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tourner: Conjugation

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

Present	Perfect
je tourne tu tournes il/elle tourne nous tournons vous tournez ils/elles tournent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai tourné tu as tourné il/elle a tourné nous avons tourné vous avez tourné ils/elles ont tourné Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je tournais tu tournais il/elle tournait nous tournions vous tourniez ils/elles tournaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais tourné tu avais tourné il/elle avait tourné nous avions tourné vous aviez tourné ils/elles avaient tourné Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je tournerai tu tourneras il/elle tournera nous tournerons vous tournerez ils/elles tourneront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai tourné tu auras tourné il/elle aura tourné nous aurons tourné vous aurez tourné ils/elles auront tourné Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je tournerais tu tournerais il/elle tournerait nous tournerions vous tourneriez ils/elles tourneraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais tourné tu aurais tourné il/elle aurait tourné nous aurions tourné vous auriez tourné ils/elles auraient tourné Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je tourne tu tournes il/elle tourne nous tournions vous tourniez ils/elles tournent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie tourné tu aies tourné il/elle ait tourné nous ayons tourné vous ayez tourné ils/elles aient tourné Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je tournai tu tournas il/elle tourna nous tournâmes vous tournâtes ils/elles tournèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus tourné tu eus tourné il/elle eut tourné nous eûmes tourné vous eûtes tourné ils/elles eurent tourné 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.