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tenter: Conjugation

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

Present	Perfect
je tente tu tentes il/elle tente nous tentons vous tentez ils/elles tentent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai tenté tu as tenté il/elle a tenté nous avons tenté vous avez tenté ils/elles ont tenté Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je tentais tu tentais il/elle tentait nous tentions vous tentiez ils/elles tentaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais tenté tu avais tenté il/elle avait tenté nous avions tenté vous aviez tenté ils/elles avaient tenté Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je tenterai tu tenteras il/elle tentera nous tenterons vous tenterez ils/elles tenteront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai tenté tu auras tenté il/elle aura tenté nous aurons tenté vous aurez tenté ils/elles auront tenté Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je tenterais tu tenterais il/elle tenterait nous tenterions vous tenteriez ils/elles tenteraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais tenté tu aurais tenté il/elle aurait tenté nous aurions tenté vous auriez tenté ils/elles auraient tenté Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je tente tu tentes il/elle tente nous tentions vous tentiez ils/elles tentent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie tenté tu aies tenté il/elle ait tenté nous ayons tenté vous ayez tenté ils/elles aient tenté Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je tentai tu tentas il/elle tenta nous tentâmes vous tentâtes ils/elles tentèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus tenté tu eus tenté il/elle eut tenté nous eûmes tenté vous eûtes tenté ils/elles eurent tenté 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.