intenter

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

intenter

1. (law) to file, bring

Usage notes

Nowadays, used only in the following phrases:

• intenter un procès ― to file a lawsuit
• intenter une accusation contre/à quelqu’un ― to bring an accusation against/to someone

Conjugation

Conjugation of intenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	intenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	intentant /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		intenté /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	intentes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	intentons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/	intentez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/	intentent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/
	imperfect	intentais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/	intentais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/	intentait /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/	intentions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	intentiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tje/	intentaient /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	intentai /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/	intentas /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/	intenta /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/	intentâmes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tam/	intentâtes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tat/	intentèrent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	intenterai /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁe/	intenteras /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁa/	intentera /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁa/	intenterons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	intenterez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁe/	intenteront /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	intenterais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	intenterais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	intenterait /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	intenterions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	intenteriez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	intenteraient /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.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	intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	intentes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	intentions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	intentiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tje/	intentent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	intentasse /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tas/	intentasses /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tas/	intentât /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/	intentassions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	intentassiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta.sje/	intentassent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/	—	intentons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/	intentez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.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

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

Latin

Verb

intenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of intentō