cascader
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cascader (plural cascaders)
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Zygonyx, family Libellulidae, which commonly inhabit watercourses with waterfalls.
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Verb[edit]
cascader
- to cascade
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of cascader (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cascader | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cascadant /kas.ka.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cascadé /kas.ka.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cascade /kas.kad/ |
cascades /kas.kad/ |
cascade /kas.kad/ |
cascadons /kas.ka.dɔ̃/ |
cascadez /kas.ka.de/ |
cascadent /kas.kad/ |
| imperfect | cascadais /kas.ka.dɛ/ |
cascadais /kas.ka.dɛ/ |
cascadait /kas.ka.dɛ/ |
cascadions /kas.ka.djɔ̃/ |
cascadiez /kas.ka.dje/ |
cascadaient /kas.ka.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cascadai /kas.ka.de/ |
cascadas /kas.ka.da/ |
cascada /kas.ka.da/ |
cascadâmes /kas.ka.dam/ |
cascadâtes /kas.ka.dat/ |
cascadèrent /kas.ka.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | cascaderai /kas.ka.dʁe/ |
cascaderas /kas.ka.dʁa/ |
cascadera /kas.ka.dʁa/ |
cascaderons /kas.ka.dʁɔ̃/ |
cascaderez /kas.ka.dʁe/ |
cascaderont /kas.ka.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cascaderais /kas.ka.dʁɛ/ |
cascaderais /kas.ka.dʁɛ/ |
cascaderait /kas.ka.dʁɛ/ |
cascaderions /kas.ka.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cascaderiez /kas.ka.də.ʁje/ |
cascaderaient /kas.ka.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | cascade /kas.kad/ |
cascades /kas.kad/ |
cascade /kas.kad/ |
cascadions /kas.ka.djɔ̃/ |
cascadiez /kas.ka.dje/ |
cascadent /kas.kad/ |
| imperfect2 | cascadasse /kas.ka.das/ |
cascadasses /kas.ka.das/ |
cascadât /kas.ka.da/ |
cascadassions /kas.ka.da.sjɔ̃/ |
cascadassiez /kas.ka.da.sje/ |
cascadassent /kas.ka.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cascade /kas.kad/ |
— | cascadons /kas.ka.dɔ̃/ |
cascadez /kas.ka.de/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “cascader”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.