impatienter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/
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Verb
impatienter
- (transitive) to make, become impatient
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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 Latin) IPA(key): [ɪm.pa.tiˈɛn.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [im.pat̪.t̪͡s̪iˈɛn̪.t̪er]
Adverb
impatienter (comparative impatientius, superlative impatientissimē)
- 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