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veiller: Conjugation

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

Present	Perfect
je veille tu veilles il/elle veille nous veillons vous veillez ils/elles veillent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai veillé tu as veillé il/elle a veillé nous avons veillé vous avez veillé ils/elles ont veillé Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je veillais tu veillais il/elle veillait nous veillions vous veilliez ils/elles veillaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais veillé tu avais veillé il/elle avait veillé nous avions veillé vous aviez veillé ils/elles avaient veillé Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je veillerai tu veilleras il/elle veillera nous veillerons vous veillerez ils/elles veilleront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai veillé tu auras veillé il/elle aura veillé nous aurons veillé vous aurez veillé ils/elles auront veillé Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je veillerais tu veillerais il/elle veillerait nous veillerions vous veilleriez ils/elles veilleraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais veillé tu aurais veillé il/elle aurait veillé nous aurions veillé vous auriez veillé ils/elles auraient veillé Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je veille tu veilles il/elle veille nous veillions vous veilliez ils/elles veillent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie veillé tu aies veillé il/elle ait veillé nous ayons veillé vous ayez veillé ils/elles aient veillé Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je veillai tu veillas il/elle veilla nous veillâmes vous veillâtes ils/elles veillèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus veillé tu eus veillé il/elle eut veillé nous eûmes veillé vous eûtes veillé ils/elles eurent veillé 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.