agglomérer

See also: agglomerer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

agglomérer

1. to agglomerate; fuse together

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written agglomérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written agglomèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of agglomérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agglomérer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agglomérant /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aggloméré /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agglomère /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	agglomères /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	agglomère /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	agglomérons /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɔ̃/	agglomérez /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁe/	agglomèrent /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/
	imperfect	agglomérais /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/	agglomérais /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/	agglomérait /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/	agglomérions /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁjɔ̃/	agglomériez /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁje/	aggloméraient /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	agglomérai /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁe/	aggloméras /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa/	aggloméra /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa/	agglomérâmes /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁam/	agglomérâtes /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁat/	agglomérèrent /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛʁ/
	future	agglomèrerai or agglomérerai /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁe/	agglomèreras or aggloméreras /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁa/	agglomèrera or agglomérera /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁa/	agglomèrerons or agglomérerons /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	agglomèrerez or agglomérerez /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁe/	agglomèreront or aggloméreront /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agglomèrerais or agglomérerais /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɛ/	agglomèrerais or agglomérerais /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɛ/	agglomèrerait or agglomérerait /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɛ/	agglomèrerions or agglomérerions /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	agglomèreriez or aggloméreriez /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁje/	agglomèreraient or aggloméreraient /a.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.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	agglomère /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	agglomères /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	agglomère /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	agglomérions /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁjɔ̃/	agglomériez /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁje/	agglomèrent /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/
	imperfect2	agglomérasse /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁas/	agglomérasses /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁas/	agglomérât /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa/	agglomérassions /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	agglomérassiez /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sje/	agglomérassent /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agglomère /a.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	—	agglomérons /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɔ̃/	agglomérez /a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁe/	—
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

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