centrifuger
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
centrifuger
- to centrifuge
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written centrifuge- 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.
Conjugation of centrifuger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | centrifuger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | centrifugeant /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | centrifugé /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | centrifuge /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | centrifuges /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | centrifuge /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | centrifugeons /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɔ̃/ | centrifugez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒe/ | centrifugent /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ |
| imperfect | centrifugeais /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɛ/ | centrifugeais /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɛ/ | centrifugeait /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɛ/ | centrifugions /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒjɔ̃/ | centrifugiez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒje/ | centrifugeaient /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | centrifugeai /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒe/ | centrifugeas /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒa/ | centrifugea /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒa/ | centrifugeâmes /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒam/ | centrifugeâtes /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒat/ | centrifugèrent /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | centrifugerai /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁe/ | centrifugeras /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁa/ | centrifugera /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁa/ | centrifugerons /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | centrifugerez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁe/ | centrifugeront /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | centrifugerais /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁɛ/ | centrifugerais /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁɛ/ | centrifugerait /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.ʁɛ/ | centrifugerions /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | centrifugeriez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒə.ʁje/ | centrifugeraient /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ.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 | centrifuge /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | centrifuges /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | centrifuge /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | centrifugions /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒjɔ̃/ | centrifugiez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒje/ | centrifugent /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | centrifugeasse /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒas/ | centrifugeasses /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒas/ | centrifugeât /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒa/ | centrifugeassions /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | centrifugeassiez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒa.sje/ | centrifugeassent /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | centrifuge /sɑ̃.tʁi.fyʒ/ | — | centrifugeons /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒɔ̃/ | centrifugez /sɑ̃.tʁi.fy.ʒe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “centrifuger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Noun
centrifuger
- indefinite plural of centrifug.