collaborer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

collaborer

1. to collaborate

Conjugation

Conjugation of collaborer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	collaborer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	collaborant /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		collaboré /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabores /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collaborons /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/	collaborez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/	collaborent /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/
	imperfect	collaborais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/	collaborais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/	collaborait /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/	collaborions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	collaboriez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁje/	collaboraient /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	collaborai /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/	collaboras /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa/	collabora /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa/	collaborâmes /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁam/	collaborâtes /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁat/	collaborèrent /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	collaborerai /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	collaboreras /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	collaborera /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	collaborerons /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	collaborerez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	collaboreront /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	collaborerais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	collaborerais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	collaborerait /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	collaborerions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	collaboreriez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	collaboreraient /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.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	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabores /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collaborions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	collaboriez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁje/	collaborent /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/
	imperfect2	collaborasse /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁas/	collaborasses /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁas/	collaborât /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa/	collaborassions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	collaborassiez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sje/	collaborassent /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	—	collaborons /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/	collaborez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• collaboration

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

collabōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of collabōrō