Verb
différer
- to differ
- to defer
2024 July 8, François Tonneau, quoting Marine Le Pen, “L'Assemblée nationale à fronts renversés”, in La Provence, page 2:“Notre victoire n’est que différée”, veut croire Marine Le Pen, qui a durci son cuir après deux présidentielles perdues contre Emmanuel Macron.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'.
One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written différer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written diffèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
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| différer |
| avoir + past participle |
différant
/di.fe.ʁɑ̃/ |
| ayant + past participle |
différé
/di.fe.ʁe/ |
| indicative |
je (j’) |
tu |
il, elle, on |
nous |
vous |
ils, elles |
(simple
tenses) |
present |
diffère
/di.fɛʁ/ |
diffères
/di.fɛʁ/ |
diffère
/di.fɛʁ/ |
différons
/di.fe.ʁɔ̃/ |
différez
/di.fe.ʁe/ |
diffèrent
/di.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect |
différais
/di.fe.ʁɛ/ |
différais
/di.fe.ʁɛ/ |
différait
/di.fe.ʁɛ/ |
différions
/di.fe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
différiez
/di.fe.ʁje/ |
différaient
/di.fe.ʁɛ/ |
| past historic2 |
différai
/di.fe.ʁe/ |
différas
/di.fe.ʁa/ |
différa
/di.fe.ʁa/ |
différâmes
/di.fe.ʁam/ |
différâtes
/di.fe.ʁat/ |
différèrent
/di.fe.ʁɛʁ/ |
| future |
diffèrerai or différerai
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁe/ |
diffèreras or différeras
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁa/ |
diffèrera or différera
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁa/ |
diffèrerons or différerons
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
diffèrerez or différerez
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁe/ |
diffèreront or différeront
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
| conditional |
diffèrerais or différerais
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
diffèrerais or différerais
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
diffèrerait or différerait
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
diffèrerions or différerions
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
diffèreriez or différeriez
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /di.fe.ʁə.ʁje/ |
diffèreraient or différeraient
/di.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /di.fe.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 |
diffère
/di.fɛʁ/ |
diffères
/di.fɛʁ/ |
diffère
/di.fɛʁ/ |
différions
/di.fe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
différiez
/di.fe.ʁje/ |
diffèrent
/di.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 |
différasse
/di.fe.ʁas/ |
différasses
/di.fe.ʁas/ |
différât
/di.fe.ʁa/ |
différassions
/di.fe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
différassiez
/di.fe.ʁa.sje/ |
différassent
/di.fe.ʁas/ |
(compound
tenses) |
past |
present subjunctive of avoir + past participle |
| pluperfect2 |
imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle |
| imperative |
– |
tu |
– |
nous |
vous |
– |
| simple |
— |
diffère
/di.fɛʁ/ |
— |
différons
/di.fe.ʁɔ̃/ |
différez
/di.fe.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). |
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