ascendre
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old French ascendre, borrowed from Latin ascendere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.sɑ̃dʁ/
Audio: (file)
Verb
ascendre
Conjugation
Conjugation of ascendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ascendre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ascendant /a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ascendu /a.sɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ascends /a.sɑ̃/ |
ascends /a.sɑ̃/ |
ascend /a.sɑ̃/ |
ascendons /a.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
ascendez /a.sɑ̃.de/ |
ascendent /a.sɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | ascendais /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
ascendais /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
ascendait /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
ascendions /a.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
ascendiez /a.sɑ̃.dje/ |
ascendaient /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ascendis /a.sɑ̃.di/ |
ascendis /a.sɑ̃.di/ |
ascendit /a.sɑ̃.di/ |
ascendîmes /a.sɑ̃.dim/ |
ascendîtes /a.sɑ̃.dit/ |
ascendirent /a.sɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | ascendrai /a.sɑ̃.dʁe/ |
ascendras /a.sɑ̃.dʁa/ |
ascendra /a.sɑ̃.dʁa/ |
ascendrons /a.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
ascendrez /a.sɑ̃.dʁe/ |
ascendront /a.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ascendrais /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
ascendrais /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
ascendrait /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
ascendrions /a.sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
ascendriez /a.sɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
ascendraient /a.sɑ̃.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 | ascende /a.sɑ̃d/ |
ascendes /a.sɑ̃d/ |
ascende /a.sɑ̃d/ |
ascendions /a.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
ascendiez /a.sɑ̃.dje/ |
ascendent /a.sɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | ascendisse /a.sɑ̃.dis/ |
ascendisses /a.sɑ̃.dis/ |
ascendît /a.sɑ̃.di/ |
ascendissions /a.sɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
ascendissiez /a.sɑ̃.di.sje/ |
ascendissent /a.sɑ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ascends /a.sɑ̃/ |
— | ascendons /a.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
ascendez /a.sɑ̃.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
- “ascendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.