excentrer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

excentrer

1. to offset

Conjugation

Conjugation of excentrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	excentrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	excentrant /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		excentré /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	excentre /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	excentres /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	excentre /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	excentrons /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	excentrez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe/	excentrent /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/
	imperfect	excentrais /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	excentrais /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	excentrait /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	excentrions /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	excentriez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁi.je/	excentraient /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	excentrai /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe/	excentras /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁa/	excentra /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁa/	excentrâmes /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁam/	excentrâtes /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁat/	excentrèrent /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɛʁ/
	future	excentrerai /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	excentreras /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	excentrera /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	excentrerons /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	excentrerez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	excentreront /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	excentrerais /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	excentrerais /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	excentrerait /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	excentrerions /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	excentreriez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁje/	excentreraient /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁə.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	excentre /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	excentres /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	excentre /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	excentrions /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	excentriez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁi.je/	excentrent /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/
	imperfect2	excentrasse /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁas/	excentrasses /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁas/	excentrât /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁa/	excentrassions /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	excentrassiez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁa.sje/	excentrassent /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	excentre /ɛk.sɑ̃tʁ/	—	excentrons /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	excentrez /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe/	—
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

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