ligaturer

French

Etymology

From the noun ligature.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ligaturer

1. (medicine) to ligate (tie up with a ligature)

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	ligaturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ligaturant /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ligaturé /li.ɡa.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ligature /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	ligatures /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	ligature /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	ligaturons /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɔ̃/	ligaturez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁe/	ligaturent /li.ɡa.tyʁ/
	imperfect	ligaturais /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɛ/	ligaturais /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɛ/	ligaturait /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɛ/	ligaturions /li.ɡa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	ligaturiez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁje/	ligaturaient /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	ligaturai /li.ɡa.ty.ʁe/	ligaturas /li.ɡa.ty.ʁa/	ligatura /li.ɡa.ty.ʁa/	ligaturâmes /li.ɡa.ty.ʁam/	ligaturâtes /li.ɡa.ty.ʁat/	ligaturèrent /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	ligaturerai /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	ligatureras /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	ligaturera /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	ligaturerons /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ligaturerez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	ligatureront /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ligaturerais /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ligaturerais /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ligaturerait /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ligaturerions /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ligatureriez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	ligatureraient /li.ɡa.ty.ʁə.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	ligature /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	ligatures /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	ligature /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	ligaturions /li.ɡa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	ligaturiez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁje/	ligaturent /li.ɡa.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	ligaturasse /li.ɡa.ty.ʁas/	ligaturasses /li.ɡa.ty.ʁas/	ligaturât /li.ɡa.ty.ʁa/	ligaturassions /li.ɡa.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	ligaturassiez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁa.sje/	ligaturassent /li.ɡa.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ligature /li.ɡa.tyʁ/	—	ligaturons /li.ɡa.ty.ʁɔ̃/	ligaturez /li.ɡa.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Conjugation of ligaturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Further reading

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