appréhender
See also: apprehender
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin apprehendere. Doublet of apprendre, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.de/
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Verb
appréhender
- to dread, apprehend
- J'appréhende beaucoup les évènements à venir. ― I strongly apprehend the events to come.
- to catch, apprehend
- Le malfaiteur a été appréhendé en douceur. ― The criminal was smoothly apprehended.
Conjugation
Conjugation of appréhender (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | appréhender | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | appréhendant /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | appréhendé /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | appréhende /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
appréhendes /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
appréhende /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
appréhendons /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
appréhendez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.de/ |
appréhendent /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | appréhendais /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ/ |
appréhendais /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ/ |
appréhendait /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ/ |
appréhendions /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
appréhendiez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dje/ |
appréhendaient /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | appréhendai /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.de/ |
appréhendas /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.da/ |
appréhenda /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.da/ |
appréhendâmes /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dam/ |
appréhendâtes /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dat/ |
appréhendèrent /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | appréhenderai /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁe/ |
appréhenderas /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁa/ |
appréhendera /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁa/ |
appréhenderons /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
appréhenderez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁe/ |
appréhenderont /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | appréhenderais /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
appréhenderais /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
appréhenderait /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
appréhenderions /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
appréhenderiez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.də.ʁje/ |
appréhenderaient /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | appréhende /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
appréhendes /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
appréhende /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
appréhendions /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
appréhendiez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dje/ |
appréhendent /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | appréhendasse /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.das/ |
appréhendasses /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.das/ |
appréhendât /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.da/ |
appréhendassions /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/ |
appréhendassiez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.da.sje/ |
appréhendassent /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | appréhende /a.pʁe.ɑ̃d/ |
— | appréhendons /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
appréhendez /a.pʁe.ɑ̃.de/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “appréhender”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.