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 praise.”
Present Présent
Habits, current states, and actions happening now.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | vante | I praise | |
| tu | vantes | you praise | |
| il / elle / on | vante | he / she / it praiseson: we praise / one praises | |
| nous | vantons | we praise | |
| vous | vantez | you praise | |
| ils / elles | vantent | they praise |
IN A SENTENCEPresent example
Paul vante les qualités de ce vélo.
Paul praises the merits of this bicycle.
Passé composé
Completed past events, using avoir or être plus a past participle.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | ai vanté | I praised | |
| tu | as vanté | you praised | |
| il / elle / on | a vanté | he / she / it praisedon: we praised / one praised | |
| nous | avons vanté | we praised | |
| vous | avez vanté | you praised | |
| ils / elles | ont vanté | they praised |
IN A SENTENCEPassé composé example
Hier, Paul a vanté les qualités de ce vélo.
Yesterday, Paul praised the merits of this bicycle.
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’ | vantais | I used to praise | |
| tu | vantais | you used to praise | |
| il / elle / on | vantait | he / she / it used to praiseon: we used to praise / one used to praise | |
| nous | vantions | we used to praise | |
| vous | vantiez | you used to praise | |
| ils / elles | vantaient | they used to praise |
IN A SENTENCEImperfect example
Autrefois, Paul vantait les qualités de ce vélo.
Back then, Paul used to praise the merits of this bicycle.
Future Futur simple
Future events and predictions.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | vanterai | I will praise | |
| tu | vanteras | you will praise | |
| il / elle / on | vantera | he / she / it will praiseon: we will praise / one will praise | |
| nous | vanterons | we will praise | |
| vous | vanterez | you will praise | |
| ils / elles | vanteront | they will praise |
IN A SENTENCEFuture example
Plus tard, Paul vantera les qualités de ce vélo.
Later, Paul will praise the merits of this bicycle.
Conditional Conditionnel présent
Hypothetical events and polite requests.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | vanterais | I would praise | |
| tu | vanterais | you would praise | |
| il / elle / on | vanterait | he / she / it would praiseon: we would praise / one would praise | |
| nous | vanterions | we would praise | |
| vous | vanteriez | you would praise | |
| ils / elles | vanteraient | they would praise |
IN A SENTENCEConditional example
Paul vanterait les qualités de ce vélo.
Paul would praise the merits of this bicycle.
Present subjunctive Subjonctif présent
Dependent clauses expressing wishes, necessity, doubt, and certain feelings.
| Subject | French | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | vante | (that) I praise | |
| tu | vantes | (that) you praise | |
| il / elle / on | vante | (that) he / she / it praiseson: (that) we praise / one praises | |
| nous | vantions | (that) we praise | |
| vous | vantiez | (that) you praise | |
| ils / elles | vantent | (that) they praise |
IN A SENTENCEPresent subjunctive example
Il est possible que Paul vante les qualités de ce vélo.
It is possible that Paul praises the merits of this bicycle.
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 praise, to vaunt
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