attenter

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

attenter

1. comparative degree of attent

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attentāre, attento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tɑ̃.te/
• Homophones: attentai, attenté, attentée, attentées, attentés, attentez

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Verb

attenter

1. (+ à) to assault

Conjugation

Conjugation of attenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attentant /a.tɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attenté /a.tɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attente /a.tɑ̃t/	attentes /a.tɑ̃t/	attente /a.tɑ̃t/	attentons /a.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/	attentez /a.tɑ̃.te/	attentent /a.tɑ̃t/
	imperfect	attentais /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/	attentais /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/	attentait /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/	attentions /a.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	attentiez /a.tɑ̃.tje/	attentaient /a.tɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	attentai /a.tɑ̃.te/	attentas /a.tɑ̃.ta/	attenta /a.tɑ̃.ta/	attentâmes /a.tɑ̃.tam/	attentâtes /a.tɑ̃.tat/	attentèrent /a.tɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	attenterai /a.tɑ̃.tʁe/	attenteras /a.tɑ̃.tʁa/	attentera /a.tɑ̃.tʁa/	attenterons /a.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	attenterez /a.tɑ̃.tʁe/	attenteront /a.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attenterais /a.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	attenterais /a.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	attenterait /a.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	attenterions /a.tɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	attenteriez /a.tɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	attenteraient /a.tɑ̃.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	attente /a.tɑ̃t/	attentes /a.tɑ̃t/	attente /a.tɑ̃t/	attentions /a.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	attentiez /a.tɑ̃.tje/	attentent /a.tɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	attentasse /a.tɑ̃.tas/	attentasses /a.tɑ̃.tas/	attentât /a.tɑ̃.ta/	attentassions /a.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	attentassiez /a.tɑ̃.ta.sje/	attentassent /a.tɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attente /a.tɑ̃t/	—	attentons /a.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/	attentez /a.tɑ̃.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: 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).

Derived terms

• attentat
• attentatoire

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

attenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of attentō

References

• attenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• attenter in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016