compatir
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin compati, and adapted as a fourth-conjugation French verb, as with the related pâtir.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
compatir
- to sympathise, empathise, feel for
Conjugation edit
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of compatir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | compatir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | compatissant /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | compati /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatit /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatissons /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɔ̃/ |
compatissez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.se/ |
compatissent /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
| imperfect | compatissais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/ |
compatissais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/ |
compatissait /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/ |
compatissions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
compatissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sje/ |
compatissaient /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatit /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatîmes /kɔ̃.pa.tim/ |
compatîtes /kɔ̃.pa.tit/ |
compatirent /kɔ̃.pa.tiʁ/ | |
| future | compatirai /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁe/ |
compatiras /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁa/ |
compatira /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁa/ |
compatirons /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
compatirez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁe/ |
compatiront /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | compatirais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/ |
compatirais /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/ |
compatirait /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁɛ/ |
compatirions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
compatiriez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.ʁje/ |
compatiraient /kɔ̃.pa.ti.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 | compatisse /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
compatisses /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
compatisse /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
compatissions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
compatissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sje/ |
compatissent /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | compatisse /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
compatisses /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ |
compatît /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
compatissions /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
compatissiez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sje/ |
compatissent /kɔ̃.pa.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | compatis /kɔ̃.pa.ti/ |
— | compatissons /kɔ̃.pa.ti.sɔ̃/ |
compatissez /kɔ̃.pa.ti.se/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “compatir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.