The French for mother is the verb materner

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French for mother is the regular ER verb materner, viewed thoroughly here in the main French tenses, past, present, future, conditional and subjunctives.

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The 6 Simple Tenses of the conjugated verb materner - French for mother

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Here you’ll learn the conjugations of materner, which is French for mother.

• I mother.
• you mothered.
• he will mother.
• we would mother.
• they may mother.

The Verb Tables of Conjugation now presented below for materner, allow you to practice your French verbs both by PRONOUN (vertically) - that is I, you, we, he, she, they etc, AND ALSO by TENSE (horizontally). Learn them both ways. Most verb tables only teach by tense, so that for example, you cannot actually learn the words for I from one tense to the other EXCEPT through learning each table by tense. In other words - a student is usually taught - I go, you go, he goes, we go, they go … BUT NOT I go, I went, I will go, I would go, I may go, I have gone etc, etc. These table allow this.

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE materner
Simple Tenses materner
TENSE	je/j’	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
Present Présent mother	materne	maternes	materne	maternons	maternez	maternent
Past Imperfect Imparfait mothered	maternais	maternais	maternait	maternions	materniez	maternaient
Simple Past Passé Simple mothered	maternai	maternas	materna	maternâmes	maternâtes	maternèrent
Future Futur will mother	maternerai	materneras	maternera	maternerons	maternerez	materneront
Conditional Conditionnel would mother	maternerais	maternerais	maternerait	maternerions	materneriez	materneraient
Subjunctive Subjonctif may mother	materne	maternes	materne	maternions	materniez	maternent
Compound Tenses materner
Present Perfect Passé Composé have mothered	ai materné	as materné	a materné	avons materné	avez materné	ont materné
Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had mothered	avais materné	avais materné	avait materné	avions materné	aviez materné	avaient materné
Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have	aurai materné	auras materné	aura materné	aurons materné	aurez materné	auront materné
Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would have mothered	aurais materné	aurais materné	aurait materné	aurions materné	auriez materné	auraient materné
Imperative Imperatif mother!		materne		maternons	maternez

Present Indicative Tense conjugations of materner the French for mother
présent de l’indicatif

je materne
- I mother
tu maternes
- you mother - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on materne
- he, she, it, one mothers
nous maternons
- we mother
vous maternez
- you mother (formal or plural)
ils, elles maternent
- they mother

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Imperfect Indicative Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
imparfait de l’indicatif

je maternais
- I mothered
- I was mothering
tu maternais
- you mothered- (familiar or informal)
- you were mothering
il, elle, on maternait
- he, she, it, one mothered
- he, she, it, one was mothering
nous maternions
- we mothered
- we were mothering
vous materniez
- you mothered- (formal or plural)
- you were mothering
ils, elles maternaient
- they mothered
- they were mothering

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Simple Past or Past Definite Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
passé simple

je maternai
- I mothered
tu maternas
- you mothered- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on materna
- he, she, it, one mothered
nous maternâmes
- we mothered
vous maternâtes
- you mothered- (formal or plural)
ils, elles maternèrent
they mothered
(The passé simple tense is mainly used in literature and books, and is rarely used in spoken French language).

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Future Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
futur

je maternerai
- I will mother
tu materneras
- you will mother (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on maternera
- he, she, it, one will mother
nous maternerons
- we will mother
vous maternerez
- you will mother (formal or plural)
ils, elles materneront
- they will mother

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Conditional Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
conditionnel

je maternerais
- I would mother
tu maternerais
- you would mother (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on maternerait
- he, she, it, one would mother
nous maternerions
- we would mother
vous materneriez
- you would mother (formal or plural)
ils, elles materneraient
- they would mother

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Present Subjunctive Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
présent de subjonctif

que je materne
- that I may mother
que tu maternes
- that you may mother(familiar or informal)
qu’il, qu’elle, qu’on materne
- that he, she, it, one may mother
que nous maternions
- that we may mother
que vous materniez
- that you may mother(formal or plural)
qu’ils, qu’elles maternent
- that they may mother

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The Four Compound Tenses of the French for verb materner - the verb ‘to mother’ in French

Past Participle of materner is:
materné -mothered.

The various tenses of the French verb - to have - avoirecause the past participle is used with , to construct the four main compound tenses, its importance is highlighted. Once you have mastered avoir, you have mastered the key to constructing compound verbs in French.

• I have mothered
• you had mothered
• he will have mothered
• we would have mothered

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Compound Past, Present Perfect or Past Indefinite Tense conjugations of materner - French for mother
passé composé

Here’s the French for mother conjugated with all the pronouns in the present perfect tense.
j’ai materné
- I have mothered or I did mother or
- I mothered
tu as materné
- you have mothered or you did mother - (familiar or informal) or
- you mothered
il, elle, on a materné
- he, she, it, one has mother or did mother
- he, she, it mothered
nous avons materné
- we have mothered or we did mother
- we mothered
vous avez materné
- you have mothered or you did mother (formal or plural) or
- or we mothered
ils, elles ont materné
- they have mothered or they did mother
- they mothered

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Past Perfect Indicative or Pluperfect Tense conjugations of materner - mother in French
plus-que-parfait de l’indicatif

Here’s the French for -mother conjugated with all the pronouns in the past perfect tense.
j’avais materné
- I had mothered
tu avais materné
- you had mothered- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on avait materné
- he, she, it, one had mothered
nous avions materné
- we had mothered
vous aviez materné
- you had mothered (formal or plural)
ils, elles avaient materné
- they had mothered

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Future Perfect or Future Anterior Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
futur antérieur

j’aurai materné
- I will have
tu auras materné
- you will have - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on aura materné
- he, she, it, one will have
nous aurons materné
- we will have
vous aurez materné
- you will have - (formal or plural)
ils, elles auront materné
- they will have

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Conditional Perfect Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
conditionnel passé

j’aurais materné
- I would have mothered
tu aurais materné
- you would have mothered- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on aurait materné
- he, she, it, one would have mothered
nous aurions materné
- we would have mothered
vous auriez materné
- you would have mothered- (formal or plural)
ils, elles auraient materné
- they would have mothered

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Imperative Tense conjugations of materner, the French for mother
impératif

materne
- mother!
maternons
- let’s mother!
maternez
- mother!

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Present Participle of materner

maternant - mothering

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