conter

Inherited from Old French conter, from Latin computāre.

IPA^(key): /kõ.te/

conter

1. (Troyen) to count
2. to recount
3. to think
4. to believe

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

Inherited from Old French conter, from Latin computāre. Doublet of compter and computer. Semantical shift from "count" to "recount" via the notion of "enumerate facts, go through facts"; compare the same in English tell.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.te/

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• Homophones: comptai, compté, comptée, comptées, compter, comptés, comptez, comté, comtés, contai, conté, contée, contées, contés, contez

conter

1. to recount (tell a story)

• “conter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• contre, contré
• cornet

From Old Galician-Portuguese contẽer, from Latin continēre.

• IPA^(key):

conter (first-person singular present conteño, first-person singular preterite contiven, past participle contido)
conter (first-person singular present contenho, first-person singular preterite contivem or contive, past participle contido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to contain

• (Anglo-Norman) cunter

From Latin computāre.

conter

1. to tell; to say
2. to recount (tell a story)
3. to add up (count)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: compter
  • French: conter, compter
• Middle English: counten, compt, compten, count, counte, cownt, cownte, cowntone, cowntyn, kownt
  • English: count
  • Scots: coont, count

From Old Galician-Portuguese contẽer, from Latin continēre.

• Hyphenation: con‧ter

conter (first-person singular present contenho, first-person singular preterite contive, past participle contido)

1. to contain, hold, carry
2. to include
3. to restrain

For quotations using this term, see Citations:conter.

• continente
• continência
• contenças
• conteúdo
• ter

From Old French conter, from Latin computō, computare (“compute”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ˈte/

conter

1. to count

   —         —   Conjugation of the verb conter in Walloon   —   Codjowaedje do viebe conter e walon

infinitive	simple	conter
	compound	aveur + past participle
gerund1	simple	contant
	compound	åyant + past participle
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		conté		contêye
		plural		contés		contêyes
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		dji (dj')	ti (t')	i (il) / ele	dji (dj') / nos2	vos	i (il)
(simple tenses)	present	conte	contes	conte	contans	contez	contèt or contnut3
	imperfect	contéve	contéves	contéve	conténs	contîz	contént
	preterite	conta	contas	conta	contîs	contîz	contît
	future	contrè	contrès	contrè	contrans	controz	contront
	conditional	contreu	contreus	contreut	contréns	contrîz	contrént
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of aveur + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of aveur + past participle
	past anterior	preterite indicative of aveur + past participle
	future perfect	future of aveur + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of aveur + past participle
subjunctive		ki dj'	ki t'	k' i (il) / k' ele	ki dj' / ki nos2	ki vos	k' i (il)
(simple tenses)	present	conte	contes	conte	contanxhe	contoxhe	contèxhe or contnuxhe3
	imperfect	contaxhe	contaxhes	contaxhe	conténxhe	contîxhe	conténxhe
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of aveur + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of aveur + past participle
imperative		–	ti	–	dji / nos	vos	–
simple		—	conte!	—	contans!	contez!	—
compound		—	simple imperative of aveur + past participle	—	simple imperative of aveur + past participle	simple imperative of aveur + past participle	—
1 The Walloon gerund is usable only with the preposition tot (Eastern, Southern) or e (Central, Western).
2 The second person plural dji is used in Central and Southern dialects
3 The form -èt/-exhe is used in Eastern and Southern dialects, the form -nut/-nuxhe is used in Central and Western dialects.