrera /na.kʁə.ʁa/ | nacrerons /na.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | nacrerez /na.kʁə.ʁe/ | nacreront /na.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | nacrerais /na.kʁə.ʁɛ/ | nacrerais /na.kʁə.ʁɛ/ | nacrerait /na.kʁə.ʁɛ/ | nacrerions /na.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | nacreriez /na.kʁə.ʁje/ | nacreraient /na.kʁə.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 | nacre /nakʁ/ | nacres /nakʁ/ | nacre /nakʁ/ | nacrions /na.kʁi.jɔ̃/ | nacriez /na.kʁi.je/ | nacrent /nakʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | nacrasse /na.kʁas/ | nacrasses /na.kʁas/ | nacrât /na.kʁa/ | nacrassions /na.kʁa.sjɔ̃/ | nacrassiez /na.kʁa.sje/ | nacrassent /na.kʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | nacre /nakʁ/ | — | nacrons /na.kʁɔ̃/ | nacrez /na.kʁe/ | — | |
| 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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- renacrer
Further reading
- “nacrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.