confluer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfluō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

confluer

1. (of a river) to join, flow into (another river)
2. (figuratively) to flood together, to converge

Conjugation

Conjugation of confluer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	confluer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	confluant /kɔ̃.fly.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		conflué /kɔ̃.fly.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conflue /kɔ̃.fly/	conflues /kɔ̃.fly/	conflue /kɔ̃.fly/	confluons /kɔ̃.fly.ɔ̃/	confluez /kɔ̃.fly.e/	confluent /kɔ̃.fly/
	imperfect	confluais /kɔ̃.fly.ɛ/	confluais /kɔ̃.fly.ɛ/	confluait /kɔ̃.fly.ɛ/	confluions /kɔ̃.fly.jɔ̃/	confluiez /kɔ̃.fly.je/	confluaient /kɔ̃.fly.ɛ/
	past historic2	confluai /kɔ̃.fly.e/	confluas /kɔ̃.fly.a/	conflua /kɔ̃.fly.a/	confluâmes /kɔ̃.fly.am/	confluâtes /kɔ̃.fly.at/	confluèrent /kɔ̃.fly.ɛʁ/
	future	confluerai /kɔ̃.fly.ʁe/	conflueras /kɔ̃.fly.ʁa/	confluera /kɔ̃.fly.ʁa/	confluerons /kɔ̃.fly.ʁɔ̃/	confluerez /kɔ̃.fly.ʁe/	conflueront /kɔ̃.fly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	confluerais /kɔ̃.fly.ʁɛ/	confluerais /kɔ̃.fly.ʁɛ/	confluerait /kɔ̃.fly.ʁɛ/	confluerions /kɔ̃.fly.ʁjɔ̃/	conflueriez /kɔ̃.fly.ʁje/	conflueraient /kɔ̃.fly.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	conflue /kɔ̃.fly/	conflues /kɔ̃.fly/	conflue /kɔ̃.fly/	confluions /kɔ̃.fly.jɔ̃/	confluiez /kɔ̃.fly.je/	confluent /kɔ̃.fly/
	imperfect2	confluasse /kɔ̃.fly.as/	confluasses /kɔ̃.fly.as/	confluât /kɔ̃.fly.a/	confluassions /kɔ̃.fly.a.sjɔ̃/	confluassiez /kɔ̃.fly.a.sje/	confluassent /kɔ̃.fly.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conflue /kɔ̃.fly/	—	confluons /kɔ̃.fly.ɔ̃/	confluez /kɔ̃.fly.e/	—
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

• Coblence, Coblentz (obsolete) (= German: Coblenz (obsolete), Koblenz)
• confluence
• confluent

Further reading

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