vaguer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vagor, vagārī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.ɡe/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of vaguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | vaguant /va.ɡɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | vagué /va.ɡe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | vaguer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | vaguant /va.ɡɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | vague /vaɡ/ |
vagues /vaɡ/ |
vague /vaɡ/ |
vaguons /va.ɡɔ̃/ |
vaguez /va.ɡe/ |
vaguent /vaɡ/ |
| imperfect | vaguais /va.ɡɛ/ |
vaguais /va.ɡɛ/ |
vaguait /va.ɡɛ/ |
vaguions /va.ɡjɔ̃/ |
vaguiez /va.ɡje/ |
vaguaient /va.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vaguai /va.ɡe/ |
vaguas /va.ɡa/ |
vagua /va.ɡa/ |
vaguâmes /va.ɡam/ |
vaguâtes /va.ɡat/ |
vaguèrent /va.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | vaguerai /va.ɡʁe/ |
vagueras /va.ɡʁa/ |
vaguera /va.ɡʁa/ |
vaguerons /va.ɡʁɔ̃/ |
vaguerez /va.ɡʁe/ |
vagueront /va.ɡʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vaguerais /va.ɡʁɛ/ |
vaguerais /va.ɡʁɛ/ |
vaguerait /va.ɡʁɛ/ |
vaguerions /va.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vagueriez /va.ɡə.ʁje/ |
vagueraient /va.ɡʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | vague /vaɡ/ |
vagues /vaɡ/ |
vague /vaɡ/ |
vaguions /va.ɡjɔ̃/ |
vaguiez /va.ɡje/ |
vaguent /vaɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | vaguasse /va.ɡas/ |
vaguasses /va.ɡas/ |
vaguât /va.ɡa/ |
vaguassions /va.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
vaguassiez /va.ɡa.sje/ |
vaguassent /va.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vague /vaɡ/ |
— | vaguons /va.ɡɔ̃/ |
vaguez /va.ɡe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “vaguer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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