ceintrer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.tʁe/

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Verb

ceintrer

1. (nautical) to warp (a ship)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ceintrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ceintrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ceintrant /sɛ̃.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ceintré /sɛ̃.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ceintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	ceintres /sɛ̃tʁ/	ceintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	ceintrons /sɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	ceintrez /sɛ̃.tʁe/	ceintrent /sɛ̃tʁ/
	imperfect	ceintrais /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	ceintrais /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	ceintrait /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/	ceintrions /sɛ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	ceintriez /sɛ̃.tʁi.je/	ceintraient /sɛ̃.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	ceintrai /sɛ̃.tʁe/	ceintras /sɛ̃.tʁa/	ceintra /sɛ̃.tʁa/	ceintrâmes /sɛ̃.tʁam/	ceintrâtes /sɛ̃.tʁat/	ceintrèrent /sɛ̃.tʁɛʁ/
	future	ceintrerai /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	ceintreras /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	ceintrera /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	ceintrerons /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ceintrerez /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	ceintreront /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ceintrerais /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	ceintrerais /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	ceintrerait /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	ceintrerions /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ceintreriez /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁje/	ceintreraient /sɛ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	ceintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	ceintres /sɛ̃tʁ/	ceintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	ceintrions /sɛ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	ceintriez /sɛ̃.tʁi.je/	ceintrent /sɛ̃tʁ/
	imperfect2	ceintrasse /sɛ̃.tʁas/	ceintrasses /sɛ̃.tʁas/	ceintrât /sɛ̃.tʁa/	ceintrassions /sɛ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	ceintrassiez /sɛ̃.tʁa.sje/	ceintrassent /sɛ̃.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ceintre /sɛ̃tʁ/	—	ceintrons /sɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	ceintrez /sɛ̃.tʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “ceintrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012