conclure
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French conclure, borrowed from Latin conclūdere.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editconclure
- to conclude
- (transitive) to attain, to reach
- La ville et la province ont conclu une entente. ― The city and the province have reached an agreement.
- (intransitive, informal) to score, to get it on (to have sex) [with avec ‘with someone’]
Conjugation
editConjugation of conclure (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | conclure | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | concluant /kɔ̃.kly.ɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | conclu /kɔ̃.kly/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | conclus /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclus /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclut /kɔ̃.kly/ |
concluons /kɔ̃.kly.ɔ̃/ |
concluez /kɔ̃.kly.e/ |
concluent /kɔ̃.kly/ |
imperfect | concluais /kɔ̃.kly.ɛ/ |
concluais /kɔ̃.kly.ɛ/ |
concluait /kɔ̃.kly.ɛ/ |
concluions /kɔ̃.kly.jɔ̃/ |
concluiez /kɔ̃.kly.je/ |
concluaient /kɔ̃.kly.ɛ/ | |
past historic2 | conclus /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclus /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclut /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclûmes /kɔ̃.klym/ |
conclûtes /kɔ̃.klyt/ |
conclurent /kɔ̃.klyʁ/ | |
future | conclurai /kɔ̃.kly.ʁe/ |
concluras /kɔ̃.kly.ʁa/ |
conclura /kɔ̃.kly.ʁa/ |
conclurons /kɔ̃.kly.ʁɔ̃/ |
conclurez /kɔ̃.kly.ʁe/ |
concluront /kɔ̃.kly.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | conclurais /kɔ̃.kly.ʁɛ/ |
conclurais /kɔ̃.kly.ʁɛ/ |
conclurait /kɔ̃.kly.ʁɛ/ |
conclurions /kɔ̃.kly.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concluriez /kɔ̃.kly.ʁje/ |
concluraient /kɔ̃.kly.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 | conclue /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclues /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclue /kɔ̃.kly/ |
concluions /kɔ̃.kly.jɔ̃/ |
concluiez /kɔ̃.kly.je/ |
concluent /kɔ̃.kly/ |
imperfect2 | conclusse /kɔ̃.klys/ |
conclusses /kɔ̃.klys/ |
conclût /kɔ̃.kly/ |
conclussions /kɔ̃.kly.sjɔ̃/ |
conclussiez /kɔ̃.kly.sje/ |
conclussent /kɔ̃.klys/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | conclus /kɔ̃.kly/ |
— | concluons /kɔ̃.kly.ɔ̃/ |
concluez /kɔ̃.kly.e/ |
— | |
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). |
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “conclure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin conclūdere.
Verb
editconclure
- to conclude
Conjugation
editThis verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of conclure (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
Descendants
edit- French: conclure
Further reading
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (conclure, supplement)
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