féliciter
See also: feliciter
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Latin fēlicitāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editféliciter
- to congratulate
Conjugation
editConjugation of féliciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | féliciter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | félicitant /fe.li.si.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | félicité /fe.li.si.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | félicite /fe.li.sit/ |
félicites /fe.li.sit/ |
félicite /fe.li.sit/ |
félicitons /fe.li.si.tɔ̃/ |
félicitez /fe.li.si.te/ |
félicitent /fe.li.sit/ |
| imperfect | félicitais /fe.li.si.tɛ/ |
félicitais /fe.li.si.tɛ/ |
félicitait /fe.li.si.tɛ/ |
félicitions /fe.li.si.tjɔ̃/ |
félicitiez /fe.li.si.tje/ |
félicitaient /fe.li.si.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | félicitai /fe.li.si.te/ |
félicitas /fe.li.si.ta/ |
félicita /fe.li.si.ta/ |
félicitâmes /fe.li.si.tam/ |
félicitâtes /fe.li.si.tat/ |
félicitèrent /fe.li.si.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | féliciterai /fe.li.si.tʁe/ |
féliciteras /fe.li.si.tʁa/ |
félicitera /fe.li.si.tʁa/ |
féliciterons /fe.li.si.tʁɔ̃/ |
féliciterez /fe.li.si.tʁe/ |
féliciteront /fe.li.si.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | féliciterais /fe.li.si.tʁɛ/ |
féliciterais /fe.li.si.tʁɛ/ |
féliciterait /fe.li.si.tʁɛ/ |
féliciterions /fe.li.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
féliciteriez /fe.li.si.tə.ʁje/ |
féliciteraient /fe.li.si.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 | félicite /fe.li.sit/ |
félicites /fe.li.sit/ |
félicite /fe.li.sit/ |
félicitions /fe.li.si.tjɔ̃/ |
félicitiez /fe.li.si.tje/ |
félicitent /fe.li.sit/ |
| imperfect2 | félicitasse /fe.li.si.tas/ |
félicitasses /fe.li.si.tas/ |
félicitât /fe.li.si.ta/ |
félicitassions /fe.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
félicitassiez /fe.li.si.ta.sje/ |
félicitassent /fe.li.si.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | félicite /fe.li.sit/ |
— | félicitons /fe.li.si.tɔ̃/ |
félicitez /fe.li.si.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: feliciteren
- → Romanian: felicita
Further reading
edit- “féliciter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.