fiancer
French
Etymology
From fiance. Compare Italian fidanzare.
Verb
fiancer
- get engaged (to be married)
Conjugation
- This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of fiancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | fiancer | avoir fiancé | |||||
| gerund | en fiançant | en ayant fiancé | |||||
| present participle | fiançant | ||||||
| past participle | fiancé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | fiance | fiances | fiance | fiançons | fiancez | fiancent |
| imperfect | fiançais | fiançais | fiançait | fiancions | fianciez | fiançaient | |
| past historic1 | fiançai | fianças | fiança | fiançâmes | fiançâtes | fiancèrent | |
| future | fiancerai | fianceras | fiancera | fiancerons | fiancerez | fianceront | |
| conditional | fiancerais | fiancerais | fiancerait | fiancerions | fianceriez | fianceraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | fiance | fiances | fiance | fiancions | fianciez | fiancent |
| imperfect1 | fiançasse | fiançasses | fiançât | fiançassions | fiançassiez | fiançassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | fiance | — | fiançons | fiancez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
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