saliver

French

Etymology

From salive +‎ -er, based on Latin salivare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.li.ve/

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Verb

saliver

1. to salivate (produce saliva)
2. to salivate (to show eager anticipation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of saliver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saliver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	salivant /sa.li.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		salivé /sa.li.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	salive /sa.liv/	salives /sa.liv/	salive /sa.liv/	salivons /sa.li.vɔ̃/	salivez /sa.li.ve/	salivent /sa.liv/
	imperfect	salivais /sa.li.vɛ/	salivais /sa.li.vɛ/	salivait /sa.li.vɛ/	salivions /sa.li.vjɔ̃/	saliviez /sa.li.vje/	salivaient /sa.li.vɛ/
	past historic2	salivai /sa.li.ve/	salivas /sa.li.va/	saliva /sa.li.va/	salivâmes /sa.li.vam/	salivâtes /sa.li.vat/	salivèrent /sa.li.vɛʁ/
	future	saliverai /sa.li.vʁe/	saliveras /sa.li.vʁa/	salivera /sa.li.vʁa/	saliverons /sa.li.vʁɔ̃/	saliverez /sa.li.vʁe/	saliveront /sa.li.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saliverais /sa.li.vʁɛ/	saliverais /sa.li.vʁɛ/	saliverait /sa.li.vʁɛ/	saliverions /sa.li.və.ʁjɔ̃/	saliveriez /sa.li.və.ʁje/	saliveraient /sa.li.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	salive /sa.liv/	salives /sa.liv/	salive /sa.liv/	salivions /sa.li.vjɔ̃/	saliviez /sa.li.vje/	salivent /sa.liv/
	imperfect2	salivasse /sa.li.vas/	salivasses /sa.li.vas/	salivât /sa.li.va/	salivassions /sa.li.va.sjɔ̃/	salivassiez /sa.li.va.sje/	salivassent /sa.li.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	salive /sa.liv/	—	salivons /sa.li.vɔ̃/	salivez /sa.li.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

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

Anagrams

• rivales, virales

Latin

Verb

salīver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of salīvō