Tous les temps et tous les modes : découvrez en détails la conjugaison de clean en anglais, ainsi que les principaux synonymes, définitions, expressions et phrasal verbs rattachés à ce verbe !
Tableaux de conjugaison de clean en anglais
Conjugaison du verbe clean à l’indicatif
Le verbe clean au present simple
- I clean
- You clean
- He/she/it cleans
- We clean
- You clean
- They clean
Le verbe clean au present continuous
- I am cleaning
- You are cleaning
- He/she/it is cleaning
- We are cleaning
- You are cleaning
- They are cleaning
Le verbe clean past simple
- I cleaned
- You cleaned
- He/she/it cleaned
- We cleaned
- You cleaned
- They cleaned
Le verbe clean au past continuous
- I was cleaning
- You were cleaning
- He/she/it was cleaning
- We were cleaning
- You were cleaning
- They were cleaning
Le verbe clean au present perfect
- I have cleaned
- You have cleaned
- He/she/it has cleaned
- We have cleaned
- You have cleaned
- They have cleaned
Le verbe clean au present perfect continuous
- I have been cleaning
- You have been cleaning
- He/she/it has been cleaning
- We have been cleaning
- You have been cleaning
- They have been cleaning
Le verbe clean au past perfect
- I had cleaned
- You had cleaned
- He/she/it had cleaned
- We had cleaned
- You had cleaned
- They had cleaned
Le verbe clean au past perfect continuous
- I had been cleaning
- You had been cleaning
- He/she/it had been cleaning
- We had been cleaning
- You had been cleaning
- They had been cleaning
Le verbe clean au future
- I will clean
- You will clean
- He/she/it will clean
- We will clean
- You will clean
- They will clean
Le verbe clean au future continuous
- I will be cleaning
- You will be cleaning
- He/she/it will be cleaning
- We will be cleaning
- You will be cleaning
- They will be cleaning
Le verbe clean au future perfect
- I will have cleaned
- You will have cleaned
- He/she/it will have cleaned
- We will have cleaned
- You will have cleaned
- They will have cleaned
Le verbe clean au future perfect continuous
- I will have been cleaning
- You will have been cleaning
- He/she/it will have been cleaning
- We will have been cleaning
- You will have been cleaning
- They will have been cleaning
Conjugaison du verbe clean au conditionnel
Le verbe clean au conditional present
- I would clean
- You would clean
- He/she/it would clean
- We would clean
- You would clean
- They would clean
Le verbe clean au conditional present continuous
- I would be cleaning
- You would be cleaning
- He/she/it would be cleaning
- We would be cleaning
- You would be cleaning
- They would be cleaning
Le verbe clean au conditional perfect
- I would have cleaned
- You would have cleaned
- He/she/it would have cleaned
- We would have cleaned
- You would have cleaned
- They would have cleaned
Le verbe clean au conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been cleaning
- You would have been cleaning
- He/she/it would have been cleaning
- We would have been cleaning
- You would have been cleaning
- They would have been cleaning
Les autres formes
L’infinitif de clean
- to clean
Participe présent de clean
- cleaning
Participe passé de clean
- cleaned
L’impératif de clean
- clean
- let’s clean
Définition de clean en anglais
Que veut dire le verbe clean en anglais ?
Le Cambridge Dictionary donne plusieurs définitions du verbe clean.
Penchons-nous sur les principales :
1. To remove dirt from something
I clean my house every day. → Je nettoie ma maison tous les jours.
2. To become clean
This table cleans quite easily. → Cette table se nettoie assez facilement.
3. To prepare a fish or an animal killed for food by removing the inside parts of it that are not eaten
My mother cleaned the fish before frying it up for dinner. → Ma mère a vidé le poisson avant de le faire frire pour le dîner.
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Les phrasal verbs avec clean en anglais
Rappel : les phrasal verbs (ou “verbes à particule”) sont des verbes qui, lorsqu’ils sont suivis d’un autre mot (la particule), voient leur sens initial complété ou modifié.
Il existe deux phrasal verbs formés sur le verbe clean :
- clean somebody out → mettre quelqu’un sur la paille (familier)
- clean something out → ranger, vider (un endroit)
- clean up → arrêter la drogue (familier)
- clean up → faire du ménage
- clean up → rafler la mise, se faire plein d’argent (familier)
Les synonymes de clean en anglais
En fonction du contexte, vous pouvez remplacer le verbe to clean par l’un des verbes suivants :
- bathe → laver
- brush → brosser
- cleanse → nettoyer, purger
- dust → passer le chiffon
- mop → nettoyer, laver, passer la serpillère
- scrub → nettoyer, récurer
- wash → laver
- wipe → essuyer
Expressions avec clean en anglais
- clean driving licence (anglais britannique) → permis de conduire avec tous ses points
- clean energy → énergie non-polluante
- clean getaway → évasion réussie (familier)
- clean somebody’s clock (anglais américain) → mettre une raclée à quelqu’un (familier)
- clean sweep → victoire écrasante, victoire haut la main
- clean up your act → se reprendre en main, se racheter une conduite (familier)
- clean-shaven (adjectif) → rasé de près
- come clean → tout avouer, cracher le morceau (familier)
- keep your nose clean → se tenir à carreau (familier)
- show somebody a clean pair of heels → semer, distancer (familier, s’emploie dans une compétition sportive)
- spring clean (anglais britannique) → nettoyage de printemps
- to get a clean checkup → être déclaré en bonne santé
- wipe the slate clean → faire table rase du passé, passer l’éponge