nacrer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.kʁe/

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Verb

nacrer

1. to give the appearance of mother-of-pearl

Conjugation

Conjugation of nacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nacrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	nacrant /na.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nacré /na.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nacre /nakʁ/	nacres /nakʁ/	nacre /nakʁ/	nacrons /na.kʁɔ̃/	nacrez /na.kʁe/	nacrent /nakʁ/
	imperfect	nacrais /na.kʁɛ/	nacrais /na.kʁɛ/	nacrait /na.kʁɛ/	nacrions /na.kʁi.jɔ̃/	nacriez /na.kʁi.je/	nacraient /na.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	nacrai /na.kʁe/	nacras /na.kʁa/	nacra /na.kʁa/	nacrâmes /na.kʁam/	nacrâtes /na.kʁat/	nacrèrent /na.kʁɛʁ/
	future	nacrerai /na.kʁə.ʁe/	nacreras /na.kʁə.ʁa/	nacrera /na.kʁə.ʁa/	nacrerons /na.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	nacrerez /na.kʁə.ʁe/	nacreront /na.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nacrerais /na.kʁə.ʁɛ/	nacrerais /na.kʁə.ʁɛ/	nacrerait /na.kʁə.ʁɛ/	nacrerions /na.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	nacreriez /na.kʁə.ʁje/	nacreraient /na.kʁə.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	nacre /nakʁ/	nacres /nakʁ/	nacre /nakʁ/	nacrions /na.kʁi.jɔ̃/	nacriez /na.kʁi.je/	nacrent /nakʁ/
	imperfect2	nacrasse /na.kʁas/	nacrasses /na.kʁas/	nacrât /na.kʁa/	nacrassions /na.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	nacrassiez /na.kʁa.sje/	nacrassent /na.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nacre /nakʁ/	—	nacrons /na.kʁɔ̃/	nacrez /na.kʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• renacrer

Further reading

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