octavier

French

Etymology

From octave +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.ta.vje/

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Verb

octavier

1. (music) to octavate

Conjugation

Conjugation of octavier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	octavier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	octaviant /ɔk.ta.vjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		octavié /ɔk.ta.vje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	octavie /ɔk.ta.vi/	octavies /ɔk.ta.vi/	octavie /ɔk.ta.vi/	octavions /ɔk.ta.vjɔ̃/	octaviez /ɔk.ta.vje/	octavient /ɔk.ta.vi/
	imperfect	octaviais /ɔk.ta.vjɛ/	octaviais /ɔk.ta.vjɛ/	octaviait /ɔk.ta.vjɛ/	octaviions /ɔk.ta.vi.jɔ̃/	octaviiez /ɔk.ta.vi.je/	octaviaient /ɔk.ta.vjɛ/
	past historic2	octaviai /ɔk.ta.vje/	octavias /ɔk.ta.vja/	octavia /ɔk.ta.vja/	octaviâmes /ɔk.ta.vjam/	octaviâtes /ɔk.ta.vjat/	octavièrent /ɔk.ta.vjɛʁ/
	future	octavierai /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁe/	octavieras /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁa/	octaviera /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁa/	octavierons /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁɔ̃/	octavierez /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁe/	octavieront /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	octavierais /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁɛ/	octavierais /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁɛ/	octavierait /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁɛ/	octavierions /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	octavieriez /ɔk.ta.vi.ʁje/	octavieraient /ɔk.ta.vi.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	octavie /ɔk.ta.vi/	octavies /ɔk.ta.vi/	octavie /ɔk.ta.vi/	octaviions /ɔk.ta.vi.jɔ̃/	octaviiez /ɔk.ta.vi.je/	octavient /ɔk.ta.vi/
	imperfect2	octaviasse /ɔk.ta.vjas/	octaviasses /ɔk.ta.vjas/	octaviât /ɔk.ta.vja/	octaviassions /ɔk.ta.vja.sjɔ̃/	octaviassiez /ɔk.ta.vja.sje/	octaviassent /ɔk.ta.vjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	octavie /ɔk.ta.vi/	—	octavions /ɔk.ta.vjɔ̃/	octaviez /ɔk.ta.vje/	—
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

• octaviation

Further reading

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