transférer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsferre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/
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Verb

transférer

(transitive, intransitive) to transfer, remove

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written transférer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written transfèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of transférer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	transférer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	transférant /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transféré /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	transfères /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	transférons /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɔ̃/	transférez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/	transfèrent /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/
	imperfect	transférais /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/	transférais /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/	transférait /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/	transférions /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁjɔ̃/	transfériez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁje/	transféraient /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛ/
	past historic²	transférai /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁe/	transféras /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa/	transféra /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa/	transférâmes /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁam/	transférâtes /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁat/	transférèrent /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɛʁ/
	future	transfèrerai or transférerai /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁe/	transfèreras or transféreras /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁa/	transfèrera or transférera /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁa/	transfèrerons or transférerons /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	transfèrerez or transférerez /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁe/	transfèreront or transféreront /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transfèrerais or transférerais /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	transfèrerais or transférerais /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	transfèrerait or transférerait /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	transfèrerions or transférerions /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	transfèreriez or transféreriez /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁə.ʁje/	transfèreraient or transféreraient /tʁɑ̃s.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.fe.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	transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	transfères /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	transférions /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁjɔ̃/	transfériez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁje/	transfèrent /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	transférasse /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁas/	transférasses /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁas/	transférât /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa/	transférassions /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	transférassiez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁa.sje/	transférassent /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	transfère /tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ/	—	transférons /tʁɑ̃s.fe.ʁɔ̃/	transférez /tʁɑ̃s.fe.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).