connaitre
See also: connaître
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
connaitre
Conjugation edit
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are conjugated the same as the alternative spelling, which has a circumflex over the 'i', except that the circumflex is dropped here.
Conjugation of connaitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | connaitre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | connaissant /kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | connu /kɔ.ny/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | connais /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connais /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connait /kɔ.nɛ/ |
connaissons /kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/ |
connaissez /kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /kɔ.ne.se/ |
connaissent /kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect | connaissais /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.sɛ/ |
connaissais /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.sɛ/ |
connaissait /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.sɛ/ |
connaissions /kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/ |
connaissiez /kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /kɔ.ne.sje/ |
connaissaient /kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | connus /kɔ.ny/ |
connus /kɔ.ny/ |
connut /kɔ.ny/ |
connûmes /kɔ.nym/ |
connûtes /kɔ.nyt/ |
connurent /kɔ.nyʁ/ | |
| future | connaitrai /kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁe/ |
connaitras /kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁa/ |
connaitra /kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁa/ |
connaitrons /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/ |
connaitrez /kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁe/ |
connaitront /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | connaitrais /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ |
connaitrais /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ |
connaitrait /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ |
connaitrions /kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
connaitriez /kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁi.je/ |
connaitraient /kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | connaisse /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connaisses /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connaisse /kɔ.nɛs/ |
connaissions /kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/ |
connaissiez /kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /kɔ.ne.sje/ |
connaissent /kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect2 | connusse /kɔ.nys/ |
connusses /kɔ.nys/ |
connût /kɔ.ny/ |
connussions /kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/ |
connussiez /kɔ.ny.sje/ |
connussent /kɔ.nys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | connais /kɔ.nɛ/ |
— | connaissons /kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/ |
connaissez /kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /kɔ.ne.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
- “connaitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.