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 put away.”
Present Présent
Habits, current states, and actions happening now.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | range | I put away | |
| tu | ranges | you put away | |
| il / elle / on | range | he / she / it puts awayon: we put away / one puts away | |
| nous | rangeons | we put away | |
| vous | rangez | you put away | |
| ils / elles | rangent | they put away |
IN A SENTENCEPresent example
Paul range ses outils dans le garage.
Paul puts away his tools in the garage.
Passé composé
Completed past events, using avoir or être plus a past participle.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | ai rangé | I put away | |
| tu | as rangé | you put away | |
| il / elle / on | a rangé | he / she / it put awayon: we put away / one put away | |
| nous | avons rangé | we put away | |
| vous | avez rangé | you put away | |
| ils / elles | ont rangé | they put away |
IN A SENTENCEPassé composé example
Hier, Paul a rangé ses outils dans le garage.
Yesterday, Paul put away his tools in the garage.
The passé composé uses avoir. The table shows the unmarked participle; agreement with a preceding direct object is outside this reference.
Back to tense navigation ↑Imperfect Imparfait
Past habits, descriptions, and actions in progress.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | rangeais | I used to put away | |
| tu | rangeais | you used to put away | |
| il / elle / on | rangeait | he / she / it used to put awayon: we used to put away / one used to put away | |
| nous | rangions | we used to put away | |
| vous | rangiez | you used to put away | |
| ils / elles | rangeaient | they used to put away |
IN A SENTENCEImperfect example
Autrefois, Paul rangeait ses outils dans le garage.
Back then, Paul used to put away his tools in the garage.
Future Futur simple
Future events and predictions.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | rangerai | I will put away | |
| tu | rangeras | you will put away | |
| il / elle / on | rangera | he / she / it will put awayon: we will put away / one will put away | |
| nous | rangerons | we will put away | |
| vous | rangerez | you will put away | |
| ils / elles | rangeront | they will put away |
IN A SENTENCEFuture example
Plus tard, Paul rangera ses outils dans le garage.
Later, Paul will put away his tools in the garage.
Conditional Conditionnel présent
Hypothetical events and polite requests.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | rangerais | I would put away | |
| tu | rangerais | you would put away | |
| il / elle / on | rangerait | he / she / it would put awayon: we would put away / one would put away | |
| nous | rangerions | we would put away | |
| vous | rangeriez | you would put away | |
| ils / elles | rangeraient | they would put away |
IN A SENTENCEConditional example
Paul rangerait ses outils dans le garage.
Paul would put away his tools in the garage.
Present subjunctive Subjonctif présent
Dependent clauses expressing wishes, necessity, doubt, and certain feelings.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | range | (that) I put away | |
| tu | ranges | (that) you put away | |
| il / elle / on | range | (that) he / she / it puts awayon: (that) we put away / one puts away | |
| nous | rangions | (that) we put away | |
| vous | rangiez | (that) you put away | |
| ils / elles | rangent | (that) they put away |
IN A SENTENCEPresent subjunctive example
Il est possible que Paul range ses outils dans le garage.
It is possible that Paul puts away his tools in the garage.
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 order, to arrange
- to put away, to put aside, to stack away, to stow
- to park (a car)
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