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 deprive.”
Present Présent
Habits, current states, and actions happening now.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | prive | I deprive | |
| tu | prives | you deprive | |
| il / elle / on | prive | he / she / it depriveson: we deprive / one deprives | |
| nous | privons | we deprive | |
| vous | privez | you deprive | |
| ils / elles | privent | they deprive |
IN A SENTENCEPresent example
La panne prive le quartier d'électricité.
The power cut deprives the neighbourhood of electricity.
Passé composé
Completed past events, using avoir or être plus a past participle.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | ai privé | I deprived | |
| tu | as privé | you deprived | |
| il / elle / on | a privé | he / she / it deprivedon: we deprived / one deprived | |
| nous | avons privé | we deprived | |
| vous | avez privé | you deprived | |
| ils / elles | ont privé | they deprived |
IN A SENTENCEPassé composé example
Hier, la panne a privé le quartier d'électricité.
Yesterday, the power cut deprived the neighbourhood of electricity.
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’ | privais | I used to deprive | |
| tu | privais | you used to deprive | |
| il / elle / on | privait | he / she / it used to depriveon: we used to deprive / one used to deprive | |
| nous | privions | we used to deprive | |
| vous | priviez | you used to deprive | |
| ils / elles | privaient | they used to deprive |
IN A SENTENCEImperfect example
Autrefois, la panne privait le quartier d'électricité.
Back then, the power cut used to deprive the neighbourhood of electricity.
Future Futur simple
Future events and predictions.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | priverai | I will deprive | |
| tu | priveras | you will deprive | |
| il / elle / on | privera | he / she / it will depriveon: we will deprive / one will deprive | |
| nous | priverons | we will deprive | |
| vous | priverez | you will deprive | |
| ils / elles | priveront | they will deprive |
IN A SENTENCEFuture example
Plus tard, la panne privera le quartier d'électricité.
Later, the power cut will deprive the neighbourhood of electricity.
Conditional Conditionnel présent
Hypothetical events and polite requests.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | priverais | I would deprive | |
| tu | priverais | you would deprive | |
| il / elle / on | priverait | he / she / it would depriveon: we would deprive / one would deprive | |
| nous | priverions | we would deprive | |
| vous | priveriez | you would deprive | |
| ils / elles | priveraient | they would deprive |
IN A SENTENCEConditional example
La panne priverait le quartier d'électricité.
The power cut would deprive the neighbourhood of electricity.
Present subjunctive Subjonctif présent
Dependent clauses expressing wishes, necessity, doubt, and certain feelings.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | prive | (that) I deprive | |
| tu | prives | (that) you deprive | |
| il / elle / on | prive | (that) he / she / it depriveson: (that) we deprive / one deprives | |
| nous | privions | (that) we deprive | |
| vous | priviez | (that) you deprive | |
| ils / elles | privent | (that) they deprive |
IN A SENTENCEPresent subjunctive example
Il est possible que la panne prive le quartier d'électricité.
It is possible that the power cut deprives the neighbourhood of electricity.
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 deprive
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