agencer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

agencer

1. to arrange, to lay out, to piece together
2. (music) to arrange

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of agencer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agencer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agençant /a.ʒɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agencé /a.ʒɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agence /a.ʒɑ̃s/	agences /a.ʒɑ̃s/	agence /a.ʒɑ̃s/	agençons /a.ʒɑ̃.sɔ̃/	agencez /a.ʒɑ̃.se/	agencent /a.ʒɑ̃s/
	imperfect	agençais /a.ʒɑ̃.sɛ/	agençais /a.ʒɑ̃.sɛ/	agençait /a.ʒɑ̃.sɛ/	agencions /a.ʒɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	agenciez /a.ʒɑ̃.sje/	agençaient /a.ʒɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	agençai /a.ʒɑ̃.se/	agenças /a.ʒɑ̃.sa/	agença /a.ʒɑ̃.sa/	agençâmes /a.ʒɑ̃.sam/	agençâtes /a.ʒɑ̃.sat/	agencèrent /a.ʒɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	agencerai /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁe/	agenceras /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁa/	agencera /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁa/	agencerons /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	agencerez /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁe/	agenceront /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agencerais /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁɛ/	agencerais /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁɛ/	agencerait /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁɛ/	agencerions /a.ʒɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	agenceriez /a.ʒɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	agenceraient /a.ʒɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	agence /a.ʒɑ̃s/	agences /a.ʒɑ̃s/	agence /a.ʒɑ̃s/	agencions /a.ʒɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	agenciez /a.ʒɑ̃.sje/	agencent /a.ʒɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	agençasse /a.ʒɑ̃.sas/	agençasses /a.ʒɑ̃.sas/	agençât /a.ʒɑ̃.sa/	agençassions /a.ʒɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	agençassiez /a.ʒɑ̃.sa.sje/	agençassent /a.ʒɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agence /a.ʒɑ̃s/	—	agençons /a.ʒɑ̃.sɔ̃/	agencez /a.ʒɑ̃.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• agençable
• agencement
• agenceur

Further reading

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