Conjugations
All six tenses and their examples are shown below. Use the links above to jump to a tense. English translations use the meaning “to injure.”
Present Présent
Habits, current states, and actions happening now.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | blesse | I injure | |
| tu | blesses | you injure | |
| il / elle / on | blesse | he / she / it injureson: we injure / one injures | |
| nous | blessons | we injure | |
| vous | blessez | you injure | |
| ils / elles | blessent | they injure |
IN A SENTENCEPresent example
Ce geste blesse le joueur à l'épaule.
This movement injures the player in the shoulder.
Passé composé
Completed past events, using avoir or être plus a past participle.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | ai blessé | I injured | |
| tu | as blessé | you injured | |
| il / elle / on | a blessé | he / she / it injuredon: we injured / one injured | |
| nous | avons blessé | we injured | |
| vous | avez blessé | you injured | |
| ils / elles | ont blessé | they injured |
IN A SENTENCEPassé composé example
Hier, ce geste a blessé le joueur à l'épaule.
Yesterday, this movement injured the player in the shoulder.
The passé composé uses avoir. The table shows the unmarked participle; agreement with a preceding direct object is outside this reference.
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Past habits, descriptions, and actions in progress.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | blessais | I used to injure | |
| tu | blessais | you used to injure | |
| il / elle / on | blessait | he / she / it used to injureon: we used to injure / one used to injure | |
| nous | blessions | we used to injure | |
| vous | blessiez | you used to injure | |
| ils / elles | blessaient | they used to injure |
IN A SENTENCEImperfect example
Autrefois, ce geste blessait le joueur à l'épaule.
Back then, this movement used to injure the player in the shoulder.
Future Futur simple
Future events and predictions.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | blesserai | I will injure | |
| tu | blesseras | you will injure | |
| il / elle / on | blessera | he / she / it will injureon: we will injure / one will injure | |
| nous | blesserons | we will injure | |
| vous | blesserez | you will injure | |
| ils / elles | blesseront | they will injure |
IN A SENTENCEFuture example
Plus tard, ce geste blessera le joueur à l'épaule.
Later, this movement will injure the player in the shoulder.
Conditional Conditionnel présent
Hypothetical events and polite requests.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | blesserais | I would injure | |
| tu | blesserais | you would injure | |
| il / elle / on | blesserait | he / she / it would injureon: we would injure / one would injure | |
| nous | blesserions | we would injure | |
| vous | blesseriez | you would injure | |
| ils / elles | blesseraient | they would injure |
IN A SENTENCEConditional example
Ce geste blesserait le joueur à l'épaule.
This movement would injure the player in the shoulder.
Present subjunctive Subjonctif présent
Dependent clauses expressing wishes, necessity, doubt, and certain feelings.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | blesse | (that) I injure | |
| tu | blesses | (that) you injure | |
| il / elle / on | blesse | (that) he / she / it injureson: (that) we injure / one injures | |
| nous | blessions | (that) we injure | |
| vous | blessiez | (that) you injure | |
| ils / elles | blessent | (that) they injure |
IN A SENTENCEPresent subjunctive example
Il est possible que ce geste blesse le joueur à l'épaule.
It is possible that this movement injures the player in the shoulder.
French forms omit the subject. Use j’ before a vowel sound. Vous is polite singular or plural “you”; on often means “we,” or the general “one.” English wording depends on the context: passé composé can also use “have,” and the imperfect can describe an ongoing action. Subjunctive translations here follow “it is possible that.”
Meaning & usage
- to wound, to injure
- to hurt one's feelings, to offend
English glosses are a starting point. The meaning of a verb can change with context, a preposition, or se. Read the full dictionary entry ↗
Meanings and simple conjugation forms adapted from English Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org / Wiktextract. Passé composé forms combine the source auxiliary and past participle. Frequency scores from wordfreq 3.1.1 by Robyn Speer and contributors. Adapted data is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Entry source · Sources, download & limitations