nitrer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.tʁe/

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Verb

nitrer

1. to nitrate

   Synonym: nitrater

Conjugation

Conjugation of nitrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nitrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	nitrant /ni.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nitré /ni.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nitre /nitʁ/	nitres /nitʁ/	nitre /nitʁ/	nitrons /ni.tʁɔ̃/	nitrez /ni.tʁe/	nitrent /nitʁ/
	imperfect	nitrais /ni.tʁɛ/	nitrais /ni.tʁɛ/	nitrait /ni.tʁɛ/	nitrions /ni.tʁi.jɔ̃/	nitriez /ni.tʁi.je/	nitraient /ni.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	nitrai /ni.tʁe/	nitras /ni.tʁa/	nitra /ni.tʁa/	nitrâmes /ni.tʁam/	nitrâtes /ni.tʁat/	nitrèrent /ni.tʁɛʁ/
	future	nitrerai /ni.tʁə.ʁe/	nitreras /ni.tʁə.ʁa/	nitrera /ni.tʁə.ʁa/	nitrerons /ni.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	nitrerez /ni.tʁə.ʁe/	nitreront /ni.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nitrerais /ni.tʁə.ʁɛ/	nitrerais /ni.tʁə.ʁɛ/	nitrerait /ni.tʁə.ʁɛ/	nitrerions /ni.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	nitreriez /ni.tʁə.ʁje/	nitreraient /ni.tʁə.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	nitre /nitʁ/	nitres /nitʁ/	nitre /nitʁ/	nitrions /ni.tʁi.jɔ̃/	nitriez /ni.tʁi.je/	nitrent /nitʁ/
	imperfect2	nitrasse /ni.tʁas/	nitrasses /ni.tʁas/	nitrât /ni.tʁa/	nitrassions /ni.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	nitrassiez /ni.tʁa.sje/	nitrassent /ni.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nitre /nitʁ/	—	nitrons /ni.tʁɔ̃/	nitrez /ni.tʁe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• rirent, ternir