adjectiver

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

adjectiver

1. to adjectivize

Conjugation

Conjugation of adjectiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	adjectiver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adjectivant /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adjectivé /a.dʒɛk.ti.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adjective /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	adjectives /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	adjective /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	adjectivons /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɔ̃/	adjectivez /a.dʒɛk.ti.ve/	adjectivent /a.dʒɛk.tiv/
	imperfect	adjectivais /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɛ/	adjectivais /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɛ/	adjectivait /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɛ/	adjectivions /a.dʒɛk.ti.vjɔ̃/	adjectiviez /a.dʒɛk.ti.vje/	adjectivaient /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɛ/
	past historic2	adjectivai /a.dʒɛk.ti.ve/	adjectivas /a.dʒɛk.ti.va/	adjectiva /a.dʒɛk.ti.va/	adjectivâmes /a.dʒɛk.ti.vam/	adjectivâtes /a.dʒɛk.ti.vat/	adjectivèrent /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɛʁ/
	future	adjectiverai /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁe/	adjectiveras /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁa/	adjectivera /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁa/	adjectiverons /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁɔ̃/	adjectiverez /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁe/	adjectiveront /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adjectiverais /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁɛ/	adjectiverais /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁɛ/	adjectiverait /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁɛ/	adjectiverions /a.dʒɛk.ti.və.ʁjɔ̃/	adjectiveriez /a.dʒɛk.ti.və.ʁje/	adjectiveraient /a.dʒɛk.ti.vʁɛ/
(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	adjective /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	adjectives /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	adjective /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	adjectivions /a.dʒɛk.ti.vjɔ̃/	adjectiviez /a.dʒɛk.ti.vje/	adjectivent /a.dʒɛk.tiv/
	imperfect2	adjectivasse /a.dʒɛk.ti.vas/	adjectivasses /a.dʒɛk.ti.vas/	adjectivât /a.dʒɛk.ti.va/	adjectivassions /a.dʒɛk.ti.va.sjɔ̃/	adjectivassiez /a.dʒɛk.ti.va.sje/	adjectivassent /a.dʒɛk.ti.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adjective /a.dʒɛk.tiv/	—	adjectivons /a.dʒɛk.ti.vɔ̃/	adjectivez /a.dʒɛk.ti.ve/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “adjectiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.