pontifier
French
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /pɔ̃.ti.fje/
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Conjugation
    
Conjugation of pontifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pontifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pontifiant /pɔ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pontifié /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | pontifies /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | pontifions /pɔ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ | pontifiez /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ | pontifient /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | 
| imperfect | pontifiais /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ | pontifiais /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ | pontifiait /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ | pontifiions /pɔ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ | pontifiiez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.je/ | pontifiaient /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pontifiai /pɔ̃.ti.fje/ | pontifias /pɔ̃.ti.fja/ | pontifia /pɔ̃.ti.fja/ | pontifiâmes /pɔ̃.ti.fjam/ | pontifiâtes /pɔ̃.ti.fjat/ | pontifièrent /pɔ̃.ti.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | pontifierai /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/ | pontifieras /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/ | pontifiera /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/ | pontifierons /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | pontifierez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/ | pontifieront /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pontifierais /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ | pontifierais /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ | pontifierait /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ | pontifierions /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ | pontifieriez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.ʁje/ | pontifieraient /pɔ̃.ti.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 | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | pontifies /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | pontifiions /pɔ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ | pontifiiez /pɔ̃.ti.fi.je/ | pontifient /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | 
| imperfect2 | pontifiasse /pɔ̃.ti.fjas/ | pontifiasses /pɔ̃.ti.fjas/ | pontifiât /pɔ̃.ti.fja/ | pontifiassions /pɔ̃.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/ | pontifiassiez /pɔ̃.ti.fja.sje/ | pontifiassent /pɔ̃.ti.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pontifie /pɔ̃.ti.fi/ | — | pontifions /pɔ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/ | pontifiez /pɔ̃.ti.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: 
 (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
    
- “pontifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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