varier
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Noun
varier (plural variers)
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin variāre, variō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.ʁje/
Audio (France): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Homophones: variai, varié, variée, variées, variés, variez
Verb
varier
- to vary
Conjugation
Conjugation of varier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | varier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | variant /va.ʁjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | varié /va.ʁje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | varie /va.ʁi/ |
varies /va.ʁi/ |
varie /va.ʁi/ |
varions /va.ʁjɔ̃/ |
variez /va.ʁje/ |
varient /va.ʁi/ |
| imperfect | variais /va.ʁjɛ/ |
variais /va.ʁjɛ/ |
variait /va.ʁjɛ/ |
variions /va.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
variiez /va.ʁi.je/ |
variaient /va.ʁjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | variai /va.ʁje/ |
varias /va.ʁja/ |
varia /va.ʁja/ |
variâmes /va.ʁjam/ |
variâtes /va.ʁjat/ |
varièrent /va.ʁjɛʁ/ | |
| future | varierai /va.ʁi.ʁe/ |
varieras /va.ʁi.ʁa/ |
variera /va.ʁi.ʁa/ |
varierons /va.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
varierez /va.ʁi.ʁe/ |
varieront /va.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | varierais /va.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
varierais /va.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
varierait /va.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
varierions /va.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
varieriez /va.ʁi.ʁje/ |
varieraient /va.ʁi.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 | varie /va.ʁi/ |
varies /va.ʁi/ |
varie /va.ʁi/ |
variions /va.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
variiez /va.ʁi.je/ |
varient /va.ʁi/ |
| imperfect2 | variasse /va.ʁjas/ |
variasses /va.ʁjas/ |
variât /va.ʁja/ |
variassions /va.ʁja.sjɔ̃/ |
variassiez /va.ʁja.sje/ |
variassent /va.ʁjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | varie /va.ʁi/ |
— | varions /va.ʁjɔ̃/ |
variez /va.ʁje/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “varier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
varier
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of variō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
varier
- imperative of variere