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mériter: Conjugation

The mériter conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb mériter according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of mériter, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of mériter at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je mérite tu mérites il/elle mérite nous méritons vous méritez ils/elles méritent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai mérité tu as mérité il/elle a mérité nous avons mérité vous avez mérité ils/elles ont mérité Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je méritais tu méritais il/elle méritait nous méritions vous méritiez ils/elles méritaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais mérité tu avais mérité il/elle avait mérité nous avions mérité vous aviez mérité ils/elles avaient mérité Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je mériterai tu mériteras il/elle méritera nous mériterons vous mériterez ils/elles mériteront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai mérité tu auras mérité il/elle aura mérité nous aurons mérité vous aurez mérité ils/elles auront mérité Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je mériterais tu mériterais il/elle mériterait nous mériterions vous mériteriez ils/elles mériteraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais mérité tu aurais mérité il/elle aurait mérité nous aurions mérité vous auriez mérité ils/elles auraient mérité Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je mérite tu mérites il/elle mérite nous méritions vous méritiez ils/elles méritent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie mérité tu aies mérité il/elle ait mérité nous ayons mérité vous ayez mérité ils/elles aient mérité Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je méritai tu méritas il/elle mérita nous méritâmes vous méritâtes ils/elles méritèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus mérité tu eus mérité il/elle eut mérité nous eûmes mérité vous eûtes mérité ils/elles eurent mérité Pronounce these verb forms

This verb follows the so-called regular -er verb pattern, the pattern followed by vast majority of verbs of the language, and by practically all new verbs entering the language.

The regular -er pattern has the following defining features:

• No characteristic consonant (contrast, for example, with verbs following the finir or dormir patterns, which have a characteristic -ss- and -m- in all forms but the present tense singular);
• No vowel change in the stem, other than where necessary to respect general patterns of French phonology (e.g. see préférer)²;
• Past participle in -é¹.

1. Outside the regular -er paradigm, only aller, être and naître have past participles ending in -é.
2. Many other verb patterns, except verbs of the finir type plus a few other patterns, have an irregular vowel change, e.g. boire > je bois vs nous buvons. See the grammar section on irregular verb patterns in French for a list of the different vowel changes.