attribuer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁi.bɥe/

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Verb

attribuer

1. to grant, to award
2. to give credit to, to recognize
3. to attribute to, to ascribe to
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun, s'attribuer) to take the credit for, to give oneself priority over others

Conjugation

Conjugation of attribuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attribuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attribuant /a.tʁi.bɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attribué /a.tʁi.bɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribues /a.tʁi.by/	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribuons /a.tʁi.bɥɔ̃/	attribuez /a.tʁi.bɥe/	attribuent /a.tʁi.by/
	imperfect	attribuais /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/	attribuais /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/	attribuait /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/	attribuions /a.tʁi.by.jɔ̃/	attribuiez /a.tʁi.by.je/	attribuaient /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/
	past historic2	attribuai /a.tʁi.bɥe/	attribuas /a.tʁi.bɥa/	attribua /a.tʁi.bɥa/	attribuâmes /a.tʁi.bɥam/	attribuâtes /a.tʁi.bɥat/	attribuèrent /a.tʁi.bɥɛʁ/
	future	attribuerai /a.tʁi.by.ʁe/	attribueras /a.tʁi.by.ʁa/	attribuera /a.tʁi.by.ʁa/	attribuerons /a.tʁi.by.ʁɔ̃/	attribuerez /a.tʁi.by.ʁe/	attribueront /a.tʁi.by.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attribuerais /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/	attribuerais /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/	attribuerait /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/	attribuerions /a.tʁi.by.ʁjɔ̃/	attribueriez /a.tʁi.by.ʁje/	attribueraient /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/
(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	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribues /a.tʁi.by/	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribuions /a.tʁi.by.jɔ̃/	attribuiez /a.tʁi.by.je/	attribuent /a.tʁi.by/
	imperfect2	attribuasse /a.tʁi.bɥas/	attribuasses /a.tʁi.bɥas/	attribuât /a.tʁi.bɥa/	attribuassions /a.tʁi.bɥa.sjɔ̃/	attribuassiez /a.tʁi.bɥa.sje/	attribuassent /a.tʁi.bɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	—	attribuons /a.tʁi.bɥɔ̃/	attribuez /a.tʁi.bɥe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → Romanian: atribui

Further reading

• “attribuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.