vaseliner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

vaseliner

1. to vaseline

Conjugation

Conjugation of vaseliner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vaseliner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vaselinant /vaz.li.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vaseliné /vaz.li.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vaseline /vaz.lin/	vaselines /vaz.lin/	vaseline /vaz.lin/	vaselinons /vaz.li.nɔ̃/	vaselinez /vaz.li.ne/	vaselinent /vaz.lin/
	imperfect	vaselinais /vaz.li.nɛ/	vaselinais /vaz.li.nɛ/	vaselinait /vaz.li.nɛ/	vaselinions /vaz.li.njɔ̃/	vaseliniez /vaz.li.nje/	vaselinaient /vaz.li.nɛ/
	past historic2	vaselinai /vaz.li.ne/	vaselinas /vaz.li.na/	vaselina /vaz.li.na/	vaselinâmes /vaz.li.nam/	vaselinâtes /vaz.li.nat/	vaselinèrent /vaz.li.nɛʁ/
	future	vaselinerai /vaz.lin.ʁe/	vaselineras /vaz.lin.ʁa/	vaselinera /vaz.lin.ʁa/	vaselinerons /vaz.lin.ʁɔ̃/	vaselinerez /vaz.lin.ʁe/	vaselineront /vaz.lin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vaselinerais /vaz.lin.ʁɛ/	vaselinerais /vaz.lin.ʁɛ/	vaselinerait /vaz.lin.ʁɛ/	vaselinerions /vaz.li.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	vaselineriez /vaz.li.nə.ʁje/	vaselineraient /vaz.lin.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	vaseline /vaz.lin/	vaselines /vaz.lin/	vaseline /vaz.lin/	vaselinions /vaz.li.njɔ̃/	vaseliniez /vaz.li.nje/	vaselinent /vaz.lin/
	imperfect2	vaselinasse /vaz.li.nas/	vaselinasses /vaz.li.nas/	vaselinât /vaz.li.na/	vaselinassions /vaz.li.na.sjɔ̃/	vaselinassiez /vaz.li.na.sje/	vaselinassent /vaz.li.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vaseline /vaz.lin/	—	vaselinons /vaz.li.nɔ̃/	vaselinez /vaz.li.ne/	—
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

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