fêter
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See also: feter
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French fester. By surface analysis, fête + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fêter
- (transitive) to celebrate (an event)
- Il va fêter son quarantième anniversaire demain.
- He is going to celebrate his 40th anniversary tomorrow.
- (transitive) to celebrate (somebody)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of fêter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | fêter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | fêtant /fɛ.tɑ̃/ or /fe.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | fêté /fɛ.te/ or /fe.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | fête /fɛt/ |
fêtes /fɛt/ |
fête /fɛt/ |
fêtons /fɛ.tɔ̃/ or /fe.tɔ̃/ |
fêtez /fɛ.te/ or /fe.te/ |
fêtent /fɛt/ |
imperfect | fêtais /fɛ.tɛ/ or /fe.tɛ/ |
fêtais /fɛ.tɛ/ or /fe.tɛ/ |
fêtait /fɛ.tɛ/ or /fe.tɛ/ |
fêtions /fɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /fe.tjɔ̃/ |
fêtiez /fɛ.tje/ or /fe.tje/ |
fêtaient /fɛ.tɛ/ or /fe.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | fêtai /fɛ.te/ or /fe.te/ |
fêtas /fɛ.ta/ or /fe.ta/ |
fêta /fɛ.ta/ or /fe.ta/ |
fêtâmes /fɛ.tam/ or /fe.tam/ |
fêtâtes /fɛ.tat/ or /fe.tat/ |
fêtèrent /fɛ.tɛʁ/ or /fe.tɛʁ/ | |
future | fêterai /fɛ.tʁe/ or /fe.tʁe/ |
fêteras /fɛ.tʁa/ or /fe.tʁa/ |
fêtera /fɛ.tʁa/ or /fe.tʁa/ |
fêterons /fɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fe.tʁɔ̃/ |
fêterez /fɛ.tʁe/ or /fe.tʁe/ |
fêteront /fɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | fêterais /fɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fe.tʁɛ/ |
fêterais /fɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fe.tʁɛ/ |
fêterait /fɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fe.tʁɛ/ |
fêterions /fɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fêteriez /fɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /fe.tə.ʁje/ |
fêteraient /fɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fe.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 | fête /fɛt/ |
fêtes /fɛt/ |
fête /fɛt/ |
fêtions /fɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /fe.tjɔ̃/ |
fêtiez /fɛ.tje/ or /fe.tje/ |
fêtent /fɛt/ |
imperfect2 | fêtasse /fɛ.tas/ or /fe.tas/ |
fêtasses /fɛ.tas/ or /fe.tas/ |
fêtât /fɛ.ta/ or /fe.ta/ |
fêtassions /fɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fêtassiez /fɛ.ta.sje/ or /fe.ta.sje/ |
fêtassent /fɛ.tas/ or /fe.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | fête /fɛt/ |
— | fêtons /fɛ.tɔ̃/ or /fe.tɔ̃/ |
fêtez /fɛ.te/ or /fe.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]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fêter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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