The French for fear is the verb redouter

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French for fear is the regular ER verb redouter, displayed below in an easy to use tabular format which enables you to learn by subject pronoun, AND by tense. Most verb tables only allow you to learn only by tense, one tense at a time.

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The 6 Simple Tenses of the conjugated verb redouter - French for fear

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Here you’ll learn the conjugations of redouter, which is French for fear.

• I fear.
• you feared.
• he will fear.
• we would fear.
• they may fear.

The Verb Conjugation Tables below for redouter, let you to practise your French verb drills both by PRONOUN (vertically), and by TENSE (horizontally). Do these two sequences lots of times over.

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE redouter
Simple Tenses redouter
TENSE	je/j’	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
Present Présent fear	redoute	redoutes	redoute	redoutons	redoutez	redoutent
Past Imperfect Imparfait feared	redoutais	redoutais	redoutait	redoutions	redoutiez	redoutaient
Simple Past Passé Simple feared	redoutai	redoutas	redouta	redoutâmes	redoutâtes	redoutèrent
Future Futur will fear	redouterai	redouteras	redoutera	redouterons	redouterez	redouteront
Conditional Conditionnel would fear	redouterais	redouterais	redouterait	redouterions	redouteriez	redouteraient
Subjunctive Subjonctif may fear	redoute	redoutes	redoute	redoutions	redoutiez	redoutent
Compound Tenses redouter
Present Perfect Passé Composé have feared	ai redouté	as redouté	a redouté	avons redouté	avez redouté	ont redouté
Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had feared	avais redouté	avais redouté	avait redouté	avions redouté	aviez redouté	avaient redouté
Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have	aurai redouté	auras redouté	aura redouté	aurons redouté	aurez redouté	auront redouté
Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would have feared	aurais redouté	aurais redouté	aurait redouté	aurions redouté	auriez redouté	auraient redouté
Imperative Imperatif fear!		redoute		redoutons	redoutez

Present Indicative Tense conjugations of redouter the French for fear
présent de l’indicatif

je redoute
- I fear
tu redoutes
- you fear - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on redoute
- he, she, it, one fears
nous redoutons
- we fear
vous redoutez
- you fear (formal or plural)
ils, elles redoutent
- they fear

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Imperfect Indicative Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
imparfait de l’indicatif

je redoutais
- I feared
- I was fearing
tu redoutais
- you feared- (familiar or informal)
- you were fearing
il, elle, on redoutait
- he, she, it, one feared
- he, she, it, one was fearing
nous redoutions
- we feared
- we were fearing
vous redoutiez
- you feared- (formal or plural)
- you were fearing
ils, elles redoutaient
- they feared
- they were fearing

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Simple Past or Past Definite Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
passé simple

je redoutai
- I feared
tu redoutas
- you feared- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on redouta
- he, she, it, one feared
nous redoutâmes
- we feared
vous redoutâtes
- you feared- (formal or plural)
ils, elles redoutèrent
they feared
(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 redouter, the French for fear
futur

je redouterai
- I will fear
tu redouteras
- you will fear (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on redoutera
- he, she, it, one will fear
nous redouterons
- we will fear
vous redouterez
- you will fear (formal or plural)
ils, elles redouteront
- they will fear

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Conditional Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
conditionnel

je redouterais
- I would fear
tu redouterais
- you would fear (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on redouterait
- he, she, it, one would fear
nous redouterions
- we would fear
vous redouteriez
- you would fear (formal or plural)
ils, elles redouteraient
- they would fear

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Present Subjunctive Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
présent de subjonctif

que je redoute
- that I may fear
que tu redoutes
- that you may fear(familiar or informal)
qu’il, qu’elle, qu’on redoute
- that he, she, it, one may fear
que nous redoutions
- that we may fear
que vous redoutiez
- that you may fear(formal or plural)
qu’ils, qu’elles redoutent
- that they may fear

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The Four Compound Tenses of the French for verb redouter - the verb ‘to fear’ in French

Past Participle of redouter is:
redouté -feared.

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 feared
• you had feared
• he will have feared
• we would have feared

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Compound Past, Present Perfect or Past Indefinite Tense conjugations of redouter - French for fear
passé composé

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

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

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

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Future Perfect or Future Anterior Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
futur antérieur

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

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Conditional Perfect Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
conditionnel passé

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

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Imperative Tense conjugations of redouter, the French for fear
impératif

redoute
- fear!
redoutons
- let’s fear!
redoutez
- fear!

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Present Participle of redouter

redoutant - fearing

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