Borrowed from New Latin gravitāre, from Latin gravitas.
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graviter
| infinitive | simple | graviter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gravitant /ɡʁa.vi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gravité /ɡʁa.vi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravites /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravitons /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/ |
gravitez /ɡʁa.vi.te/ |
gravitent /ɡʁa.vit/ |
| imperfect | gravitais /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ |
gravitais /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ |
gravitait /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ |
gravitions /ɡʁa.vi.tjɔ̃/ |
gravitiez /ɡʁa.vi.tje/ |
gravitaient /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gravitai /ɡʁa.vi.te/ |
gravitas /ɡʁa.vi.ta/ |
gravita /ɡʁa.vi.ta/ |
gravitâmes /ɡʁa.vi.tam/ |
gravitâtes /ɡʁa.vi.tat/ |
gravitèrent /ɡʁa.vi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | graviterai /ɡʁa.vi.tʁe/ |
graviteras /ɡʁa.vi.tʁa/ |
gravitera /ɡʁa.vi.tʁa/ |
graviterons /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɔ̃/ |
graviterez /ɡʁa.vi.tʁe/ |
graviteront /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | graviterais /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ |
graviterais /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ |
graviterait /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ |
graviterions /ɡʁa.vi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
graviteriez /ɡʁa.vi.tə.ʁje/ |
graviteraient /ɡʁa.vi.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 | gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravites /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravitions /ɡʁa.vi.tjɔ̃/ |
gravitiez /ɡʁa.vi.tje/ |
gravitent /ɡʁa.vit/ |
| imperfect2 | gravitasse /ɡʁa.vi.tas/ |
gravitasses /ɡʁa.vi.tas/ |
gravitât /ɡʁa.vi.ta/ |
gravitassions /ɡʁa.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
gravitassiez /ɡʁa.vi.ta.sje/ |
gravitassent /ɡʁa.vi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
— | gravitons /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/ |
gravitez /ɡʁa.vi.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). | |||||||
From gravis (“heavy”) + -ter.
graviter (comparative gravius, superlative gravissimē)