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intenter
intenter
French
Verb
intenter
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | intenter | avoir intenté | |||||
| gerund | en intentant | en ayant intenté | |||||
| present participle | intentant /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | intenté /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | intentai /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/ |
intentas /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/ |
intenta /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/ |
intentâmes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tam/ |
intentâtes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tat/ |
intentèrent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intentes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intentions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
intentiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tje/ |
intentent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
— | intentons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
intentez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/ |
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