agrafer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡʁa.fe/

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Verb

agrafer

1. to staple (secure with a staple)

Conjugation

Conjugation of agrafer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agrafer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agrafant /a.ɡʁa.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agrafé /a.ɡʁa.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agrafe /a.ɡʁaf/	agrafes /a.ɡʁaf/	agrafe /a.ɡʁaf/	agrafons /a.ɡʁa.fɔ̃/	agrafez /a.ɡʁa.fe/	agrafent /a.ɡʁaf/
	imperfect	agrafais /a.ɡʁa.fɛ/	agrafais /a.ɡʁa.fɛ/	agrafait /a.ɡʁa.fɛ/	agrafions /a.ɡʁa.fjɔ̃/	agrafiez /a.ɡʁa.fje/	agrafaient /a.ɡʁa.fɛ/
	past historic2	agrafai /a.ɡʁa.fe/	agrafas /a.ɡʁa.fa/	agrafa /a.ɡʁa.fa/	agrafâmes /a.ɡʁa.fam/	agrafâtes /a.ɡʁa.fat/	agrafèrent /a.ɡʁa.fɛʁ/
	future	agraferai /a.ɡʁa.fʁe/	agraferas /a.ɡʁa.fʁa/	agrafera /a.ɡʁa.fʁa/	agraferons /a.ɡʁa.fʁɔ̃/	agraferez /a.ɡʁa.fʁe/	agraferont /a.ɡʁa.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agraferais /a.ɡʁa.fʁɛ/	agraferais /a.ɡʁa.fʁɛ/	agraferait /a.ɡʁa.fʁɛ/	agraferions /a.ɡʁa.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	agraferiez /a.ɡʁa.fə.ʁje/	agraferaient /a.ɡʁa.fʁɛ/
(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	agrafe /a.ɡʁaf/	agrafes /a.ɡʁaf/	agrafe /a.ɡʁaf/	agrafions /a.ɡʁa.fjɔ̃/	agrafiez /a.ɡʁa.fje/	agrafent /a.ɡʁaf/
	imperfect2	agrafasse /a.ɡʁa.fas/	agrafasses /a.ɡʁa.fas/	agrafât /a.ɡʁa.fa/	agrafassions /a.ɡʁa.fa.sjɔ̃/	agrafassiez /a.ɡʁa.fa.sje/	agrafassent /a.ɡʁa.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agrafe /a.ɡʁaf/	—	agrafons /a.ɡʁa.fɔ̃/	agrafez /a.ɡʁa.fe/	—
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).

Related terms

• agrafe
• agrafeuse

Further reading

• “agrafer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.