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consulter: Conjugation

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

Present	Perfect
je consulte tu consultes il/elle consulte nous consultons vous consultez ils/elles consultent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai consulté tu as consulté il/elle a consulté nous avons consulté vous avez consulté ils/elles ont consulté Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je consultais tu consultais il/elle consultait nous consultions vous consultiez ils/elles consultaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais consulté tu avais consulté il/elle avait consulté nous avions consulté vous aviez consulté ils/elles avaient consulté Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je consulterai tu consulteras il/elle consultera nous consulterons vous consulterez ils/elles consulteront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai consulté tu auras consulté il/elle aura consulté nous aurons consulté vous aurez consulté ils/elles auront consulté Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je consulterais tu consulterais il/elle consulterait nous consulterions vous consulteriez ils/elles consulteraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais consulté tu aurais consulté il/elle aurait consulté nous aurions consulté vous auriez consulté ils/elles auraient consulté Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je consulte tu consultes il/elle consulte nous consultions vous consultiez ils/elles consultent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie consulté tu aies consulté il/elle ait consulté nous ayons consulté vous ayez consulté ils/elles aient consulté Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je consultai tu consultas il/elle consulta nous consultâmes vous consultâtes ils/elles consultèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus consulté tu eus consulté il/elle eut consulté nous eûmes consulté vous eûtes consulté ils/elles eurent consulté 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.