expédier

French

Etymology

From expédient with -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spe.dje/

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Verb

expédier

1. to post, to send, to ship
2. to expedite
3. to deal with quickly, to get rid of

Conjugation

Conjugation of expédier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	expédier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	expédiant /ɛk.spe.djɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		expédié /ɛk.spe.dje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	expédie /ɛk.spe.di/	expédies /ɛk.spe.di/	expédie /ɛk.spe.di/	expédions /ɛk.spe.djɔ̃/	expédiez /ɛk.spe.dje/	expédient /ɛk.spe.di/
	imperfect	expédiais /ɛk.spe.djɛ/	expédiais /ɛk.spe.djɛ/	expédiait /ɛk.spe.djɛ/	expédiions /ɛk.spe.di.jɔ̃/	expédiiez /ɛk.spe.di.je/	expédiaient /ɛk.spe.djɛ/
	past historic2	expédiai /ɛk.spe.dje/	expédias /ɛk.spe.dja/	expédia /ɛk.spe.dja/	expédiâmes /ɛk.spe.djam/	expédiâtes /ɛk.spe.djat/	expédièrent /ɛk.spe.djɛʁ/
	future	expédierai /ɛk.spe.di.ʁe/	expédieras /ɛk.spe.di.ʁa/	expédiera /ɛk.spe.di.ʁa/	expédierons /ɛk.spe.di.ʁɔ̃/	expédierez /ɛk.spe.di.ʁe/	expédieront /ɛk.spe.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	expédierais /ɛk.spe.di.ʁɛ/	expédierais /ɛk.spe.di.ʁɛ/	expédierait /ɛk.spe.di.ʁɛ/	expédierions /ɛk.spe.di.ʁjɔ̃/	expédieriez /ɛk.spe.di.ʁje/	expédieraient /ɛk.spe.di.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	expédie /ɛk.spe.di/	expédies /ɛk.spe.di/	expédie /ɛk.spe.di/	expédiions /ɛk.spe.di.jɔ̃/	expédiiez /ɛk.spe.di.je/	expédient /ɛk.spe.di/
	imperfect2	expédiasse /ɛk.spe.djas/	expédiasses /ɛk.spe.djas/	expédiât /ɛk.spe.dja/	expédiassions /ɛk.spe.dja.sjɔ̃/	expédiassiez /ɛk.spe.dja.sje/	expédiassent /ɛk.spe.djas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	expédie /ɛk.spe.di/	—	expédions /ɛk.spe.djɔ̃/	expédiez /ɛk.spe.dje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• expéditeur

Related terms

• expédition

Further reading

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