faciliter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian facilitare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.si.li.te/

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Verb

faciliter

1. (transitive) to facilitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of faciliter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	faciliter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	facilitant /fa.si.li.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		facilité /fa.si.li.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	facilite /fa.si.lit/	facilites /fa.si.lit/	facilite /fa.si.lit/	facilitons /fa.si.li.tɔ̃/	facilitez /fa.si.li.te/	facilitent /fa.si.lit/
	imperfect	facilitais /fa.si.li.tɛ/	facilitais /fa.si.li.tɛ/	facilitait /fa.si.li.tɛ/	facilitions /fa.si.li.tjɔ̃/	facilitiez /fa.si.li.tje/	facilitaient /fa.si.li.tɛ/
	past historic2	facilitai /fa.si.li.te/	facilitas /fa.si.li.ta/	facilita /fa.si.li.ta/	facilitâmes /fa.si.li.tam/	facilitâtes /fa.si.li.tat/	facilitèrent /fa.si.li.tɛʁ/
	future	faciliterai /fa.si.li.tʁe/	faciliteras /fa.si.li.tʁa/	facilitera /fa.si.li.tʁa/	faciliterons /fa.si.li.tʁɔ̃/	faciliterez /fa.si.li.tʁe/	faciliteront /fa.si.li.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	faciliterais /fa.si.li.tʁɛ/	faciliterais /fa.si.li.tʁɛ/	faciliterait /fa.si.li.tʁɛ/	faciliterions /fa.si.li.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	faciliteriez /fa.si.li.tə.ʁje/	faciliteraient /fa.si.li.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	facilite /fa.si.lit/	facilites /fa.si.lit/	facilite /fa.si.lit/	facilitions /fa.si.li.tjɔ̃/	facilitiez /fa.si.li.tje/	facilitent /fa.si.lit/
	imperfect2	facilitasse /fa.si.li.tas/	facilitasses /fa.si.li.tas/	facilitât /fa.si.li.ta/	facilitassions /fa.si.li.ta.sjɔ̃/	facilitassiez /fa.si.li.ta.sje/	facilitassent /fa.si.li.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	facilite /fa.si.lit/	—	facilitons /fa.si.li.tɔ̃/	facilitez /fa.si.li.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).

Related terms

• facilité
• facile

Further reading

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

Latin

Adverb

faciliter (comparative facilius, superlative facilissimē)

1. easily, without trouble or difficulty

   Synonym: facile

   Antonyms: difficilē, difficiliter, difficulter

References

• “faciliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

faciliter

1. (Jersey) to facilitate

Derived terms

• faciliteux, facilit'rêsse (“facilitator”)