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compéter
compéter
See also: competer
French
Verb
compéter
- (law) To be competent; to have jurisdiction
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written compéter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written compèter-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of compéter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | compéter | avoir compété | |||||
| gerund | en compétant | en ayant compété | |||||
| present participle | compétant /kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | compété /kɔ̃.pe.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 | compète /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
compètes /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
compète /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
compétons /kɔ̃.pe.tɔ̃/ |
compétez /kɔ̃.pe.te/ |
compètent /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
| imperfect | compétais /kɔ̃.pe.tɛ/ |
compétais /kɔ̃.pe.tɛ/ |
compétait /kɔ̃.pe.tɛ/ |
compétions /kɔ̃.pe.tjɔ̃/ |
compétiez /kɔ̃.pe.tje/ |
compétaient /kɔ̃.pe.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | compétai /kɔ̃.pe.te/ |
compétas /kɔ̃.pe.ta/ |
compéta /kɔ̃.pe.ta/ |
compétâmes /kɔ̃.pe.tam/ |
compétâtes /kɔ̃.pe.tat/ |
compétèrent /kɔ̃.pe.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | compèterai or compéterai /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁe/ |
compèteras or compéteras /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁa/ |
compètera or compétera /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁa/ |
compèterons or compéterons /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
compèterez or compéterez /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁe/ |
compèteront or compéteront /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | compèterais or compéterais /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
compèterais or compéterais /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
compèterait or compéterait /kɔ̃.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
compèterions or compéterions /kɔ̃.pɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
compèteriez or compéteriez /kɔ̃.pɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
compèteraient or compéteraient /kɔ̃.pɛ.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 | compète /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
compètes /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
compète /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
compétions /kɔ̃.pe.tjɔ̃/ |
compétiez /kɔ̃.pe.tje/ |
compètent /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
compétasse /kɔ̃.pe.tas/ |
compétasses /kɔ̃.pe.tas/ |
compétât /kɔ̃.pe.ta/ |
compétassions /kɔ̃.pe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
compétassiez /kɔ̃.pe.ta.sje/ |
compétassent /kɔ̃.pe.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 | – | |
| — | compète /kɔ̃.pɛt/ |
— | compétons /kɔ̃.pe.tɔ̃/ |
compétez /kɔ̃.pe.te/ |
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