appendre

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appendere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

appendre

1. to hang (something) from

Conjugation

Conjugation of appendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	appendre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	appendant /a.pɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		appendu /a.pɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	appends /a.pɑ̃/	appends /a.pɑ̃/	append /a.pɑ̃/	appendons /a.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/	appendez /a.pɑ̃.de/	appendent /a.pɑ̃d/
	imperfect	appendais /a.pɑ̃.dɛ/	appendais /a.pɑ̃.dɛ/	appendait /a.pɑ̃.dɛ/	appendions /a.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/	appendiez /a.pɑ̃.dje/	appendaient /a.pɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	appendis /a.pɑ̃.di/	appendis /a.pɑ̃.di/	appendit /a.pɑ̃.di/	appendîmes /a.pɑ̃.dim/	appendîtes /a.pɑ̃.dit/	appendirent /a.pɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	appendrai /a.pɑ̃.dʁe/	appendras /a.pɑ̃.dʁa/	appendra /a.pɑ̃.dʁa/	appendrons /a.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	appendrez /a.pɑ̃.dʁe/	appendront /a.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	appendrais /a.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	appendrais /a.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	appendrait /a.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	appendrions /a.pɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	appendriez /a.pɑ̃.dʁi.je/	appendraient /a.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	appende /a.pɑ̃d/	appendes /a.pɑ̃d/	appende /a.pɑ̃d/	appendions /a.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/	appendiez /a.pɑ̃.dje/	appendent /a.pɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	appendisse /a.pɑ̃.dis/	appendisses /a.pɑ̃.dis/	appendît /a.pɑ̃.di/	appendissions /a.pɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	appendissiez /a.pɑ̃.di.sje/	appendissent /a.pɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	appends /a.pɑ̃/	—	appendons /a.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/	appendez /a.pɑ̃.de/	—
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

• pendre

Paronyms

• apprendre

Further reading

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