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participer: Conjugation

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

Present	Perfect
je participe tu participes il/elle participe nous participons vous participez ils/elles participent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai participé tu as participé il/elle a participé nous avons participé vous avez participé ils/elles ont participé Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je participais tu participais il/elle participait nous participions vous participiez ils/elles participaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais participé tu avais participé il/elle avait participé nous avions participé vous aviez participé ils/elles avaient participé Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je participerai tu participeras il/elle participera nous participerons vous participerez ils/elles participeront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai participé tu auras participé il/elle aura participé nous aurons participé vous aurez participé ils/elles auront participé Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je participerais tu participerais il/elle participerait nous participerions vous participeriez ils/elles participeraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais participé tu aurais participé il/elle aurait participé nous aurions participé vous auriez participé ils/elles auraient participé Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je participe tu participes il/elle participe nous participions vous participiez ils/elles participent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie participé tu aies participé il/elle ait participé nous ayons participé vous ayez participé ils/elles aient participé Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je participai tu participas il/elle participa nous participâmes vous participâtes ils/elles participèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus participé tu eus participé il/elle eut participé nous eûmes participé vous eûtes participé ils/elles eurent participé 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.