constater
French
Etymology
From constat, borrowed from Latin cōnstat, the third-person singular present active indicative of cōnstō. Cf. also coûter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃s.ta.te/
- Homophones: constatai, constaté, constatée, constatées, constatés, constatez
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Verb
constater
- to note, notice
- to certify
- to state (que that)
Conjugation
Conjugation of constater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | constater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | constatant /kɔ̃s.ta.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | constaté /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ | constates /kɔ̃s.tat/ | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ | constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/ | constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ | constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
| imperfect | constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ | constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ | constatait /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ | constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/ | constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/ | constataient /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | constatai /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ | constatas /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/ | constata /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/ | constatâmes /kɔ̃s.ta.tam/ | constatâtes /kɔ̃s.ta.tat/ | constatèrent /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | constaterai /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/ | constateras /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/ | constatera /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/ | constaterons /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/ | constaterez /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/ | constateront /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ | constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ | constaterait /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ | constaterions /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | constateriez /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁje/ | constateraient /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ | constates /kɔ̃s.tat/ | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ | constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/ | constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/ | constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
| imperfect2 | constatasse /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/ | constatasses /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/ | constatât /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/ | constatassions /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sjɔ̃/ | constatassiez /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sje/ | constatassent /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ | — | constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/ | constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- constatation
Descendants
- → Catalan: constatar
- → Danish: konstatere
- → English: constate
- → German: konstatieren
- → Italian: constatare
- → Portuguese: constatar
- → Spanish: constatar
Further reading
- “constater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- contraste, contrasté, contrâtes, corsetant, escortant