avérer

French

Etymology

From Old French averer, from Early Medieval Latin advērāre, derived from Latin vērus (“true”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.ve.ʁe/
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Verb

avérer

  1. (transitive) to uncover, to reveal
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to prove (to be); to transpire
    Il s’est avéré plus compliqué qu’on avait imaginé.
    It proved more complicated than we'd imagined.
    Il s’avère qu’il s’est suicidé.
    It turns out he committed suicide.

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 avérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written avèrer-, 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 avérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple avérer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple avérant
/a.ve.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle avéré
/a.ve.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present avère
/a.vɛʁ/		 avères
/a.vɛʁ/		 avère
/a.vɛʁ/		 avérons
/a.ve.ʁɔ̃/		 avérez
/a.ve.ʁe/		 avèrent
/a.vɛʁ/
imperfect avérais
/a.ve.ʁɛ/		 avérais
/a.ve.ʁɛ/		 avérait
/a.ve.ʁɛ/		 avérions
/a.ve.ʁjɔ̃/		 avériez
/a.ve.ʁje/		 avéraient
/a.ve.ʁɛ/
past historic2 avérai
/a.ve.ʁe/		 avéras
/a.ve.ʁa/		 avéra
/a.ve.ʁa/		 avérâmes
/a.ve.ʁam/		 avérâtes
/a.ve.ʁat/		 avérèrent
/a.ve.ʁɛʁ/
future avèrerai or avérerai
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁe/		 avèreras or avéreras
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁa/		 avèrera or avérera
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁa/		 avèrerons or avérerons
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/		 avèrerez or avérerez
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁe/		 avèreront or avéreront
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional avèrerais or avérerais
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 avèrerais or avérerais
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 avèrerait or avérerait
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 avèrerions or avérerions
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/		 avèreriez or avéreriez
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.ve.ʁə.ʁje/		 avèreraient or avéreraient
/a.vɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ve.ʁə.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 avère
/a.vɛʁ/		 avères
/a.vɛʁ/		 avère
/a.vɛʁ/		 avérions
/a.ve.ʁjɔ̃/		 avériez
/a.ve.ʁje/		 avèrent
/a.vɛʁ/
imperfect2 avérasse
/a.ve.ʁas/		 avérasses
/a.ve.ʁas/		 avérât
/a.ve.ʁa/		 avérassions
/a.ve.ʁa.sjɔ̃/		 avérassiez
/a.ve.ʁa.sje/		 avérassent
/a.ve.ʁas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — avère
/a.vɛʁ/		 — avérons
/a.ve.ʁɔ̃/		 avérez
/a.ve.ʁe/		 —
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).

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