postposer

French

Etymology

From Latin postponere, altered based on French poser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst.po.ze/

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Verb

postposer

1. (grammar) to postpose
2. (Belgium) to postpone

   Synonyms: ajourner, différer

Conjugation

Conjugation of postposer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	postposer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	postposant /pɔst.po.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		postposé /pɔst.po.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	postpose /pɔst.poz/	postposes /pɔst.poz/	postpose /pɔst.poz/	postposons /pɔst.po.zɔ̃/	postposez /pɔst.po.ze/	postposent /pɔst.poz/
	imperfect	postposais /pɔst.po.zɛ/	postposais /pɔst.po.zɛ/	postposait /pɔst.po.zɛ/	postposions /pɔst.po.zjɔ̃/	postposiez /pɔst.po.zje/	postposaient /pɔst.po.zɛ/
	past historic2	postposai /pɔst.po.ze/	postposas /pɔst.po.za/	postposa /pɔst.po.za/	postposâmes /pɔst.po.zam/	postposâtes /pɔst.po.zat/	postposèrent /pɔst.po.zɛʁ/
	future	postposerai /pɔst.poz.ʁe/	postposeras /pɔst.poz.ʁa/	postposera /pɔst.poz.ʁa/	postposerons /pɔst.poz.ʁɔ̃/	postposerez /pɔst.poz.ʁe/	postposeront /pɔst.poz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	postposerais /pɔst.poz.ʁɛ/	postposerais /pɔst.poz.ʁɛ/	postposerait /pɔst.poz.ʁɛ/	postposerions /pɔst.po.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	postposeriez /pɔst.po.zə.ʁje/	postposeraient /pɔst.poz.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	postpose /pɔst.poz/	postposes /pɔst.poz/	postpose /pɔst.poz/	postposions /pɔst.po.zjɔ̃/	postposiez /pɔst.po.zje/	postposent /pɔst.poz/
	imperfect2	postposasse /pɔst.po.zas/	postposasses /pɔst.po.zas/	postposât /pɔst.po.za/	postposassions /pɔst.po.za.sjɔ̃/	postposassiez /pɔst.po.za.sje/	postposassent /pɔst.po.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	postpose /pɔst.poz/	—	postposons /pɔst.po.zɔ̃/	postposez /pɔst.po.ze/	—
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

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