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sonder: Conjugation

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

Present	Perfect
je sonde tu sondes il/elle sonde nous sondons vous sondez ils/elles sondent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai sondé tu as sondé il/elle a sondé nous avons sondé vous avez sondé ils/elles ont sondé Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je sondais tu sondais il/elle sondait nous sondions vous sondiez ils/elles sondaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais sondé tu avais sondé il/elle avait sondé nous avions sondé vous aviez sondé ils/elles avaient sondé Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je sonderai tu sonderas il/elle sondera nous sonderons vous sonderez ils/elles sonderont Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai sondé tu auras sondé il/elle aura sondé nous aurons sondé vous aurez sondé ils/elles auront sondé Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je sonderais tu sonderais il/elle sonderait nous sonderions vous sonderiez ils/elles sonderaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais sondé tu aurais sondé il/elle aurait sondé nous aurions sondé vous auriez sondé ils/elles auraient sondé Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je sonde tu sondes il/elle sonde nous sondions vous sondiez ils/elles sondent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie sondé tu aies sondé il/elle ait sondé nous ayons sondé vous ayez sondé ils/elles aient sondé Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je sondai tu sondas il/elle sonda nous sondâmes vous sondâtes ils/elles sondèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus sondé tu eus sondé il/elle eut sondé nous eûmes sondé vous eûtes sondé ils/elles eurent sondé 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.