narrer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin narrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.ʁe/

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Verb

narrer

1. (formal) to narrate, to tell (e.g. a story)

   Synonym: raconter

Conjugation

Conjugation of narrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	narrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	narrant /na.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		narré /na.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	narre /naʁ/	narres /naʁ/	narre /naʁ/	narrons /na.ʁɔ̃/	narrez /na.ʁe/	narrent /naʁ/
	imperfect	narrais /na.ʁɛ/	narrais /na.ʁɛ/	narrait /na.ʁɛ/	narrions /na.ʁjɔ̃/	narriez /na.ʁje/	narraient /na.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	narrai /na.ʁe/	narras /na.ʁa/	narra /na.ʁa/	narrâmes /na.ʁam/	narrâtes /na.ʁat/	narrèrent /na.ʁɛʁ/
	future	narrerai /na.ʁə.ʁe/	narreras /na.ʁə.ʁa/	narrera /na.ʁə.ʁa/	narrerons /na.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	narrerez /na.ʁə.ʁe/	narreront /na.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	narrerais /na.ʁə.ʁɛ/	narrerais /na.ʁə.ʁɛ/	narrerait /na.ʁə.ʁɛ/	narrerions /na.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	narreriez /na.ʁə.ʁje/	narreraient /na.ʁə.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	narre /naʁ/	narres /naʁ/	narre /naʁ/	narrions /na.ʁjɔ̃/	narriez /na.ʁje/	narrent /naʁ/
	imperfect2	narrasse /na.ʁas/	narrasses /na.ʁas/	narrât /na.ʁa/	narrassions /na.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	narrassiez /na.ʁa.sje/	narrassent /na.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	narre /naʁ/	—	narrons /na.ʁɔ̃/	narrez /na.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• narration
• narratif

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

nārrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of nārrō