éclipser
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /e.klip.se/
Audio (file) - Homophones: éclipsai, éclipsé, éclipsée, éclipsées, éclipsés
- Hyphenation: é‧clip‧ser
Verb edit
éclipser
- (astronomy) to eclipse
- (figuratively) to eclipse, to overshadow, to surpass
- (reflexive) to slip away, to escape
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of éclipser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éclipser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | éclipsant /e.klip.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | éclipsé /e.klip.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | éclipse /e.klips/ |
éclipses /e.klips/ |
éclipse /e.klips/ |
éclipsons /e.klip.sɔ̃/ |
éclipsez /e.klip.se/ |
éclipsent /e.klips/ |
| imperfect | éclipsais /e.klip.sɛ/ |
éclipsais /e.klip.sɛ/ |
éclipsait /e.klip.sɛ/ |
éclipsions /e.klip.sjɔ̃/ |
éclipsiez /e.klip.sje/ |
éclipsaient /e.klip.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | éclipsai /e.klip.se/ |
éclipsas /e.klip.sa/ |
éclipsa /e.klip.sa/ |
éclipsâmes /e.klip.sam/ |
éclipsâtes /e.klip.sat/ |
éclipsèrent /e.klip.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | éclipserai /e.klip.sə.ʁe/ |
éclipseras /e.klip.sə.ʁa/ |
éclipsera /e.klip.sə.ʁa/ |
éclipserons /e.klip.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
éclipserez /e.klip.sə.ʁe/ |
éclipseront /e.klip.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éclipserais /e.klip.sə.ʁɛ/ |
éclipserais /e.klip.sə.ʁɛ/ |
éclipserait /e.klip.sə.ʁɛ/ |
éclipserions /e.klip.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
éclipseriez /e.klip.sə.ʁje/ |
éclipseraient /e.klip.sə.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 | éclipse /e.klips/ |
éclipses /e.klips/ |
éclipse /e.klips/ |
éclipsions /e.klip.sjɔ̃/ |
éclipsiez /e.klip.sje/ |
éclipsent /e.klips/ |
| imperfect2 | éclipsasse /e.klip.sas/ |
éclipsasses /e.klip.sas/ |
éclipsât /e.klip.sa/ |
éclipsassions /e.klip.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
éclipsassiez /e.klip.sa.sje/ |
éclipsassent /e.klip.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | éclipse /e.klips/ |
— | éclipsons /e.klip.sɔ̃/ |
éclipsez /e.klip.se/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- “éclipser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.