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avouer: Conjugation

The avouer conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb avouer according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of avouer, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of avouer at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
j' avoue tu avoues il/elle avoue nous avouons vous avouez ils/elles avouent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai avoué tu as avoué il/elle a avoué nous avons avoué vous avez avoué ils/elles ont avoué Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
j' avouais tu avouais il/elle avouait nous avouions vous avouiez ils/elles avouaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais avoué tu avais avoué il/elle avait avoué nous avions avoué vous aviez avoué ils/elles avaient avoué Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
j' avouerai tu avoueras il/elle avouera nous avouerons vous avouerez ils/elles avoueront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai avoué tu auras avoué il/elle aura avoué nous aurons avoué vous aurez avoué ils/elles auront avoué Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
j' avouerais tu avouerais il/elle avouerait nous avouerions vous avoueriez ils/elles avoueraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais avoué tu aurais avoué il/elle aurait avoué nous aurions avoué vous auriez avoué ils/elles auraient avoué Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
j' avoue tu avoues il/elle avoue nous avouions vous avouiez ils/elles avouent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie avoué tu aies avoué il/elle ait avoué nous ayons avoué vous ayez avoué ils/elles aient avoué Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
j' avouai tu avouas il/elle avoua nous avouâmes vous avouâtes ils/elles avouèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus avoué tu eus avoué il/elle eut avoué nous eûmes avoué vous eûtes avoué ils/elles eurent avoué Pronounce these verb forms

This verb follows the so-called regular -er verb pattern, the pattern followed by vast majority of verbs of the language, and by practically all new verbs entering the language.

The regular -er pattern has the following defining features:

• No characteristic consonant (contrast, for example, with verbs following the finir or dormir patterns, which have a characteristic -ss- and -m- in all forms but the present tense singular);
• No vowel change in the stem, other than where necessary to respect general patterns of French phonology (e.g. see préférer)²;
• Past participle in -é¹.

1. Outside the regular -er paradigm, only aller, être and naître have past participles ending in -é.
2. Many other verb patterns, except verbs of the finir type plus a few other patterns, have an irregular vowel change, e.g. boire > je bois vs nous buvons. See the grammar section on irregular verb patterns in French for a list of the different vowel changes.