entr'apercevoir

French

Verb

entr’apercevoir

1. Alternative spelling of entrapercevoir

Conjugation

Conjugation of entr'apercevoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	entr'apercevoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	entr’apercevant /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		entr’aperçu /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	entr’aperçois /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swa/	entr’aperçois /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swa/	entr’aperçoit /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swa/	entr’apercevons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɔ̃/	entr’apercevez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.ve/	entr’aperçoivent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swav/
	imperfect	entr’apercevais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ/	entr’apercevais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ/	entr’apercevait /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ/	entr’apercevions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vjɔ̃/	entr’aperceviez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vje/	entr’apercevaient /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ/
	past historic2	entr’aperçus /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy/	entr’aperçus /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy/	entr’aperçut /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy/	entr’aperçûmes /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sym/	entr’aperçûtes /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.syt/	entr’aperçurent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.syʁ/
	future	entr’apercevrai /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁe/	entr’apercevras /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁa/	entr’apercevra /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁa/	entr’apercevrons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁɔ̃/	entr’apercevrez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁe/	entr’apercevront /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	entr’apercevrais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁɛ/	entr’apercevrais /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁɛ/	entr’apercevrait /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁɛ/	entr’apercevrions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁi.jɔ̃/	entr’apercevriez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁi.je/	entr’apercevraient /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vʁɛ/
(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	entr’aperçoive /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swav/	entr’aperçoives /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swav/	entr’aperçoive /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swav/	entr’apercevions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vjɔ̃/	entr’aperceviez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vje/	entr’aperçoivent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swav/
	imperfect2	entr’aperçusse /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sys/	entr’aperçusses /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sys/	entr’aperçût /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy/	entr’aperçussions /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy.sjɔ̃/	entr’aperçussiez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sy.sje/	entr’aperçussent /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entr’aperçois /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.swa/	—	entr’apercevons /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.vɔ̃/	entr’apercevez /ɑ̃.tʁ‿a.pɛʁ.sə.ve/	—
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

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