navetter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

navetter

1. to commute

Conjugation

Conjugation of navetter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	navetter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	navettant /na.vɛ.tɑ̃/ or /na.ve.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		navetté /na.vɛ.te/ or /na.ve.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	navette /na.vɛt/	navettes /na.vɛt/	navette /na.vɛt/	navettons /na.vɛ.tɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tɔ̃/	navettez /na.vɛ.te/ or /na.ve.te/	navettent /na.vɛt/
	imperfect	navettais /na.vɛ.tɛ/ or /na.ve.tɛ/	navettais /na.vɛ.tɛ/ or /na.ve.tɛ/	navettait /na.vɛ.tɛ/ or /na.ve.tɛ/	navettions /na.vɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tjɔ̃/	navettiez /na.vɛ.tje/ or /na.ve.tje/	navettaient /na.vɛ.tɛ/ or /na.ve.tɛ/
	past historic2	navettai /na.vɛ.te/ or /na.ve.te/	navettas /na.vɛ.ta/ or /na.ve.ta/	navetta /na.vɛ.ta/ or /na.ve.ta/	navettâmes /na.vɛ.tam/ or /na.ve.tam/	navettâtes /na.vɛ.tat/ or /na.ve.tat/	navettèrent /na.vɛ.tɛʁ/ or /na.ve.tɛʁ/
	future	navetterai /na.vɛ.tʁe/ or /na.ve.tʁe/	navetteras /na.vɛ.tʁa/ or /na.ve.tʁa/	navettera /na.vɛ.tʁa/ or /na.ve.tʁa/	navetterons /na.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tʁɔ̃/	navetterez /na.vɛ.tʁe/ or /na.ve.tʁe/	navetteront /na.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	navetterais /na.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /na.ve.tʁɛ/	navetterais /na.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /na.ve.tʁɛ/	navetterait /na.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /na.ve.tʁɛ/	navetterions /na.vɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	navetteriez /na.vɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /na.ve.tə.ʁje/	navetteraient /na.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /na.ve.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	navette /na.vɛt/	navettes /na.vɛt/	navette /na.vɛt/	navettions /na.vɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tjɔ̃/	navettiez /na.vɛ.tje/ or /na.ve.tje/	navettent /na.vɛt/
	imperfect2	navettasse /na.vɛ.tas/ or /na.ve.tas/	navettasses /na.vɛ.tas/ or /na.ve.tas/	navettât /na.vɛ.ta/ or /na.ve.ta/	navettassions /na.vɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /na.ve.ta.sjɔ̃/	navettassiez /na.vɛ.ta.sje/ or /na.ve.ta.sje/	navettassent /na.vɛ.tas/ or /na.ve.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	navette /na.vɛt/	—	navettons /na.vɛ.tɔ̃/ or /na.ve.tɔ̃/	navettez /na.vɛ.te/ or /na.ve.te/	—
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

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