tigrer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ɡʁe/

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Verb

tigrer

1. to stripe (as a tiger)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tigrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tigrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tigrant /ti.ɡʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tigré /ti.ɡʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tigre /tiɡʁ/	tigres /tiɡʁ/	tigre /tiɡʁ/	tigrons /ti.ɡʁɔ̃/	tigrez /ti.ɡʁe/	tigrent /tiɡʁ/
	imperfect	tigrais /ti.ɡʁɛ/	tigrais /ti.ɡʁɛ/	tigrait /ti.ɡʁɛ/	tigrions /ti.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	tigriez /ti.ɡʁi.je/	tigraient /ti.ɡʁɛ/
	past historic2	tigrai /ti.ɡʁe/	tigras /ti.ɡʁa/	tigra /ti.ɡʁa/	tigrâmes /ti.ɡʁam/	tigrâtes /ti.ɡʁat/	tigrèrent /ti.ɡʁɛʁ/
	future	tigrerai /ti.ɡʁə.ʁe/	tigreras /ti.ɡʁə.ʁa/	tigrera /ti.ɡʁə.ʁa/	tigrerons /ti.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/	tigrerez /ti.ɡʁə.ʁe/	tigreront /ti.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tigrerais /ti.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	tigrerais /ti.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	tigrerait /ti.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	tigrerions /ti.ɡʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	tigreriez /ti.ɡʁə.ʁje/	tigreraient /ti.ɡʁə.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	tigre /tiɡʁ/	tigres /tiɡʁ/	tigre /tiɡʁ/	tigrions /ti.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	tigriez /ti.ɡʁi.je/	tigrent /tiɡʁ/
	imperfect2	tigrasse /ti.ɡʁas/	tigrasses /ti.ɡʁas/	tigrât /ti.ɡʁa/	tigrassions /ti.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/	tigrassiez /ti.ɡʁa.sje/	tigrassent /ti.ɡʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tigre /tiɡʁ/	—	tigrons /ti.ɡʁɔ̃/	tigrez /ti.ɡʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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

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Alternative forms

• tigere, tigre

Noun

tigrer m

1. indefinite plural of tiger