léviter

See also: leviter

French

Etymology

From Latin levāre (“to lift”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

léviter

1. (usually intransitive) to levitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of léviter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	léviter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lévitant /le.vi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lévité /le.vi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lévite /le.vit/	lévites /le.vit/	lévite /le.vit/	lévitons /le.vi.tɔ̃/	lévitez /le.vi.te/	lévitent /le.vit/
	imperfect	lévitais /le.vi.tɛ/	lévitais /le.vi.tɛ/	lévitait /le.vi.tɛ/	lévitions /le.vi.tjɔ̃/	lévitiez /le.vi.tje/	lévitaient /le.vi.tɛ/
	past historic2	lévitai /le.vi.te/	lévitas /le.vi.ta/	lévita /le.vi.ta/	lévitâmes /le.vi.tam/	lévitâtes /le.vi.tat/	lévitèrent /le.vi.tɛʁ/
	future	léviterai /le.vi.tʁe/	léviteras /le.vi.tʁa/	lévitera /le.vi.tʁa/	léviterons /le.vi.tʁɔ̃/	léviterez /le.vi.tʁe/	léviteront /le.vi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	léviterais /le.vi.tʁɛ/	léviterais /le.vi.tʁɛ/	léviterait /le.vi.tʁɛ/	léviterions /le.vi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	léviteriez /le.vi.tə.ʁje/	léviteraient /le.vi.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	lévite /le.vit/	lévites /le.vit/	lévite /le.vit/	lévitions /le.vi.tjɔ̃/	lévitiez /le.vi.tje/	lévitent /le.vit/
	imperfect2	lévitasse /le.vi.tas/	lévitasses /le.vi.tas/	lévitât /le.vi.ta/	lévitassions /le.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/	lévitassiez /le.vi.ta.sje/	lévitassent /le.vi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lévite /le.vit/	—	lévitons /le.vi.tɔ̃/	lévitez /le.vi.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

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