attenter
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Adjective
attenter
- Comparative form of attent
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin attentāre, attento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.tɑ̃.te/
- Homophones: attentai, attenté, attentée, attentées, attentés, attentez
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Verb
attenter
- (+ à) to assault
Conjugation
Conjugation of attenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | attenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | attentant /a.tɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | attenté /a.tɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | attente /a.tɑ̃t/ | attentes /a.tɑ̃t/ | attente /a.tɑ̃t/ | attentons /a.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | attentez /a.tɑ̃.te/ | attentent /a.tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | attentais /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/ | attentais /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/ | attentait /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/ | attentions /a.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | attentiez /a.tɑ̃.tje/ | attentaient /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | attentai /a.tɑ̃.te/ | attentas /a.tɑ̃.ta/ | attenta /a.tɑ̃.ta/ | attentâmes /a.tɑ̃.tam/ | attentâtes /a.tɑ̃.tat/ | attentèrent /a.tɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | attenterai /a.tɑ̃.tʁe/ | attenteras /a.tɑ̃.tʁa/ | attentera /a.tɑ̃.tʁa/ | attenterons /a.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | attenterez /a.tɑ̃.tʁe/ | attenteront /a.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | attenterais /a.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | attenterais /a.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | attenterait /a.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | attenterions /a.tɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | attenteriez /a.tɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | attenteraient /a.tɑ̃.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 | attente /a.tɑ̃t/ | attentes /a.tɑ̃t/ | attente /a.tɑ̃t/ | attentions /a.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | attentiez /a.tɑ̃.tje/ | attentent /a.tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | attentasse /a.tɑ̃.tas/ | attentasses /a.tɑ̃.tas/ | attentât /a.tɑ̃.ta/ | attentassions /a.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | attentassiez /a.tɑ̃.ta.sje/ | attentassent /a.tɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attente /a.tɑ̃t/ | — | attentons /a.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | attentez /a.tɑ̃.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
- attentat
- attentatoire
Further reading
- “attenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
attenter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of attentō
References
- attenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- attenter in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016