nuancer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɥɑ̃.se/
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Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of nuancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | nuancer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | nuançant /nɥɑ̃.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | nuancé /nɥɑ̃.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | nuance /nɥɑ̃s/ |
nuances /nɥɑ̃s/ |
nuance /nɥɑ̃s/ |
nuançons /nɥɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
nuancez /nɥɑ̃.se/ |
nuancent /nɥɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect | nuançais /nɥɑ̃.sɛ/ |
nuançais /nɥɑ̃.sɛ/ |
nuançait /nɥɑ̃.sɛ/ |
nuancions /nɥɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
nuanciez /nɥɑ̃.sje/ |
nuançaient /nɥɑ̃.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | nuançai /nɥɑ̃.se/ |
nuanças /nɥɑ̃.sa/ |
nuança /nɥɑ̃.sa/ |
nuançâmes /nɥɑ̃.sam/ |
nuançâtes /nɥɑ̃.sat/ |
nuancèrent /nɥɑ̃.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | nuancerai /nɥɑ̃.sʁe/ |
nuanceras /nɥɑ̃.sʁa/ |
nuancera /nɥɑ̃.sʁa/ |
nuancerons /nɥɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ |
nuancerez /nɥɑ̃.sʁe/ |
nuanceront /nɥɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | nuancerais /nɥɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
nuancerais /nɥɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
nuancerait /nɥɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
nuancerions /nɥɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
nuanceriez /nɥɑ̃.sə.ʁje/ |
nuanceraient /nɥɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | nuance /nɥɑ̃s/ |
nuances /nɥɑ̃s/ |
nuance /nɥɑ̃s/ |
nuancions /nɥɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
nuanciez /nɥɑ̃.sje/ |
nuancent /nɥɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect2 | nuançasse /nɥɑ̃.sas/ |
nuançasses /nɥɑ̃.sas/ |
nuançât /nɥɑ̃.sa/ |
nuançassions /nɥɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
nuançassiez /nɥɑ̃.sa.sje/ |
nuançassent /nɥɑ̃.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | nuance /nɥɑ̃s/ |
— | nuançons /nɥɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
nuancez /nɥɑ̃.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants
- → German: nuancieren
Further reading
- “nuancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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