légitimer

See also: legitimer

French

Etymology

From légitime, or borrowed from Medieval Latin legitimāre, from Latin legitimus.

Pronunciation

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Verb

légitimer

1. to legitimize

Conjugation

Conjugation of légitimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	légitimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	légitimant /le.ʒi.ti.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		légitimé /le.ʒi.ti.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	légitime /le.ʒi.tim/	légitimes /le.ʒi.tim/	légitime /le.ʒi.tim/	légitimons /le.ʒi.ti.mɔ̃/	légitimez /le.ʒi.ti.me/	légitiment /le.ʒi.tim/
	imperfect	légitimais /le.ʒi.ti.mɛ/	légitimais /le.ʒi.ti.mɛ/	légitimait /le.ʒi.ti.mɛ/	légitimions /le.ʒi.ti.mjɔ̃/	légitimiez /le.ʒi.ti.mje/	légitimaient /le.ʒi.ti.mɛ/
	past historic2	légitimai /le.ʒi.ti.me/	légitimas /le.ʒi.ti.ma/	légitima /le.ʒi.ti.ma/	légitimâmes /le.ʒi.ti.mam/	légitimâtes /le.ʒi.ti.mat/	légitimèrent /le.ʒi.ti.mɛʁ/
	future	légitimerai /le.ʒi.tim.ʁe/	légitimeras /le.ʒi.tim.ʁa/	légitimera /le.ʒi.tim.ʁa/	légitimerons /le.ʒi.tim.ʁɔ̃/	légitimerez /le.ʒi.tim.ʁe/	légitimeront /le.ʒi.tim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	légitimerais /le.ʒi.tim.ʁɛ/	légitimerais /le.ʒi.tim.ʁɛ/	légitimerait /le.ʒi.tim.ʁɛ/	légitimerions /le.ʒi.ti.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	légitimeriez /le.ʒi.ti.mə.ʁje/	légitimeraient /le.ʒi.tim.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	légitime /le.ʒi.tim/	légitimes /le.ʒi.tim/	légitime /le.ʒi.tim/	légitimions /le.ʒi.ti.mjɔ̃/	légitimiez /le.ʒi.ti.mje/	légitiment /le.ʒi.tim/
	imperfect2	légitimasse /le.ʒi.ti.mas/	légitimasses /le.ʒi.ti.mas/	légitimât /le.ʒi.ti.ma/	légitimassions /le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃/	légitimassiez /le.ʒi.ti.ma.sje/	légitimassent /le.ʒi.ti.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	légitime /le.ʒi.tim/	—	légitimons /le.ʒi.ti.mɔ̃/	légitimez /le.ʒi.ti.me/	—
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

• légitime

Descendants

• → Dutch: legitimeren

Further reading

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