conglomérer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

conglomérer

1. to conglomerate

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 conglomérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written conglomèrer-, 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 conglomérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	conglomérer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	conglomérant /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		congloméré /kɔ̃.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	conglomère /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	conglomères /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	conglomère /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	conglomérons /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɔ̃/	conglomérez /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁe/	conglomèrent /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/
	imperfect	conglomérais /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/	conglomérais /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/	conglomérait /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/	conglomérions /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁjɔ̃/	conglomériez /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁje/	congloméraient /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	conglomérai /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁe/	congloméras /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa/	congloméra /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa/	conglomérâmes /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁam/	conglomérâtes /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁat/	conglomérèrent /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɛʁ/
	future	conglomèrerai or conglomérerai /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁe/	conglomèreras or congloméreras /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁa/	conglomèrera or conglomérera /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁa/	conglomèrerons or conglomérerons /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	conglomèrerez or conglomérerez /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁe/	conglomèreront or congloméreront /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	conglomèrerais or conglomérerais /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conglomèrerais or conglomérerais /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conglomèrerait or conglomérerait /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conglomèrerions or conglomérerions /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	conglomèreriez or congloméreriez /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁə.ʁje/	conglomèreraient or congloméreraient /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.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	conglomère /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	conglomères /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	conglomère /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	conglomérions /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁjɔ̃/	conglomériez /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁje/	conglomèrent /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/
	imperfect2	conglomérasse /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁas/	conglomérasses /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁas/	conglomérât /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa/	conglomérassions /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	conglomérassiez /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sje/	conglomérassent /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conglomère /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.mɛʁ/	—	conglomérons /kɔ̃.ɡlɔ.me.ʁɔ̃/	conglomérez /kɔ̃.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

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