syllaber

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

syllaber

1. to syllabify

Conjugation

Conjugation of syllaber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	syllaber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	syllabant /si.la.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		syllabé /si.la.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	syllabe /si.lab/	syllabes /si.lab/	syllabe /si.lab/	syllabons /si.la.bɔ̃/	syllabez /si.la.be/	syllabent /si.lab/
	imperfect	syllabais /si.la.bɛ/	syllabais /si.la.bɛ/	syllabait /si.la.bɛ/	syllabions /si.la.bjɔ̃/	syllabiez /si.la.bje/	syllabaient /si.la.bɛ/
	past historic2	syllabai /si.la.be/	syllabas /si.la.ba/	syllaba /si.la.ba/	syllabâmes /si.la.bam/	syllabâtes /si.la.bat/	syllabèrent /si.la.bɛʁ/
	future	syllaberai /si.la.bʁe/	syllaberas /si.la.bʁa/	syllabera /si.la.bʁa/	syllaberons /si.la.bʁɔ̃/	syllaberez /si.la.bʁe/	syllaberont /si.la.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	syllaberais /si.la.bʁɛ/	syllaberais /si.la.bʁɛ/	syllaberait /si.la.bʁɛ/	syllaberions /si.la.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	syllaberiez /si.la.bə.ʁje/	syllaberaient /si.la.bʁɛ/
(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	syllabe /si.lab/	syllabes /si.lab/	syllabe /si.lab/	syllabions /si.la.bjɔ̃/	syllabiez /si.la.bje/	syllabent /si.lab/
	imperfect2	syllabasse /si.la.bas/	syllabasses /si.la.bas/	syllabât /si.la.ba/	syllabassions /si.la.ba.sjɔ̃/	syllabassiez /si.la.ba.sje/	syllabassent /si.la.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	syllabe /si.lab/	—	syllabons /si.la.bɔ̃/	syllabez /si.la.be/	—
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

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