vanter
Danish edit
Noun edit
vanter c
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French vanter, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās. Compare Italian vantare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vanter
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of vanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | vanter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | vantant /vɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | vanté /vɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | vante /vɑ̃t/ |
vantes /vɑ̃t/ |
vante /vɑ̃t/ |
vantons /vɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
vantez /vɑ̃.te/ |
vantent /vɑ̃t/ |
imperfect | vantais /vɑ̃.tɛ/ |
vantais /vɑ̃.tɛ/ |
vantait /vɑ̃.tɛ/ |
vantions /vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
vantiez /vɑ̃.tje/ |
vantaient /vɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | vantai /vɑ̃.te/ |
vantas /vɑ̃.ta/ |
vanta /vɑ̃.ta/ |
vantâmes /vɑ̃.tam/ |
vantâtes /vɑ̃.tat/ |
vantèrent /vɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
future | vanterai /vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
vanteras /vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
vantera /vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
vanterons /vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
vanterez /vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
vanteront /vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | vanterais /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
vanterais /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
vanterait /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
vanterions /vɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vanteriez /vɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
vanteraient /vɑ̃.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 | vante /vɑ̃t/ |
vantes /vɑ̃t/ |
vante /vɑ̃t/ |
vantions /vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
vantiez /vɑ̃.tje/ |
vantent /vɑ̃t/ |
imperfect2 | vantasse /vɑ̃.tas/ |
vantasses /vɑ̃.tas/ |
vantât /vɑ̃.ta/ |
vantassions /vɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
vantassiez /vɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
vantassent /vɑ̃.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | vante /vɑ̃t/ |
— | vantons /vɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
vantez /vɑ̃.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). |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “vanter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
vanter m
Old French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās.
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
vanter
- to boast
- c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
- La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
senefie la vainne gloire
qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
Et la destre, que senefie ?
Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]- The left, according to history
Represents vainglory
Which comes from false hypocrisy
And the right, what does that represent?
Charity, which does not
boast about its good work
- The left, according to history
Conjugation edit
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of vanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | vanter | avoir vanté | |||||
gerund | en vantant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | vantant | ||||||
past participle | vanté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | vant | vantes | vante | vantons | vantez | vantent |
imperfect | vantoie, vanteie, vantoe, vanteve | vantoies, vanteies, vantoes, vanteves | vantoit, vanteit, vantot, vanteve | vantiiens, vantiens | vantiiez, vantiez | vantoient, vanteient, vantoent, vantevent | |
preterite | vantai | vantas | vanta | vantames | vantastes | vanterent | |
future | vanterai | vanteras | vantera | vanterons | vanteroiz, vantereiz, vanterez | vanteront | |
conditional | vanteroie, vantereie | vanteroies, vantereies | vanteroit, vantereit | vanteriiens, vanteriens | vanteriiez, vanteriez | vanteroient, vantereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | vant | vanz | vant | vantons | vantez | vantent |
imperfect | vantasse | vantasses | vantast | vantissons, vantissiens | vantissoiz, vantissez, vantissiez | vantassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | vante | — | vantons | vantez | — |
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
vanter (third-person singular forms only)
- (of the wind) to blow
Descendants edit
- French: venter