ascendre

French

Alternative forms

• ascender

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ascendre, borrowed from Latin ascendere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃dʁ/

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Verb

ascendre

1. (rare, archaic) to ascend

   Synonym: monter

   Antonym: descendre

Conjugation

Conjugation of ascendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ascendre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ascendant /a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ascendu /a.sɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ascends /a.sɑ̃/	ascends /a.sɑ̃/	ascend /a.sɑ̃/	ascendons /a.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/	ascendez /a.sɑ̃.de/	ascendent /a.sɑ̃d/
	imperfect	ascendais /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/	ascendais /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/	ascendait /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/	ascendions /a.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	ascendiez /a.sɑ̃.dje/	ascendaient /a.sɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	ascendis /a.sɑ̃.di/	ascendis /a.sɑ̃.di/	ascendit /a.sɑ̃.di/	ascendîmes /a.sɑ̃.dim/	ascendîtes /a.sɑ̃.dit/	ascendirent /a.sɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	ascendrai /a.sɑ̃.dʁe/	ascendras /a.sɑ̃.dʁa/	ascendra /a.sɑ̃.dʁa/	ascendrons /a.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	ascendrez /a.sɑ̃.dʁe/	ascendront /a.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ascendrais /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	ascendrais /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	ascendrait /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	ascendrions /a.sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	ascendriez /a.sɑ̃.dʁi.je/	ascendraient /a.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	ascende /a.sɑ̃d/	ascendes /a.sɑ̃d/	ascende /a.sɑ̃d/	ascendions /a.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	ascendiez /a.sɑ̃.dje/	ascendent /a.sɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	ascendisse /a.sɑ̃.dis/	ascendisses /a.sɑ̃.dis/	ascendît /a.sɑ̃.di/	ascendissions /a.sɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	ascendissiez /a.sɑ̃.di.sje/	ascendissent /a.sɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ascends /a.sɑ̃/	—	ascendons /a.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/	ascendez /a.sɑ̃.de/	—
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

• ascension

Further reading

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