faciliter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin facilitō. Cognate with Italian facilitare; Spanish and Portuguese facilitar; and Romanian facilita.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.si.li.te/
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Verb
faciliter
- to facilitate
Conjugation
Conjugation of faciliter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | faciliter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | facilitant /fa.si.li.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | facilité /fa.si.li.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | facilite /fa.si.lit/ | facilites /fa.si.lit/ | facilite /fa.si.lit/ | facilitons /fa.si.li.tɔ̃/ | facilitez /fa.si.li.te/ | facilitent /fa.si.lit/ |
| imperfect | facilitais /fa.si.li.tɛ/ | facilitais /fa.si.li.tɛ/ | facilitait /fa.si.li.tɛ/ | facilitions /fa.si.li.tjɔ̃/ | facilitiez /fa.si.li.tje/ | facilitaient /fa.si.li.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | facilitai /fa.si.li.te/ | facilitas /fa.si.li.ta/ | facilita /fa.si.li.ta/ | facilitâmes /fa.si.li.tam/ | facilitâtes /fa.si.li.tat/ | facilitèrent /fa.si.li.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | faciliterai /fa.si.li.tʁe/ | faciliteras /fa.si.li.tʁa/ | facilitera /fa.si.li.tʁa/ | faciliterons /fa.si.li.tʁɔ̃/ | faciliterez /fa.si.li.tʁe/ | faciliteront /fa.si.li.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | faciliterais /fa.si.li.tʁɛ/ | faciliterais /fa.si.li.tʁɛ/ | faciliterait /fa.si.li.tʁɛ/ | faciliterions /fa.si.li.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | faciliteriez /fa.si.li.tə.ʁje/ | faciliteraient /fa.si.li.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 | facilite /fa.si.lit/ | facilites /fa.si.lit/ | facilite /fa.si.lit/ | facilitions /fa.si.li.tjɔ̃/ | facilitiez /fa.si.li.tje/ | facilitent /fa.si.lit/ |
| imperfect2 | facilitasse /fa.si.li.tas/ | facilitasses /fa.si.li.tas/ | facilitât /fa.si.li.ta/ | facilitassions /fa.si.li.ta.sjɔ̃/ | facilitassiez /fa.si.li.ta.sje/ | facilitassent /fa.si.li.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | facilite /fa.si.lit/ | — | facilitons /fa.si.li.tɔ̃/ | facilitez /fa.si.li.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
- “faciliter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Adverb
faciliter (comparative facilius, superlative facilissimē)
- easily, without trouble or difficulty
- Synonym: facile
- Antonyms: difficilē, difficiliter, difficulter
References
- “faciliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norman
Etymology
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Verb
faciliter
- (Jersey) to facilitate
Derived terms
- faciliteux, facilit'rêsse (“facilitator”)