ambiancer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.se/

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Verb

ambiancer

1. (Africa) to set up a festive mood

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of ambiancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ambiancer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ambiançant /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ambiancé /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ambiance /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	ambiances /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	ambiance /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	ambiançons /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɔ̃/	ambiancez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.se/	ambiancent /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/
	imperfect	ambiançais /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɛ/	ambiançais /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɛ/	ambiançait /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɛ/	ambiancions /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	ambianciez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sje/	ambiançaient /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	ambiançai /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.se/	ambianças /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sa/	ambiança /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sa/	ambiançâmes /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sam/	ambiançâtes /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sat/	ambiancèrent /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	ambiancerai /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁe/	ambianceras /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁa/	ambiancera /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁa/	ambiancerons /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	ambiancerez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁe/	ambianceront /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ambiancerais /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁɛ/	ambiancerais /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁɛ/	ambiancerait /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁɛ/	ambiancerions /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	ambianceriez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	ambianceraient /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	ambiance /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	ambiances /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	ambiance /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	ambiancions /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	ambianciez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sje/	ambiancent /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	ambiançasse /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sas/	ambiançasses /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sas/	ambiançât /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sa/	ambiançassions /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	ambiançassiez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sa.sje/	ambiançassent /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ambiance /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/	—	ambiançons /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.sɔ̃/	ambiancez /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃.se/	—
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).