oeuvrer
See also: œuvrer
French
Verb
oeuvrer
- nonstandard spelling of œuvrer
Usage notes
- The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.
Conjugation
Conjugation of oeuvrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | oeuvrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | oeuvrant /œ.vʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | oeuvré /œ.vʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | oeuvre /œvʁ/ |
oeuvres /œvʁ/ |
oeuvre /œvʁ/ |
oeuvrons /œ.vʁɔ̃/ |
oeuvrez /œ.vʁe/ |
oeuvrent /œvʁ/ |
| imperfect | oeuvrais /œ.vʁɛ/ |
oeuvrais /œ.vʁɛ/ |
oeuvrait /œ.vʁɛ/ |
oeuvrions /œ.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
oeuvriez /œ.vʁi.je/ |
oeuvraient /œ.vʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | oeuvrai /œ.vʁe/ |
oeuvras /œ.vʁa/ |
oeuvra /œ.vʁa/ |
oeuvrâmes /œ.vʁam/ |
oeuvrâtes /œ.vʁat/ |
oeuvrèrent /œ.vʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | oeuvrerai /œ.vʁə.ʁe/ |
oeuvreras /œ.vʁə.ʁa/ |
oeuvrera /œ.vʁə.ʁa/ |
oeuvrerons /œ.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
oeuvrerez /œ.vʁə.ʁe/ |
oeuvreront /œ.vʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | oeuvrerais /œ.vʁə.ʁɛ/ |
oeuvrerais /œ.vʁə.ʁɛ/ |
oeuvrerait /œ.vʁə.ʁɛ/ |
oeuvrerions /œ.vʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
oeuvreriez /œ.vʁə.ʁje/ |
oeuvreraient /œ.vʁə.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 | oeuvre /œvʁ/ |
oeuvres /œvʁ/ |
oeuvre /œvʁ/ |
oeuvrions /œ.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
oeuvriez /œ.vʁi.je/ |
oeuvrent /œvʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | oeuvrasse /œ.vʁas/ |
oeuvrasses /œ.vʁas/ |
oeuvrât /œ.vʁa/ |
oeuvrassions /œ.vʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
oeuvrassiez /œ.vʁa.sje/ |
oeuvrassent /œ.vʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | oeuvre /œvʁ/ |
— | oeuvrons /œ.vʁɔ̃/ |
oeuvrez /œ.vʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “oeuvrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.