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participer
participer
French
Verb
participer
- (intransitive) To participate (in = à).
- Il participe à la cérémonie.
- He is participating in the ceremony.
- Il participe à la cérémonie.
- (intransitive) To donate (to = à).
- Merci de participer aux frais d'entretien des sanitaires
- Thank you for donating to the maintenance of this sanitary facility.
- Merci de participer aux frais d'entretien des sanitaires
Conjugation
Conjugation of participer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | participer | avoir participé | |||||
| gerund | en participant | en ayant participé | |||||
| present participle | participant /paʁ.ti.si.pɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | participé /paʁ.ti.si.pe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | participe /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
participes /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
participe /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
participons /paʁ.ti.si.pɔ̃/ |
participez /paʁ.ti.si.pe/ |
participent /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
| imperfect | participais /paʁ.ti.si.pɛ/ |
participais /paʁ.ti.si.pɛ/ |
participait /paʁ.ti.si.pɛ/ |
participions /paʁ.ti.si.pjɔ̃/ |
participiez /paʁ.ti.si.pje/ |
participaient /paʁ.ti.si.pɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | participai /paʁ.ti.si.pe/ |
participas /paʁ.ti.si.pa/ |
participa /paʁ.ti.si.pa/ |
participâmes /paʁ.ti.si.pam/ |
participâtes /paʁ.ti.si.pat/ |
participèrent /paʁ.ti.si.pɛʁ/ |
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| future | participerai /paʁ.ti.si.pʁe/ |
participeras /paʁ.ti.si.pʁa/ |
participera /paʁ.ti.si.pʁa/ |
participerons /paʁ.ti.si.pʁɔ̃/ |
participerez /paʁ.ti.si.pʁe/ |
participeront /paʁ.ti.si.pʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | participerais /paʁ.ti.si.pʁɛ/ |
participerais /paʁ.ti.si.pʁɛ/ |
participerait /paʁ.ti.si.pʁɛ/ |
participerions /paʁ.ti.si.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
participeriez /paʁ.ti.si.pə.ʁje/ |
participeraient /paʁ.ti.si.pʁɛ/ |
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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 | participe /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
participes /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
participe /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
participions /paʁ.ti.si.pjɔ̃/ |
participiez /paʁ.ti.si.pje/ |
participent /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
| imperfect1 |
participasse /paʁ.ti.si.pas/ |
participasses /paʁ.ti.si.pas/ |
participât /paʁ.ti.si.pa/ |
participassions /paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
participassiez /paʁ.ti.si.pa.sje/ |
participassent /paʁ.ti.si.pas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | participe /paʁ.ti.sip/ |
— | participons /paʁ.ti.si.pɔ̃/ |
participez /paʁ.ti.si.pe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin participāre, present active infinitive of participō.
Verb
participer
- (with à) to participate
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of participer
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | participer | avoir participé | |||||
| gerund | en participant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | participant | ||||||
| past participle | participé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | participe | participes | participe | participons | participez | participent |
| imperfect | participois, participoys | participois, participoys | participoit, participoyt | participions, participyons | participiez, participyez | participoient, participoyent | |
| past historic | participa | participas | participa | participasmes | participastes | participerent | |
| future | participerai, participeray | participeras | participera | participerons | participerez | participeront | |
| conditional | participerois, participeroys | participerois, participeroys | participeroit, participeroyt | participerions, participeryons | participeriez, participeryez | participeroient, participeroyent | |
| 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 anterior | 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 ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | participe | participes | participe | participons | participez | participent |
| imperfect | participasse | participasses | participast | participassions | participassiez | participassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | participe | — | participons | participez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: participer