vanter
Danish
Noun
vanter c
- indefinite plural of vante
French
Etymology
From Old French vanter, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās. Compare Italian vantare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɑ̃.te/
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Verb
vanter
- to praise, to vaunt
- (reflexive) to boast, brag
- Tu te vantes beaucoup trop !
- You brag way too much!
Conjugation
Conjugation of vanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | vanter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | vantant /vɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | vanté /vɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | vante /vɑ̃t/ | vantes /vɑ̃t/ | vante /vɑ̃t/ | vantons /vɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | vantez /vɑ̃.te/ | vantent /vɑ̃t/ |
imperfect | vantais /vɑ̃.tɛ/ | vantais /vɑ̃.tɛ/ | vantait /vɑ̃.tɛ/ | vantions /vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | vantiez /vɑ̃.tje/ | vantaient /vɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | vantai /vɑ̃.te/ | vantas /vɑ̃.ta/ | vanta /vɑ̃.ta/ | vantâmes /vɑ̃.tam/ | vantâtes /vɑ̃.tat/ | vantèrent /vɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
future | vanterai /vɑ̃.tʁe/ | vanteras /vɑ̃.tʁa/ | vantera /vɑ̃.tʁa/ | vanterons /vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | vanterez /vɑ̃.tʁe/ | vanteront /vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | vanterais /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | vanterais /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | vanterait /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | vanterions /vɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | vanteriez /vɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | vanteraient /vɑ̃.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 | vante /vɑ̃t/ | vantes /vɑ̃t/ | vante /vɑ̃t/ | vantions /vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | vantiez /vɑ̃.tje/ | vantent /vɑ̃t/ |
imperfect2 | vantasse /vɑ̃.tas/ | vantasses /vɑ̃.tas/ | vantât /vɑ̃.ta/ | vantassions /vɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | vantassiez /vɑ̃.ta.sje/ | vantassent /vɑ̃.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | vante /vɑ̃t/ | — | vantons /vɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | vantez /vɑ̃.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). |
Related terms
- vantard
Further reading
- “vanter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- rêvant
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
vanter m
- indefinite plural of vante
Old French
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās.
Alternative forms
- vaunter
Verb
vanter
- to boast
- circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
- La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
senefie la vainne gloire
qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
Et la destre, que senefie ?
Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]- The left, according to history
Represents vainglory
Which comes from false hypocrisy
And the right, what does that represent?
Charity, which does not
boast about its good work
- The left, according to history
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Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of vanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | vanter | avoir vanté | |||||
gerund | en vantant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
present participle | vantant | ||||||
past participle | vanté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses | present | vant | vantes | vante | vantons | vantez | vantent |
imperfect | vantoie, vanteie, vantoe, vanteve | vantoies, vanteies, vantoes, vanteves | vantoit, vanteit, vantot, vanteve | vantiiens, vantiens | vantiiez, vantiez | vantoient, vanteient, vantoent, vantevent | |
preterite | vantai | vantas | vanta | vantames | vantastes | vanterent | |
future | vanterai | vanteras | vantera | vanterons | vanteroiz, vantereiz, vanterez | vanteront | |
conditional | vanteroie, vantereie | vanteroies, vantereies | vanteroit, vantereit | vanteriiens, vanteriens | vanteriiez, vanteriez | vanteroient, vantereient | |
compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses | present | vant | vanz | vant | vantons | vantez | vantent |
imperfect | vantasse | vantasses | vantast | vantissons, vantissiens | vantissoiz, vantissez, vantissiez | vantassent | |
compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | vante | — | vantons | vantez | — |
Descendants
- French: vanter
- → Middle English: vaunten
- English: vaunt
- Scots: vaunt
Etymology 2
vant (“wind”) + -er.
Verb
vanter (third-person singular forms only)
- (of the wind) to blow
Descendants
- French: venter