secréter
French
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 secréter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written secrèter-, 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 secréter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | secrétant /sə.kʁe.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | secrété /sə.kʁe.te/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | secréter | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | secrétant /sə.kʁe.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrètes /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrétons /sə.kʁe.tɔ̃/ |
secrétez /sə.kʁe.te/ |
secrètent /sə.kʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | secrétais /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
secrétais /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
secrétait /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ |
secrétions /sə.kʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
secrétiez /sə.kʁe.tje/ |
secrétaient /sə.kʁe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | secrétai /sə.kʁe.te/ |
secrétas /sə.kʁe.ta/ |
secréta /sə.kʁe.ta/ |
secrétâmes /sə.kʁe.tam/ |
secrétâtes /sə.kʁe.tat/ |
secrétèrent /sə.kʁe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | secrèterai or secréterai /sə.kʁɛ.tʁe/ |
secrèteras or secréteras /sə.kʁɛ.tʁa/ |
secrètera or secrétera /sə.kʁɛ.tʁa/ |
secrèterons or secréterons /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
secrèterez or secréterez /sə.kʁɛ.tʁe/ |
secrèteront or secréteront /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | secrèterais or secréterais /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
secrèterais or secréterais /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
secrèterait or secréterait /sə.kʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
secrèterions or secréterions /sə.kʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secrèteriez or secréteriez /sə.kʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
secrèteraient or secréteraient /sə.kʁɛ.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 | secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrètes /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
secrétions /sə.kʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
secrétiez /sə.kʁe.tje/ |
secrètent /sə.kʁɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | secrétasse /sə.kʁe.tas/ |
secrétasses /sə.kʁe.tas/ |
secrétât /sə.kʁe.ta/ |
secrétassions /sə.kʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
secrétassiez /sə.kʁe.ta.sje/ |
secrétassent /sə.kʁe.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | secrète /sə.kʁɛt/ |
— | secrétons /sə.kʁe.tɔ̃/ |
secrétez /sə.kʁe.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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