involuer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥe/

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Verb

involuer

1. (biology) to regress

Conjugation

Conjugation of involuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	involuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	involuant /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		involué /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	involue /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	involues /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	involue /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	involuons /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɔ̃/	involuez /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥe/	involuent /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/
	imperfect	involuais /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɛ/	involuais /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɛ/	involuait /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɛ/	involuions /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.jɔ̃/	involuiez /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.je/	involuaient /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɛ/
	past historic2	involuai /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥe/	involuas /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥa/	involua /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥa/	involuâmes /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥam/	involuâtes /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥat/	involuèrent /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɛʁ/
	future	involuerai /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁe/	involueras /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁa/	involuera /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁa/	involuerons /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁɔ̃/	involuerez /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁe/	involueront /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	involuerais /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁɛ/	involuerais /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁɛ/	involuerait /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁɛ/	involuerions /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁjɔ̃/	involueriez /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.ʁje/	involueraient /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.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	involue /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	involues /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	involue /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	involuions /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.jɔ̃/	involuiez /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.je/	involuent /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/
	imperfect2	involuasse /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥas/	involuasses /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥas/	involuât /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥa/	involuassions /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥa.sjɔ̃/	involuassiez /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥa.sje/	involuassent /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	involue /ɛ̃.vɔ.ly/	—	involuons /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥɔ̃/	involuez /ɛ̃.vɔ.lɥe/	—
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

• involution

Further reading

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