Borrowed from Latin dictāre. Compare Old French ditier.
dicter
| infinitive | simple | dicter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dictant /dik.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dicté /dik.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dicte /dikt/ |
dictes /dikt/ |
dicte /dikt/ |
dictons /dik.tɔ̃/ |
dictez /dik.te/ |
dictent /dikt/ |
| imperfect | dictais /dik.tɛ/ |
dictais /dik.tɛ/ |
dictait /dik.tɛ/ |
dictions /dik.tjɔ̃/ |
dictiez /dik.tje/ |
dictaient /dik.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dictai /dik.te/ |
dictas /dik.ta/ |
dicta /dik.ta/ |
dictâmes /dik.tam/ |
dictâtes /dik.tat/ |
dictèrent /dik.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | dicterai /dik.tə.ʁe/ |
dicteras /dik.tə.ʁa/ |
dictera /dik.tə.ʁa/ |
dicterons /dik.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
dicterez /dik.tə.ʁe/ |
dicteront /dik.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dicterais /dik.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dicterais /dik.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dicterait /dik.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dicterions /dik.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dicteriez /dik.tə.ʁje/ |
dicteraient /dik.tə.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 | dicte /dikt/ |
dictes /dikt/ |
dicte /dikt/ |
dictions /dik.tjɔ̃/ |
dictiez /dik.tje/ |
dictent /dikt/ |
| imperfect2 | dictasse /dik.tas/ |
dictasses /dik.tas/ |
dictât /dik.ta/ |
dictassions /dik.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
dictassiez /dik.ta.sje/ |
dictassent /dik.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dicte /dikt/ |
— | dictons /dik.tɔ̃/ |
dictez /dik.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
dicter
dicter m (plural dicterau)
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| dicter | ddicter | nicter | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||