grener

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

grener

1. to grain

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il grène and the third-person singular future indicative il grènera.

Conjugation of grener (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	grener
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grenant /ɡʁə.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grené /ɡʁə.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grène /ɡʁɛn/	grènes /ɡʁɛn/	grène /ɡʁɛn/	grenons /ɡʁə.nɔ̃/	grenez /ɡʁə.ne/	grènent /ɡʁɛn/
	imperfect	grenais /ɡʁə.nɛ/	grenais /ɡʁə.nɛ/	grenait /ɡʁə.nɛ/	grenions /ɡʁə.njɔ̃/	greniez /ɡʁə.nje/	grenaient /ɡʁə.nɛ/
	past historic2	grenai /ɡʁə.ne/	grenas /ɡʁə.na/	grena /ɡʁə.na/	grenâmes /ɡʁə.nam/	grenâtes /ɡʁə.nat/	grenèrent /ɡʁə.nɛʁ/
	future	grènerai /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/	grèneras /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/	grènera /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/	grènerons /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	grènerez /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/	grèneront /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grènerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grènerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grènerait /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grènerions /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	grèneriez /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɡʁe.nə.ʁje/	grèneraient /ɡʁɛn.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	grène /ɡʁɛn/	grènes /ɡʁɛn/	grène /ɡʁɛn/	grenions /ɡʁə.njɔ̃/	greniez /ɡʁə.nje/	grènent /ɡʁɛn/
	imperfect2	grenasse /ɡʁə.nas/	grenasses /ɡʁə.nas/	grenât /ɡʁə.na/	grenassions /ɡʁə.na.sjɔ̃/	grenassiez /ɡʁə.na.sje/	grenassent /ɡʁə.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grène /ɡʁɛn/	—	grenons /ɡʁə.nɔ̃/	grenez /ɡʁə.ne/	—
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

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

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Noun

grener m or f

1. indefinite plural of gren