impatienter

French

Etymology

From impatient +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/

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Verb

impatienter

1. (transitive) to make, become impatient
2. (reflexive) to be losing patience, to get restless

   Synonym: perdre patience

Conjugation

Conjugation of impatienter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	impatienter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	impatientant /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		impatienté /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	impatiente /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	impatientes /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	impatiente /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	impatientons /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	impatientez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/	impatientent /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/
	imperfect	impatientais /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/	impatientais /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/	impatientait /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/	impatientions /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	impatientiez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tje/	impatientaient /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	impatientai /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/	impatientas /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta/	impatienta /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta/	impatientâmes /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tam/	impatientâtes /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tat/	impatientèrent /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	impatienterai /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁe/	impatienteras /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁa/	impatientera /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁa/	impatienterons /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	impatienterez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁe/	impatienteront /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	impatienterais /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	impatienterais /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	impatienterait /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	impatienterions /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	impatienteriez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	impatienteraient /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.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	impatiente /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	impatientes /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	impatiente /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	impatientions /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	impatientiez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tje/	impatientent /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	impatientasse /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tas/	impatientasses /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tas/	impatientât /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta/	impatientassions /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	impatientassiez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta.sje/	impatientassent /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	impatiente /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/	—	impatientons /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	impatientez /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.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).

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

in- (“un-”) +‎ patienter (“suffering, patient”) or impatiēns (“impatient”) +‎ -ter

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.pa.tiˈen.ter/, [ɪmpät̪iˈɛn̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.pat.t͡siˈen.ter/, [impät̪ː͡s̪iˈɛn̪t̪er]

Adverb

impatienter (comparative impatientius, superlative impatientissimē)

1. with impatience, impatiently

References

• “impatienter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impatienter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers