tesseller

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.sɛ.le/ ~ /te.se.le/

Verb

tesseller

1. to tessellate

Conjugation

Conjugation of tesseller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tesseller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tessellant /tɛ.sɛ.lɑ̃/ or /te.se.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tessellé /tɛ.sɛ.le/ or /te.se.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tesselle /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	tesselles /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	tesselle /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	tessellons /tɛ.sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /te.se.lɔ̃/	tessellez /tɛ.sɛ.le/ or /te.se.le/	tessellent /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/
	imperfect	tessellais /tɛ.sɛ.lɛ/ or /te.se.lɛ/	tessellais /tɛ.sɛ.lɛ/ or /te.se.lɛ/	tessellait /tɛ.sɛ.lɛ/ or /te.se.lɛ/	tessellions /tɛ.sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /te.se.ljɔ̃/	tesselliez /tɛ.sɛ.lje/ or /te.se.lje/	tessellaient /tɛ.sɛ.lɛ/ or /te.se.lɛ/
	past historic2	tessellai /tɛ.sɛ.le/ or /te.se.le/	tessellas /tɛ.sɛ.la/ or /te.se.la/	tessella /tɛ.sɛ.la/ or /te.se.la/	tessellâmes /tɛ.sɛ.lam/ or /te.se.lam/	tessellâtes /tɛ.sɛ.lat/ or /te.se.lat/	tessellèrent /tɛ.sɛ.lɛʁ/ or /te.se.lɛʁ/
	future	tessellerai /tɛ.sɛl.ʁe/ or /te.sɛl.ʁe/	tesselleras /tɛ.sɛl.ʁa/ or /te.sɛl.ʁa/	tessellera /tɛ.sɛl.ʁa/ or /te.sɛl.ʁa/	tessellerons /tɛ.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ or /te.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	tessellerez /tɛ.sɛl.ʁe/ or /te.sɛl.ʁe/	tesselleront /tɛ.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ or /te.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tessellerais /tɛ.sɛl.ʁɛ/ or /te.sɛl.ʁɛ/	tessellerais /tɛ.sɛl.ʁɛ/ or /te.sɛl.ʁɛ/	tessellerait /tɛ.sɛl.ʁɛ/ or /te.sɛl.ʁɛ/	tessellerions /tɛ.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /te.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	tesselleriez /tɛ.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /te.se.lə.ʁje/	tesselleraient /tɛ.sɛl.ʁɛ/ or /te.sɛl.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	tesselle /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	tesselles /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	tesselle /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	tessellions /tɛ.sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /te.se.ljɔ̃/	tesselliez /tɛ.sɛ.lje/ or /te.se.lje/	tessellent /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/
	imperfect2	tessellasse /tɛ.sɛ.las/ or /te.se.las/	tessellasses /tɛ.sɛ.las/ or /te.se.las/	tessellât /tɛ.sɛ.la/ or /te.se.la/	tessellassions /tɛ.sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /te.se.la.sjɔ̃/	tessellassiez /tɛ.sɛ.la.sje/ or /te.se.la.sje/	tessellassent /tɛ.sɛ.las/ or /te.se.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tesselle /tɛ.sɛl/ or /te.sɛl/	—	tessellons /tɛ.sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /te.se.lɔ̃/	tessellez /tɛ.sɛ.le/ or /te.se.le/	—
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

• tessellation