The French for awaken is the verb éveiller

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French for awaken is the regular ER verb éveiller, viewed thoroughly here in the main French tenses, past, present, future, conditional and subjunctives.

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The 6 Simple Tenses of the conjugated verb éveiller - French for awaken

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Here you’ll learn the conjugations of éveiller, which is French for awaken.

• I awaken.
• you awakened.
• he will awaken.
• we would awaken.
• they may awaken.

The Verb Tables of Conjugation now presented below for éveiller, allow you to practice your French verbs both by PRONOUN (vertically) - that is I, you, we, he, she, they etc, AND ALSO by TENSE (horizontally). Learn them both ways. Most verb tables only teach by tense, so that for example, you cannot actually learn the words for I from one tense to the other EXCEPT through learning each table by tense. In other words - a student is usually taught - I go, you go, he goes, we go, they go … BUT NOT I go, I went, I will go, I would go, I may go, I have gone etc, etc. These table allow this.

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE éveiller
Simple Tenses éveiller
TENSE	je/j’	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
Present Présent awaken	éveille	éveilles	éveille	éveillons	éveillez	éveillent
Past Imperfect Imparfait awakened	éveillais	éveillais	éveillait	éveillions	éveilliez	éveillaient
Simple Past Passé Simple awakened	éveillai	éveillas	éveilla	éveillâmes	éveillâtes	éveillèrent
Future Futur will awaken	éveillerai	éveilleras	éveillera	éveillerons	éveillerez	éveilleront
Conditional Conditionnel would awaken	éveillerais	éveillerais	éveillerait	éveillerions	éveilleriez	éveilleraient
Subjunctive Subjonctif may awaken	éveille	éveilles	éveille	éveillions	éveilliez	éveillent
Compound Tenses éveiller
Present Perfect Passé Composé have awakened	ai éveillé	as éveillé	a éveillé	avons éveillé	avez éveillé	ont éveillé
Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had awakened	avais éveillé	avais éveillé	avait éveillé	avions éveillé	aviez éveillé	avaient éveillé
Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have	aurai éveillé	auras éveillé	aura éveillé	aurons éveillé	aurez éveillé	auront éveillé
Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would have awakened	aurais éveillé	aurais éveillé	aurait éveillé	aurions éveillé	auriez éveillé	auraient éveillé
Imperative Imperatif awaken!		éveille		éveillons	éveillez

Present Indicative Tense conjugations of éveiller the French for awaken
présent de l’indicatif

je éveille
- I awaken
tu éveilles
- you awaken - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on éveille
- he, she, it, one awakens
nous éveillons
- we awaken
vous éveillez
- you awaken (formal or plural)
ils, elles éveillent
- they awaken

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Imperfect Indicative Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
imparfait de l’indicatif

je éveillais
- I awakened
- I was awakening
tu éveillais
- you awakened- (familiar or informal)
- you were awakening
il, elle, on éveillait
- he, she, it, one awakened
- he, she, it, one was awakening
nous éveillions
- we awakened
- we were awakening
vous éveilliez
- you awakened- (formal or plural)
- you were awakening
ils, elles éveillaient
- they awakened
- they were awakening

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Simple Past or Past Definite Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
passé simple

je éveillai
- I awakened
tu éveillas
- you awakened- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on éveilla
- he, she, it, one awakened
nous éveillâmes
- we awakened
vous éveillâtes
- you awakened- (formal or plural)
ils, elles éveillèrent
they awakened
(The passé simple tense is mainly used in literature and books, and is rarely used in spoken French language).

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Future Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
futur

je éveillerai
- I will awaken
tu éveilleras
- you will awaken (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on éveillera
- he, she, it, one will awaken
nous éveillerons
- we will awaken
vous éveillerez
- you will awaken (formal or plural)
ils, elles éveilleront
- they will awaken

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Conditional Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
conditionnel

je éveillerais
- I would awaken
tu éveillerais
- you would awaken (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on éveillerait
- he, she, it, one would awaken
nous éveillerions
- we would awaken
vous éveilleriez
- you would awaken (formal or plural)
ils, elles éveilleraient
- they would awaken

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Present Subjunctive Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
présent de subjonctif

que je éveille
- that I may awaken
que tu éveilles
- that you may awaken(familiar or informal)
qu’il, qu’elle, qu’on éveille
- that he, she, it, one may awaken
que nous éveillions
- that we may awaken
que vous éveilliez
- that you may awaken(formal or plural)
qu’ils, qu’elles éveillent
- that they may awaken

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The Four Compound Tenses of the French for verb éveiller - the verb ‘to awaken’ in French

Past Participle of éveiller is:
éveillé -awakened.

One can see the importance of the past participle in that it is used, with avoir to construct the compound tenses, four of which are in common useage today.

• I have awakened
• you had awakened
• he will have awakened
• we would have awakened

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Compound Past, Present Perfect or Past Indefinite Tense conjugations of éveiller - French for awaken
passé composé

Here’s the French for awaken conjugated with all the pronouns in the present perfect tense.
j’ai éveillé
- I have awakened or I did awaken or
- I awakened
tu as éveillé
- you have awakened or you did awaken - (familiar or informal) or
- you awakened
il, elle, on a éveillé
- he, she, it, one has awaken or did awaken
- he, she, it awakened
nous avons éveillé
- we have awakened or we did awaken
- we awakened
vous avez éveillé
- you have awakened or you did awaken (formal or plural) or
- or we awakened
ils, elles ont éveillé
- they have awakened or they did awaken
- they awakened

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Past Perfect Indicative or Pluperfect Tense conjugations of éveiller - awaken in French
plus-que-parfait de l’indicatif

Here’s the French for -awaken conjugated with all the pronouns in the past perfect tense.
j’avais éveillé
- I had awakened
tu avais éveillé
- you had awakened- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on avait éveillé
- he, she, it, one had awakened
nous avions éveillé
- we had awakened
vous aviez éveillé
- you had awakened (formal or plural)
ils, elles avaient éveillé
- they had awakened

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Future Perfect or Future Anterior Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
futur antérieur

j’aurai éveillé
- I will have
tu auras éveillé
- you will have - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on aura éveillé
- he, she, it, one will have
nous aurons éveillé
- we will have
vous aurez éveillé
- you will have - (formal or plural)
ils, elles auront éveillé
- they will have

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Conditional Perfect Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
conditionnel passé

j’aurais éveillé
- I would have awakened
tu aurais éveillé
- you would have awakened- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on aurait éveillé
- he, she, it, one would have awakened
nous aurions éveillé
- we would have awakened
vous auriez éveillé
- you would have awakened- (formal or plural)
ils, elles auraient éveillé
- they would have awakened

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Imperative Tense conjugations of éveiller, the French for awaken
impératif

éveille
- awaken!
éveillons
- let’s awaken!
éveillez
- awaken!

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Present Participle of éveiller

éveillant - awakening

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