photographier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje/

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Verb

photographier

1. (photography) to photograph

Conjugation

Conjugation of photographier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	photographier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	photographiant /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		photographié /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	photographie /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	photographies /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	photographie /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	photographions /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɔ̃/	photographiez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje/	photographient /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/
	imperfect	photographiais /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɛ/	photographiais /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɛ/	photographiait /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɛ/	photographiions /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.jɔ̃/	photographiiez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.je/	photographiaient /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɛ/
	past historic2	photographiai /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje/	photographias /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fja/	photographia /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fja/	photographiâmes /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjam/	photographiâtes /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjat/	photographièrent /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɛʁ/
	future	photographierai /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁe/	photographieras /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁa/	photographiera /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁa/	photographierons /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁɔ̃/	photographierez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁe/	photographieront /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	photographierais /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁɛ/	photographierais /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁɛ/	photographierait /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁɛ/	photographierions /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	photographieriez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.ʁje/	photographieraient /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.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	photographie /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	photographies /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	photographie /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	photographiions /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.jɔ̃/	photographiiez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi.je/	photographient /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/
	imperfect2	photographiasse /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjas/	photographiasses /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjas/	photographiât /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fja/	photographiassions /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fja.sjɔ̃/	photographiassiez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fja.sje/	photographiassent /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	photographie /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi/	—	photographions /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fjɔ̃/	photographiez /fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje/	—
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).

Related terms

• photographe
• photographie
• photographique

Further reading

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