compatir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compati, and adapted as a fourth-conjugation French verb, as with the related pâtir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pa.tiʁ/

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Verb

compatir

1. to sympathise, empathise, feel for

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of compatir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	compatir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	compatissant /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		compati /kɔ̃.pa.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatit /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatissons /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɔ̃/	compatissez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.se/	compatissent /kɔ̃.pa.tis/
	imperfect	compatissais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/	compatissais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/	compatissait /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/	compatissions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sjɔ̃/	compatissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sje/	compatissaient /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatit /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatîmes /kɔ̃.pa.tim/	compatîtes /kɔ̃.pa.tit/	compatirent /kɔ̃.pa.tiʁ/
	future	compatirai /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁe/	compatiras /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁa/	compatira /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁa/	compatirons /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/	compatirez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁe/	compatiront /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	compatirais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/	compatirais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/	compatirait /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/	compatirions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	compatiriez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁje/	compatiraient /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/
(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	compatisse /kɔ̃.pa.tis/	compatisses /kɔ̃.pa.tis/	compatisse /kɔ̃.pa.tis/	compatissions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sjɔ̃/	compatissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sje/	compatissent /kɔ̃.pa.tis/
	imperfect2	compatisse /kɔ̃.pa.tis/	compatisses /kɔ̃.pa.tis/	compatît /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	compatissions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sjɔ̃/	compatissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sje/	compatissent /kɔ̃.pa.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/	—	compatissons /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɔ̃/	compatissez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• compatissant

Related terms

• compassion
• pâtir

Further reading

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