constater
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From constat, borrowed from Latin cōnstat, the third-person singular present active indicative of cōnstō. Cf. also coûter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ̃s.ta.te/
- Homophones: constatai, constaté, constatée, constatées, constatés, constatez
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Verb
[edit]constater
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of constater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | constater | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | constatant /kɔ̃s.ta.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | constaté /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
constates /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/ |
constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ |
constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
imperfect | constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ |
constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ |
constatait /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ |
constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/ |
constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/ |
constataient /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | constatai /kɔ̃s.ta.te/ |
constatas /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/ |
constata /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/ |
constatâmes /kɔ̃s.ta.tam/ |
constatâtes /kɔ̃s.ta.tat/ |
constatèrent /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛʁ/ | |
future | constaterai /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/ |
constateras /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/ |
constatera /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/ |
constaterons /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/ |
constaterez /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/ |
constateront /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ |
constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ |
constaterait /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/ |
constaterions /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
constateriez /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁje/ |
constateraient /kɔ̃s.ta.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 | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
constates /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/ |
constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/ |
constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
imperfect2 | constatasse /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/ |
constatasses /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/ |
constatât /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/ |
constatassions /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
constatassiez /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sje/ |
constatassent /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | constate /kɔ̃s.tat/ |
— | constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/ |
constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: constatar
- → Danish: konstatere
- → English: constate
- → German: konstatieren
- → Italian: constatare
- → Portuguese: constatar
- → Russian: констатировать (konstatirovatʹ)
- → Swedish: konstatera
- → Spanish: constatar
Further reading
[edit]- “constater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.