narrer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin narrō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.ʁe/
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Verb
narrer
- to narrate, to tell (e.g. a story)
Conjugation
Conjugation of narrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | narrer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | narrant /na.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | narré /na.ʁe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | narre /naʁ/ | narres /naʁ/ | narre /naʁ/ | narrons /na.ʁɔ̃/ | narrez /na.ʁe/ | narrent /naʁ/ |
imperfect | narrais /na.ʁɛ/ | narrais /na.ʁɛ/ | narrait /na.ʁɛ/ | narrions /na.ʁjɔ̃/ | narriez /na.ʁje/ | narraient /na.ʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | narrai /na.ʁe/ | narras /na.ʁa/ | narra /na.ʁa/ | narrâmes /na.ʁam/ | narrâtes /na.ʁat/ | narrèrent /na.ʁɛʁ/ | |
future | narrerai /na.ʁə.ʁe/ | narreras /na.ʁə.ʁa/ | narrera /na.ʁə.ʁa/ | narrerons /na.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | narrerez /na.ʁə.ʁe/ | narreront /na.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | narrerais /na.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | narrerais /na.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | narrerait /na.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | narrerions /na.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | narreriez /na.ʁə.ʁje/ | narreraient /na.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 | narre /naʁ/ | narres /naʁ/ | narre /naʁ/ | narrions /na.ʁjɔ̃/ | narriez /na.ʁje/ | narrent /naʁ/ |
imperfect2 | narrasse /na.ʁas/ | narrasses /na.ʁas/ | narrât /na.ʁa/ | narrassions /na.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | narrassiez /na.ʁa.sje/ | narrassent /na.ʁas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | narre /naʁ/ | — | narrons /na.ʁɔ̃/ | narrez /na.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
- narration
- narratif
Further reading
- “narrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
nārrer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of nārrō