considérer

See also: considerer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French consyderer, from Old French considerer, borrowed from Latin cōnsīderāre (“to examine, look at, inspect; to consider; to investigate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁe/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: considérai, considéré, considérée, considérées, considérés, considérez

Verb

considérer

1. (transitive) to consider (to look at)
2. (reciprocal reflexive) to consider (to look at) each other
3. (transitive) to consider (to think about)

   Synonym: prendre en considération

4. to consider, to think of [+ comme (object) = as]
5. (reciprocal reflexive) to consider each other, to think of each other [+ comme (object) = as]

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written considérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written considèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of considérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	considérer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	considérant /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		considéré /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	considère /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	considères /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	considère /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	considérons /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɔ̃/	considérez /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁe/	considèrent /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/
	imperfect	considérais /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɛ/	considérais /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɛ/	considérait /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɛ/	considérions /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁjɔ̃/	considériez /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁje/	considéraient /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	considérai /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁe/	considéras /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁa/	considéra /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁa/	considérâmes /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁam/	considérâtes /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁat/	considérèrent /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɛʁ/
	future	considèrerai or considérerai /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁe/	considèreras or considéreras /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁa/	considèrera or considérera /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁa/	considèrerons or considérerons /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	considèrerez or considérerez /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁe/	considèreront or considéreront /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	considèrerais or considérerais /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁɛ/	considèrerais or considérerais /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁɛ/	considèrerait or considérerait /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁɛ/	considèrerions or considérerions /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	considèreriez or considéreriez /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁə.ʁje/	considèreraient or considéreraient /kɔ̃.si.dɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.si.de.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	considère /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	considères /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	considère /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	considérions /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁjɔ̃/	considériez /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁje/	considèrent /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/
	imperfect2	considérasse /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁas/	considérasses /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁas/	considérât /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁa/	considérassions /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	considérassiez /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁa.sje/	considérassent /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	considère /kɔ̃.si.dɛʁ/	—	considérons /kɔ̃.si.de.ʁɔ̃/	considérez /kɔ̃.si.de.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).

Derived terms

• tout bien considéré
• reconsidérer

Related terms

• considérable
• considération

Further reading

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