violenter — French conjugation

to violently attack

Frequency#30Regular

Indicative

Present (Présent) Regular

Use the présent for habits, what is true now, and what is about to happen soon. A single set of endings covers what English often splits into “I speak” and “I am speaking”.

Elle parle arabe et français.

PronounFrench
jeviolente
tuviolentes
il/elleviolente
nousviolentons
vousviolentez
ils/ellesviolentent

Simple past (Passé simple) Regular

The passé simple narrates completed past events in a literary or very formal style. In everyday conversation people use the passé composé instead, so you mostly meet this form in books and journalism.

Ils virent le roi s'approcher.

PronounFrench
jeviolentai
tuviolentas
il/elleviolenta
nousviolentâmes
vousviolentâtes
ils/ellesviolentèrent

Imperfect (Imparfait) Regular

The imparfait describes ongoing or repeated past actions and sets the background — how things were, what used to happen, weather, feelings. The passé composé, by contrast, marks single completed events.

Quand j'étais petit, j'allais souvent à la piscine.

PronounFrench
jeviolentais
tuviolentais
il/elleviolentait
nousviolentions
vousviolentiez
ils/ellesviolentaient

Conditional (Conditionnel) Regular

The conditionnel is for polite questions and requests, “would”-type hypotheticals, and what someone said would happen. It is also the usual consequent clause in si + imparfait → conditionnel patterns.

Pourriez-vous répéter, s'il vous plaît ?

PronounFrench
jeviolenterais
tuviolenterais
il/elleviolenterait
nousviolenterions
vousviolenteriez
ils/ellesviolenteraient

Future (Futur) Regular

The futur is for future plans and objective predictions. In speech, aller + infinitive is often clearer for the immediate future, while the simple future is common for facts further ahead or in writing.

Demain, nous dînerons chez eux.

PronounFrench
jeviolenterai
tuviolenteras
il/elleviolentera
nousviolenterons
vousviolenterez
ils/ellesviolenteront

Present perfect (Passé composé) Regular

The passé composé is the main spoken past for completed, bounded actions (often with a time adverb). Use avoir with most verbs; être is required for a fixed group of motion/inchange and all pronominal verbs, with participle agreement when necessary.

Elle est venue tôt, puis elle a téléphoné.

PronounFrench
jej'ai violenté
tutu as violenté
il/elleil/elle a violenté
nousnous avons violenté
vousvous avez violenté
ils/ellesils/elles ont violenté

Pluperfect (Plus-que-parfait) Regular

The plus-que-parfait is the “earlier past”: one action was already over before another past moment. It answers “had already” when a story is anchored in a past time.

Déjà, il avait fini quand je suis arrivé.

PronounFrench
jej'avais violenté
tutu avais violenté
il/elleil/elle avait violenté
nousnous avions violenté
vousvous aviez violenté
ils/ellesils/elles avaient violenté

Conditional perfect (Conditionnel passé) Regular

The conditionnel passé states what would have been true, plans that failed, and unreal past if-clauses (often with si + plus-que-parfait in the apodose).

J'aurais dit oui, mais c'était impossible.

PronounFrench
jej'aurais violenté
tutu aurais violenté
il/elleil/elle aurait violenté
nousnous aurions violenté
vousvous auriez violenté
ils/ellesils/elles auraient violenté

Future perfect (Futur antérieur) Regular

The futur antérieur marks an action that will be finished before a later future moment (by then I will have…). It can also suggest a conjecture about a recent past fact in formal or literary use.

D'ici samedi, j'aurai lu le rapport.

PronounFrench
jej'aurai violenté
tutu auras violenté
il/elleil/elle aura violenté
nousnous aurons violenté
vousvous aurez violenté
ils/ellesils/elles auront violenté

Subjunctive

Present subjunctive (Subjonctif présent) Regular

The present subjunctive appears in subordinate clauses after desire, doubt, fear, need, and many impersonals, usually when the subject of the subordinate is different. Learn common triggers: il faut que, je veux que, je doute que…

Il faut qu'il parte avant midi.

PronounFrench
jeviolente
tuviolentes
il/elleviolente
nousviolentions
vousviolentiez
ils/ellesviolentent

Imperfect subjunctive (Subjonctif imparfait) Regular

The imparfait du subjonctif is a literary and formal past subjunctive. In modern speech, the present subjunctive usually replaces it for the same meaning.

Bien qu'il fût fatigué, il continua.

PronounFrench
jeviolentasse
tuviolentasses
il/elleviolentât
nousviolentassions
vousviolentassiez
ils/ellesviolentassent

Other forms

Imperative (Impératif) Regular

The imperative is for direct orders and advice to tu, nous, and vous. For many -er verbs, the tu form drops the final -s of the present (parle!); negatives use the subjunctive-like forms in practice.

Fermons la porte, s'il vous plaît !

PronounFrench
tuviolente
nousviolentons
vousviolentez