exacerber

French

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Verb

exacerber

1. to exacerbate, to worsen

Conjugation

Conjugation of exacerber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exacerber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exacerbant /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exacerbé /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exacerbe /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	exacerbes /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	exacerbe /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	exacerbons /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɔ̃/	exacerbez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.be/	exacerbent /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/
	imperfect	exacerbais /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɛ/	exacerbais /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɛ/	exacerbait /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɛ/	exacerbions /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bjɔ̃/	exacerbiez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bje/	exacerbaient /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɛ/
	past historic2	exacerbai /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.be/	exacerbas /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba/	exacerba /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba/	exacerbâmes /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bam/	exacerbâtes /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bat/	exacerbèrent /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɛʁ/
	future	exacerberai /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁe/	exacerberas /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁa/	exacerbera /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁa/	exacerberons /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/	exacerberez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁe/	exacerberont /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exacerberais /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	exacerberais /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	exacerberait /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	exacerberions /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	exacerberiez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.ʁje/	exacerberaient /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bə.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	exacerbe /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	exacerbes /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	exacerbe /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	exacerbions /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bjɔ̃/	exacerbiez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bje/	exacerbent /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/
	imperfect2	exacerbasse /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bas/	exacerbasses /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bas/	exacerbât /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba/	exacerbassions /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/	exacerbassiez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba.sje/	exacerbassent /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exacerbe /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb/	—	exacerbons /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.bɔ̃/	exacerbez /ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.be/	—
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

• exacerbation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

exacerber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exacerbō