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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inversāre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.se/
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Verb

inverser

(transitive) to invert
barre oblique inversée ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

psychologie inversée ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
(transitive) to revert
(reflexive) to get reversed; to go the other way round

Conjugation

Conjugation of inverser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	inverser
present participle or gerund¹	simple	inversant /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inversé /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inverse /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	inverses /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	inverse /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	inversons /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɔ̃/	inversez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.se/	inversent /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/
	imperfect	inversais /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɛ/	inversais /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɛ/	inversait /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɛ/	inversions /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	inversiez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sje/	inversaient /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɛ/
	past historic²	inversai /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.se/	inversas /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sa/	inversa /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sa/	inversâmes /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sam/	inversâtes /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sat/	inversèrent /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	inverserai /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	inverseras /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	inversera /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	inverserons /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	inverserez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	inverseront /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inverserais /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	inverserais /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	inverserait /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	inverserions /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	inverseriez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.ʁje/	inverseraient /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sə.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	inverse /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	inverses /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	inverse /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	inversions /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	inversiez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sje/	inversent /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	inversasse /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sas/	inversasses /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sas/	inversât /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sa/	inversassions /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	inversassiez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sje/	inversassent /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	inverse /ɛ̃.vɛʁs/	—	inversons /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sɔ̃/	inversez /ɛ̃.vɛʁ.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).