tiercer
French
Pronunciation
Verb
tiercer
- Alternative spelling of tercer
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of tiercer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tiercer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tierçant /tjɛʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tiercé /tjɛʁ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tierce /tjɛʁs/ |
tierces /tjɛʁs/ |
tierce /tjɛʁs/ |
tierçons /tjɛʁ.sɔ̃/ |
tiercez /tjɛʁ.se/ |
tiercent /tjɛʁs/ |
| imperfect | tierçais /tjɛʁ.sɛ/ |
tierçais /tjɛʁ.sɛ/ |
tierçait /tjɛʁ.sɛ/ |
tiercions /tjɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
tierciez /tjɛʁ.sje/ |
tierçaient /tjɛʁ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tierçai /tjɛʁ.se/ |
tierças /tjɛʁ.sa/ |
tierça /tjɛʁ.sa/ |
tierçâmes /tjɛʁ.sam/ |
tierçâtes /tjɛʁ.sat/ |
tiercèrent /tjɛʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | tiercerai /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
tierceras /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
tiercera /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
tiercerons /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
tiercerez /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
tierceront /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tiercerais /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
tiercerais /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
tiercerait /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
tiercerions /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tierceriez /tjɛʁ.sə.ʁje/ |
tierceraient /tjɛʁ.sə.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 | tierce /tjɛʁs/ |
tierces /tjɛʁs/ |
tierce /tjɛʁs/ |
tiercions /tjɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
tierciez /tjɛʁ.sje/ |
tiercent /tjɛʁs/ |
| imperfect2 | tierçasse /tjɛʁ.sas/ |
tierçasses /tjɛʁ.sas/ |
tierçât /tjɛʁ.sa/ |
tierçassions /tjɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
tierçassiez /tjɛʁ.sa.sje/ |
tierçassent /tjɛʁ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tierce /tjɛʁs/ |
— | tierçons /tjɛʁ.sɔ̃/ |
tiercez /tjɛʁ.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “tiercer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.