alléser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.le.ze/

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• Homophones: alésai, alésé, alésée, alésées, aléser, alésés, alésez, alézé, alézée, alézées, alézés, allésai, allésé, allésée, allésées, allésés, allésez

Verb

alléser

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of aléser

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 alléser-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written allèser-, 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.

Conjugation of alléser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alléser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	allésant /a.le.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		allésé /a.le.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	allèse /a.lɛz/	allèses /a.lɛz/	allèse /a.lɛz/	allésons /a.le.zɔ̃/	allésez /a.le.ze/	allèsent /a.lɛz/
	imperfect	allésais /a.le.zɛ/	allésais /a.le.zɛ/	allésait /a.le.zɛ/	allésions /a.le.zjɔ̃/	allésiez /a.le.zje/	allésaient /a.le.zɛ/
	past historic2	allésai /a.le.ze/	allésas /a.le.za/	allésa /a.le.za/	allésâmes /a.le.zam/	allésâtes /a.le.zat/	allésèrent /a.le.zɛʁ/
	future	allèserai or alléserai /a.lɛz.ʁe/	allèseras or alléseras /a.lɛz.ʁa/	allèsera or allésera /a.lɛz.ʁa/	allèserons or alléserons /a.lɛz.ʁɔ̃/	allèserez or alléserez /a.lɛz.ʁe/	allèseront or alléseront /a.lɛz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	allèserais or alléserais /a.lɛz.ʁɛ/	allèserais or alléserais /a.lɛz.ʁɛ/	allèserait or alléserait /a.lɛz.ʁɛ/	allèserions or alléserions /a.lɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.le.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	allèseriez or alléseriez /a.lɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /a.le.zə.ʁje/	allèseraient or alléseraient /a.lɛz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	allèse /a.lɛz/	allèses /a.lɛz/	allèse /a.lɛz/	allésions /a.le.zjɔ̃/	allésiez /a.le.zje/	allèsent /a.lɛz/
	imperfect2	allésasse /a.le.zas/	allésasses /a.le.zas/	allésât /a.le.za/	allésassions /a.le.za.sjɔ̃/	allésassiez /a.le.za.sje/	allésassent /a.le.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	allèse /a.lɛz/	—	allésons /a.le.zɔ̃/	allésez /a.le.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).