translittérer

French

Alternative forms

translitérer

Pronunciation

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Verb

translittérer

to transliterate

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written translittérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written translittèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of translittérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	translittérer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	translittérant /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		translittéré /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	translittère /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	translittères /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	translittère /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	translittérons /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɔ̃/	translittérez /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁe/	translittèrent /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/
	imperfect	translittérais /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɛ/	translittérais /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɛ/	translittérait /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɛ/	translittérions /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁjɔ̃/	translittériez /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁje/	translittéraient /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɛ/
	past historic²	translittérai /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁe/	translittéras /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁa/	translittéra /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁa/	translittérâmes /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁam/	translittérâtes /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁat/	translittérèrent /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɛʁ/
	future	translittèrerai or translittérerai /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁe/	translittèreras or translittéreras /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁa/	translittèrera or translittérera /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁa/	translittèrerons or translittérerons /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	translittèrerez or translittérerez /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁe/	translittèreront or translittéreront /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	translittèrerais or translittérerais /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	translittèrerais or translittérerais /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	translittèrerait or translittérerait /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	translittèrerions or translittérerions /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	translittèreriez or translittéreriez /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁə.ʁje/	translittèreraient or translittéreraient /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.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	translittère /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	translittères /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	translittère /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	translittérions /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁjɔ̃/	translittériez /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁje/	translittèrent /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	translittérasse /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁas/	translittérasses /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁas/	translittérât /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁa/	translittérassions /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	translittérassiez /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁa.sje/	translittérassent /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	translittère /tʁɑ̃.sli.tɛʁ/	—	translittérons /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.ʁɔ̃/	translittérez /tʁɑ̃.sli.te.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).