Léser Definition
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le.ze/
Verb
léser
- to wrong; to do wrong by (someone)
Conjugation
- This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’.
- One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written léser-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written lèser-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | léser | avoir or être lésé | |||||
| gerund | en lésant | Use the gerund of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | lésant | ||||||
| past participle | lésé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | lèse | lèses | lèse | lésons | lésez | lèsent |
| imperfect | lésais | lésais | lésait | lésions | lésiez | lésaient | |
| past historic1 | lésai | lésas | lésa | lésâmes | lésâtes | lésèrent | |
| future | lèserai or léserai | lèseras or léseras | lèsera or lésera | lèserons or léserons | lèserez or léserez | lèseront or léseront | |
| conditional | lèserais or léserais | lèserais or léserais | lèserait or léserait | lèserions or léserions | lèseriez or léseriez | lèseraient or léseraient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses | present | lèse | lèses | lèse | lésions | lésiez | lèsent |
| imperfect1 | lésasse | lésasses | lésât | lésassions | lésassiez | lésassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | lèse | — | lésons | lésez | — | ||
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