commanditer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

commanditer

1. to commission, finance, sponsor

   Le spectacle a été commandité par la Société XYZ.

   The show was sponsored by the XYZ Corporation.

Conjugation

Conjugation of commanditer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	commanditer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	commanditant /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		commandité /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	commandite /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	commandites /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	commandite /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	commanditons /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɔ̃/	commanditez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.te/	commanditent /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/
	imperfect	commanditais /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛ/	commanditais /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛ/	commanditait /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛ/	commanditions /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tjɔ̃/	commanditiez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tje/	commanditaient /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛ/
	past historic2	commanditai /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.te/	commanditas /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.ta/	commandita /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.ta/	commanditâmes /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tam/	commanditâtes /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tat/	commanditèrent /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛʁ/
	future	commanditerai /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁe/	commanditeras /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁa/	commanditera /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁa/	commanditerons /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁɔ̃/	commanditerez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁe/	commanditeront /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	commanditerais /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁɛ/	commanditerais /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁɛ/	commanditerait /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tʁɛ/	commanditerions /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	commanditeriez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tə.ʁje/	commanditeraient /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.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	commandite /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	commandites /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	commandite /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	commanditions /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tjɔ̃/	commanditiez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tje/	commanditent /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/
	imperfect2	commanditasse /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tas/	commanditasses /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tas/	commanditât /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.ta/	commanditassions /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.ta.sjɔ̃/	commanditassiez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.ta.sje/	commanditassent /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	commandite /kɔ.mɑ̃.dit/	—	commanditons /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɔ̃/	commanditez /kɔ.mɑ̃.di.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “commanditer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.