aberrer

French

Etymology

1532, from Latin aberrāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

aberrer

1. (intransitive, very rare) to make a mistake; to wander in one's judgement
2. (transitive, very rare) to skew; to render inexact or aberrant
3. (intransitive, obsolete) to lose oneself or deviate from a straight path

Conjugation

Conjugation of aberrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aberrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aberrant /a.bɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /a.be.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aberré /a.bɛ.ʁe/ or /a.be.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aberre /a.bɛʁ/	aberres /a.bɛʁ/	aberre /a.bɛʁ/	aberrons /a.bɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁɔ̃/	aberrez /a.bɛ.ʁe/ or /a.be.ʁe/	aberrent /a.bɛʁ/
	imperfect	aberrais /a.bɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁɛ/	aberrais /a.bɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁɛ/	aberrait /a.bɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁɛ/	aberrions /a.bɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁjɔ̃/	aberriez /a.bɛ.ʁje/ or /a.be.ʁje/	aberraient /a.bɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	aberrai /a.bɛ.ʁe/ or /a.be.ʁe/	aberras /a.bɛ.ʁa/ or /a.be.ʁa/	aberra /a.bɛ.ʁa/ or /a.be.ʁa/	aberrâmes /a.bɛ.ʁam/ or /a.be.ʁam/	aberrâtes /a.bɛ.ʁat/ or /a.be.ʁat/	aberrèrent /a.bɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /a.be.ʁɛʁ/
	future	aberrerai /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁe/	aberreras /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁa/	aberrera /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁa/	aberrerons /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	aberrerez /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁe/	aberreront /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aberrerais /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁɛ/	aberrerais /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁɛ/	aberrerait /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁɛ/	aberrerions /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	aberreriez /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.be.ʁə.ʁje/	aberreraient /a.bɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.be.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	aberre /a.bɛʁ/	aberres /a.bɛʁ/	aberre /a.bɛʁ/	aberrions /a.bɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁjɔ̃/	aberriez /a.bɛ.ʁje/ or /a.be.ʁje/	aberrent /a.bɛʁ/
	imperfect2	aberrasse /a.bɛ.ʁas/ or /a.be.ʁas/	aberrasses /a.bɛ.ʁas/ or /a.be.ʁas/	aberrât /a.bɛ.ʁa/ or /a.be.ʁa/	aberrassions /a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	aberrassiez /a.bɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /a.be.ʁa.sje/	aberrassent /a.bɛ.ʁas/ or /a.be.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aberre /a.bɛʁ/	—	aberrons /a.bɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.be.ʁɔ̃/	aberrez /a.bɛ.ʁe/ or /a.be.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).

Related terms

• aberrant
• aberration

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

aberrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aberrō