cadrer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadrāre. Doublet of carrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.dʁe/ ~ /kɑ.dʁe/

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Verb

cadrer

1. to fit (go well together)
2. (photography) to frame (put into the field of vision)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cadrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cadrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cadrant /ka.dʁɑ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cadré /ka.dʁe/ or /kɑ.dʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cadre /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	cadres /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	cadre /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	cadrons /ka.dʁɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁɔ̃/	cadrez /ka.dʁe/ or /kɑ.dʁe/	cadrent /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/
	imperfect	cadrais /ka.dʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁɛ/	cadrais /ka.dʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁɛ/	cadrait /ka.dʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁɛ/	cadrions /ka.dʁi.jɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁi.jɔ̃/	cadriez /ka.dʁi.je/ or /kɑ.dʁi.je/	cadraient /ka.dʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁɛ/
	past historic2	cadrai /ka.dʁe/ or /kɑ.dʁe/	cadras /ka.dʁa/ or /kɑ.dʁa/	cadra /ka.dʁa/ or /kɑ.dʁa/	cadrâmes /ka.dʁam/ or /kɑ.dʁam/	cadrâtes /ka.dʁat/ or /kɑ.dʁat/	cadrèrent /ka.dʁɛʁ/ or /kɑ.dʁɛʁ/
	future	cadrerai /ka.dʁə.ʁe/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁe/	cadreras /ka.dʁə.ʁa/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁa/	cadrera /ka.dʁə.ʁa/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁa/	cadrerons /ka.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cadrerez /ka.dʁə.ʁe/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁe/	cadreront /ka.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cadrerais /ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cadrerais /ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cadrerait /ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cadrerions /ka.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cadreriez /ka.dʁə.ʁje/ or /kɑ.dʁə.ʁje/	cadreraient /ka.dʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɑ.dʁə.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	cadre /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	cadres /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	cadre /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	cadrions /ka.dʁi.jɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁi.jɔ̃/	cadriez /ka.dʁi.je/ or /kɑ.dʁi.je/	cadrent /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/
	imperfect2	cadrasse /ka.dʁas/ or /kɑ.dʁas/	cadrasses /ka.dʁas/ or /kɑ.dʁas/	cadrât /ka.dʁa/ or /kɑ.dʁa/	cadrassions /ka.dʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁa.sjɔ̃/	cadrassiez /ka.dʁa.sje/ or /kɑ.dʁa.sje/	cadrassent /ka.dʁas/ or /kɑ.dʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cadre /kadʁ/ or /kɑdʁ/	—	cadrons /ka.dʁɔ̃/ or /kɑ.dʁɔ̃/	cadrez /ka.dʁe/ or /kɑ.dʁe/	—
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

• cadrage
• cadre

Further reading

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