Subjonctif Plus-que-parfait (Subjunctive Pluperfect) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Introduction to the verb décavaillonner
The English translation of “décavaillonner” is “to hill up”, and it is pronounced as “dey-kah-ve-yo-nay”.
The verb décavaillonner comes from the word “cavaillon”, which refers to the action of piling up soil around the base of plants to protect their roots and promote growth. It is most commonly used in agriculture to describe the act of creating hills or ridges of soil around plants.
In everyday French, décavaillonner is most often used in the Subjonctif Plus-que-parfait tense, which is used to express an action that would have happened in the past if certain conditions had been met.
Examples:
- Il aurait décavaillonné les tomates si la température avait été plus chaude. (He would have hilled up the tomatoes if the temperature had been warmer.)
- Si nous avions eu plus de temps, nous aurions décavaillonné toutes les cultures. (If we had had more time, we would have hilled up all the crops.)
- Les agriculteurs auraient décavaillonné les champs avant les fortes pluies. (The farmers would have hilled up the fields before the heavy rains.)
In all of these examples, the action of décavaillonner is conditional upon a specific circumstance in the past. The Subjonctif Plus-que-parfait tense is used to express this conditionality.
Table of the Subjonctif Plus-que-parfait (Subjunctive Pluperfect) Tense Conjugation of décavaillonner
Pronoun | Conjugation | Example Usage | English Translation |
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je | eusse décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu que je eusse décavaillonné. | I wish I had decavailloned. |
tu | eusses décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu que tu eusses décavaillonné. | I wish you had decavailloned. |
il | eût décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu qu’il eût décavaillonné. | I wish he had decavailloned. |
elle | eût décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu qu’elle eût décavaillonné. | I wish she had decavailloned. |
on | eût décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu qu’on eût décavaillonné. | I wish one had decavailloned. |
nous | eussions décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu que nous eussions décavaillonné. | I wish we had decavailloned. |
vous | eussiez décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu que vous eussiez décavaillonné. | I wish you had decavailloned. |
ils | eussent décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu qu’ils eussent décavaillonné. | I wish they had decavailloned. |
elles | eussent décavaillonné | Il aurait fallu qu’elles eussent décavaillonné. | I wish they had decavailloned. |
Other Conjugations for Décavaillonner.
Le Present (Present Tense) Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Imparfait (Imperfect) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Passé Simple (Simple Past) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Passé Composé (Present Perfect) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Futur Simple (Simple Future) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Futur Proche (Near Future) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Plus-que-parfait (Pluperfect) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Passé Antérieur (Past Anterior) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Futur Antérieur (Future Anterior) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Subjonctif Présent (Subjunctive Present) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Subjonctif Passé (Subjunctive Past) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Subjonctif Imparfait (Subjunctive Imperfect) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Conditionnel Présent (Conditional Present) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
Conditionnel Passé (Conditional Past) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
L’impératif Présent (Imperative Present) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
L’infinitif Présent (Infinitive Present) Tense Conjugation of the French Verb décavaillonner
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Décavaillonner – About the French Subjonctif Plus-que-parfait (Subjunctive Pluperfect) Tense
Formation
Common Everyday Usage Patterns
Hypothetical Situations
Reported Speech
Doubt, Wishes, and Emotions
Interactions with Other Tenses
Present Subjunctive
Imperfect Subjunctive
Conditional
Summary
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