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lutter
lutter
Danish
Adjective
lutter (neuter lutter, e-form lutter)
Etymology 2
See lut (“lute”).
Noun
lutter c
- plural indefinite of lut
French
Etymology
From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter, from Vulgar Latin luctāre, from Latin luctārī, present active infinitive of luctor (“struggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”). Compare Portuguese lutar, Spanish luchar, Catalan lluitar, Italian lottare, Romanian lupta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ly.te/
Verb
lutter
- (intransitive) to struggle, to fight
- Lutter contre la discrimination - To fight/struggle against discrimation
- (sports) to wrestle
Conjugation
Conjugation of lutter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | lutter | avoir lutté | |||||
| gerund | en luttant | en ayant lutté | |||||
| present participle | luttant /ly.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | lutté /ly.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 | lutte /lyt/ |
luttes /lyt/ |
lutte /lyt/ |
luttons /ly.tɔ̃/ |
luttez /ly.te/ |
luttent /lyt/ |
| imperfect | luttais /ly.tɛ/ |
luttais /ly.tɛ/ |
luttait /ly.tɛ/ |
luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/ |
luttiez /ly.tje/ |
luttaient /ly.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | luttai /ly.te/ |
luttas /ly.ta/ |
lutta /ly.ta/ |
luttâmes /ly.tam/ |
luttâtes /ly.tat/ |
luttèrent /ly.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | lutterai /ly.tʁe/ |
lutteras /ly.tʁa/ |
luttera /ly.tʁa/ |
lutterons /ly.tʁɔ̃/ |
lutterez /ly.tʁe/ |
lutteront /ly.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | lutterais /ly.tʁɛ/ |
lutterais /ly.tʁɛ/ |
lutterait /ly.tʁɛ/ |
lutterions /ly.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lutteriez /ly.tə.ʁje/ |
lutteraient /ly.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 | lutte /lyt/ |
luttes /lyt/ |
lutte /lyt/ |
luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/ |
luttiez /ly.tje/ |
luttent /lyt/ |
| imperfect1 |
luttasse /ly.tas/ |
luttasses /ly.tas/ |
luttât /ly.ta/ |
luttassions /ly.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
luttassiez /ly.ta.sje/ |
luttassent /ly.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 | – | |
| — | lutte /lyt/ |
— | luttons /ly.tɔ̃/ |
luttez /ly.te/ |
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