diligenter
French
Etymology
diligent + -er
Pronunciation
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Verb
diligenter
- to expedite
Conjugation
Conjugation of diligenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | diligenter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | diligentant /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | diligenté /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | diligentes /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | diligentons /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | diligentez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/ | diligentent /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ |
imperfect | diligentais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | diligentais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | diligentait /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | diligentions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | diligentiez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tje/ | diligentaient /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | diligentai /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/ | diligentas /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta/ | diligenta /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta/ | diligentâmes /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tam/ | diligentâtes /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tat/ | diligentèrent /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
future | diligenterai /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/ | diligenteras /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/ | diligentera /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/ | diligenterons /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | diligenterez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/ | diligenteront /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | diligenterais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | diligenterais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | diligenterait /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | diligenterions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | diligenteriez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | diligenteraient /di.li.ʒɑ̃.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 | diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | diligentes /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | diligentions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | diligentiez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tje/ | diligentent /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ |
imperfect2 | diligentasse /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | diligentasses /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | diligentât /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta/ | diligentassions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | diligentassiez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta.sje/ | diligentassent /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/ | — | diligentons /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | diligentez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.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). |
Further reading
- “diligenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From dīligēns + -ter, from the present active participle of dīligō (“I esteem, I love”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diː.liˈɡen.ter/, [d̪iːlʲɪˈɡɛn̪t̪ɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.liˈd͡ʒen.ter/, [d̪iliˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪er]
Adverb
dīligenter (comparative dīligentius, superlative dīligentissimē)
- diligently, carefully
Related terms
- dīligēns
- dīligō
References
- “diligenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diligenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diligenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
- to attend carefully: diligenter attendere (aliquid)
- after mature deliberation: re diligenter considerata, perpensa
- to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
- a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
- to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully: rationem diligenter conficere
- to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.