Se marier Conjugation in French
se marier means “to get married” in English, and it is a verb French learners meet early and use often. This page gives you the complete conjugation of se marier — every tense, every person, the gerund and the past participle — with notes, examples, common mistakes and a quiz. Here is the verb in a natural sentence: “Je me marie en juin à Paris.” — “I get married in June in Paris.” Learning the forms on this page first, before you try to use the verb in conversation, saves you from guessing later: French spelling and endings change with the person and the tense, and se marier is no exception. Work through the tables one tense at a time, say each form aloud, and then test yourself with the quiz at the end.
Quick facts
- Infinitive: se marier
- English: to get married
- Verb type: Reflexive -er verb
- Irregular in: — (regular in every tense)
- Gerund: en mariant
- Past participle: marié
- Auxiliary: être (all perfect tenses are formed with être + the past participle)
- Reflexive: yes — the reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, nous, vous, se) goes before the verb in most tenses. The tables below show the bare verb form exactly as the verified tables give it; the examples add the pronoun, as in “Je me marie en juin à Paris”.
Pronunciation is not listed on this page: the verified tables do not include IPA for se marier, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one.
Full conjugation tables
Every form below comes from VerbFlow’s verified conjugation tables for se marier. Learn the present tense first, then the passé composé and the imperfect, and add the remaining tenses one at a time.
Present indicative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | marie |
| tu | maries |
| il/elle | marie |
| nous | marions |
| vous | mariez |
| ils/elles | marient |
Passé simple
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | mariai |
| tu | marias |
| il/elle | maria |
| nous | mariâmes |
| vous | mariâtes |
| ils/elles | marièrent |
Imperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | mariais |
| tu | mariais |
| il/elle | mariait |
| nous | mariions |
| vous | mariiez |
| ils/elles | mariaient |
Future
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | marierai |
| tu | marieras |
| il/elle | mariera |
| nous | marierons |
| vous | marierez |
| ils/elles | marieront |
Conditional
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | marierais |
| tu | marierais |
| il/elle | marierait |
| nous | marierions |
| vous | marieriez |
| ils/elles | marieraient |
Present perfect (passé composé)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | suis marié |
| tu | es marié |
| il/elle | est marié |
| nous | sommes marié |
| vous | êtes marié |
| ils/elles | sont marié |
Pluperfect (plus-que-parfait)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | étais marié |
| tu | étais marié |
| il/elle | était marié |
| nous | étions marié |
| vous | étiez marié |
| ils/elles | étaient marié |
Future perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | serai marié |
| tu | seras marié |
| il/elle | sera marié |
| nous | serons marié |
| vous | serez marié |
| ils/elles | seront marié |
Conditional perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | serais marié |
| tu | serais marié |
| il/elle | serait marié |
| nous | serions marié |
| vous | seriez marié |
| ils/elles | seraient marié |
Present subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | marie |
| tu | maries |
| il/elle | marie |
| nous | mariions |
| vous | mariiez |
| ils/elles | marient |
Imperfect subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| je | mariasse |
| tu | mariasses |
| il/elle | mariât |
| nous | mariassions |
| vous | mariassiez |
| ils/elles | mariassent |
Imperative (affirmative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tu | marie |
| nous | marions |
| vous | mariez |
Imperative (negative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tu | marie |
| nous | marions |
| vous | mariez |
Gerund and past participle
| Form | French |
|---|---|
| Gerund | en mariant |
| Past participle | marié |
When to use each tense
Present indicative
The present indicative is used for habits, facts and things happening now. For example: “Je me marie en juin à Paris.” — “I get married in June in Paris.”
Passé simple
The passé simple is used for completed actions in the past, mainly in written and literary French. For example: “Tu te marias en juin à Paris.” — “You got married in June in Paris one day.”
Imperfect
The imperfect is used for ongoing or habitual actions in the past, and background description. For example: “Il se mariait en juin à Paris quand j’étais jeune.” — “He used to get married in June in Paris.”
Future
The future is used for what will happen, predictions and promises. For example: “Nous nous marierons en juin à Paris.” — “We will get married in June in Paris tomorrow.”
Conditional
The conditional is used for what would happen, polite requests and hypothetical situations. For example: “Vous vous marieriez en juin à Paris.” — “You would get married in June in Paris if you could.”
Present perfect (passé composé)
The present perfect (passé composé) is used for recent past actions and completed events. With se marier it is formed with être + the past participle marié. For example: “Ils se sont marié en juin à Paris hier.” — “They have got married in June in Paris.”
Pluperfect (plus-que-parfait)
The pluperfect (plus-que-parfait) is used for an action completed before another past action. For example: “Je m'étais marié en juin à Paris avant la fête.” — “I had got married in June in Paris before the party.”
Future perfect
The future perfect is used for what will have happened by a point in the future. For example: “Tu te seras marié en juin à Paris.” — “You will have got married in June in Paris by tomorrow evening.”
Conditional perfect
The conditional perfect is used for what would have happened in a different past. For example: “Il se serait marié en juin à Paris.” — “He would have got married in June in Paris if he had been able to.”
Present subjunctive
The present subjunctive is used for wishes, doubts, emotions and opinions after que. For example: “Il faut que je me marie en juin à Paris.” — “It is important that I get married in June in Paris.”
Imperfect subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive is used for the past subjunctive: wishes and hypotheticals about the past, mainly in formal writing. For example: “Il fallait que je me mariasse en juin à Paris.” — “It was important that I get married in June in Paris.”
Imperative (affirmative)
The imperative (affirmative) is used for direct commands and instructions. For example: “Ne te marie pas en juin à Paris !” — “Do not get married in June in Paris!”
Imperative (negative)
The imperative (negative) is used for prohibitions and negative commands. For example: “Ne te marie pas en juin à Paris !” — “Do not get married in June in Paris!”
Gerund and past participle
The gerund is en mariant — “while getting married” — used after en to say how something happens. The past participle is marié, used with être for the perfect tenses, as in suis marié.
Example sentences
Ten natural sentences with se marier, covering different tenses and persons. Say each one aloud, then cover the French and try to produce it from the English.
- “Je me marie en juin à Paris.” — “I get married in June in Paris.”
- “Tu te maries en juin à Paris.” — “You get married in June in Paris.”
- “Il se mariait en juin à Paris.” — “He used to get married in June in Paris.”
- “Nous nous marierons en juin à Paris.” — “We will get married in June in Paris tomorrow.”
- “Je me marierais en juin à Paris.” — “I would get married in June in Paris if I could.”
- “Tu t'es marié en juin à Paris.” — “You have got married in June in Paris.”
- “Il s'était marié en juin à Paris.” — “He had got married in June in Paris before the party.”
- “Nous nous serons marié en juin à Paris.” — “We will have got married in June in Paris by tomorrow evening.”
- “Il faut que je me marie en juin à Paris.” — “It is important that I get married in June in Paris.”
- “Ne te marie pas en juin à Paris !” — “Do not get married in June in Paris!”
Common mistakes
1. Using the infinitive instead of a conjugated form
✗ Wrong: “Je se marier en juin à Paris.”
✓ Right: “Je me marie en juin à Paris.”
The infinitive se marier never takes a subject. After je you need the conjugated present form marie.
2. Confusing se marier with divorcer
✗ Wrong: “Je me marie après dix ans de mariage.” (meant as “divorcer”)
✓ Right: “Je me marie en juin à Paris.”
se marier means “to get married”; divorcer means “to divorce”. Keep the two verbs apart by their meaning, not by their sound.
3. Using avoir for the passé composé
✗ Wrong: “J’ai marié en juin à Paris.”
✓ Right: “Je me suis marié en juin à Paris.”
With se marier the passé composé is formed with être, not avoir: suis marié.
4. Using the indicative after a subjunctive trigger
✗ Wrong: “Il faut que je marie en juin à Paris.”
✓ Right: “Il faut que je me marie en juin à Paris.”
After il faut que French needs the subjunctive, so use marie here, not the indicative marie.
5. Dropping the reflexive pronoun
✗ Wrong: “Je marie en juin à Paris.”
✓ Right: “Je me marie en juin à Paris.”
se marier is reflexive: the pronoun (me for je) is part of the verb. Without it the sentence means something else, or nothing at all.
Quiz: test yourself
What is the je form of se marier in the Present indicative?
- A) mariez
- B) maries
- C) marient
- D) marie
What is the ils/elles form of se marier in the Present indicative?
- A) marient
- B) marions
- C) maries
- D) mariez
What is the il/elle form of se marier in the Passé simple?
- A) mariâtes
- B) mariai
- C) marièrent
- D) maria
What is the nous form of se marier in the Imperfect?
- A) mariions
- B) mariait
- C) mariiez
- D) mariais
What is the tu form of se marier in the Future?
- A) marierons
- B) mariera
- C) marieras
- D) marierez
What is the je form of se marier in the Conditional?
- A) marieriez
- B) marierait
- C) marierions
- D) marierais
What is the il/elle form of se marier in the Present perfect (passé composé)?
- A) suis marié
- B) sommes marié
- C) es marié
- D) est marié
What is the vous form of se marier in the Pluperfect (plus-que-parfait)?
- A) étiez marié
- B) étaient marié
- C) était marié
- D) étais marié
What is the gerund of se marier?
- A) marié
- B) en mariant
- C) marie
- D) marierai
What is the past participle of se marier?
- A) marie
- B) mariais
- C) marié
- D) en mariant
Answer key
- D) marie — the je form of se marier in the present indicative is marie.
- A) marient — the ils/elles form of se marier in the present indicative is marient.
- D) maria — the il/elle form of se marier in the passé simple is maria.
- A) mariions — the nous form of se marier in the imperfect is mariions.
- C) marieras — the tu form of se marier in the future is marieras.
- D) marierais — the je form of se marier in the conditional is marierais.
- D) est marié — the il/elle form of se marier in the present perfect (passé composé) is est marié.
- A) étiez marié — the vous form of se marier in the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait) is étiez marié.
- B) en mariant — the gerund of se marier is en mariant; it is used after en for actions in progress.
- C) marié — the past participle of se marier is marié; perfect tenses use être + marié.
Frequently asked questions
What does se marier mean in English?
se marier means “to get married”. You use it in everyday situations like the examples on this page — for example, “Je me marie en juin à Paris.” (“I get married in June in Paris.”). It is a core everyday verb, so its present-tense forms are worth learning first.
Is se marier regular or irregular?
se marier is regular: its endings follow the standard -er pattern in every tense. The gerund is en mariant and the past participle is marié.
What are the gerund and past participle of se marier?
The gerund is en mariant — use it after en for actions in progress. The past participle is marié — use it with être for the perfect tenses, as in suis marié.
What is the difference between se marier and divorcer?
se marier means “to get married”, while divorcer means “to divorce”. They are easy to mix up because they appear in similar situations, but their meanings are different. If you are unsure, check the full conjugation page for divorcer and compare the meanings in context.
How do I say “I get married” in French?
Say “Je me marie en juin à Paris.” — “I get married in June in Paris.” The je form of the present is marie, and it is the form you will use most often.
How to learn se marier
Start with the present tense: marie, maries, marie, marions, mariez, marient. Say them in order every day for a week, then add the passé composé — suis marié — and the imperfect — mariais. Next, learn the future (marierai) and the conditional (marierais), which share the same stem. Finally, tackle the subjunctive (marie) and the imperative (marie). Write one sentence of your own in each tense, using the examples above as models, and check every form against the tables. When you can produce all six persons of the present without looking, move on to the present-tense quiz.
Related pages
- se marier in the present tense — the full table and uses for this verb in the present tense.
- se marier examples and quiz — more example sentences and practice questions for this verb.
- French verbs — the full hub of French conjugation pages.
- French present tense guide — how this tense works for regular verbs.
- Divorcer conjugation — another French verb to practise with.
- Spanish verbs — the full hub of Spanish conjugation pages.
- Verb Conjugator — practise se marier with the interactive tool.
- Verb Quiz — practise se marier with the interactive tool.
- Reflexive Verb Conjugator — practise reflexive verbs with the interactive tool.
- VerbFlow home — back to the start.