participer

Inherited from Middle French participer, borrowed from Latin participāre.

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ti.si.pe/

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participer (intransitive)

1. to participate

   Il participe à la cérémonie.

   He is participating in the ceremony.

2. to donate

   Merci de participer aux frais d’entretien des sanitaires

   Thank you for donating to the maintenance of this sanitary facility.

3. to share (emotions)

   Elle a dit qu’elle particpait à ma douleur.

   She said she shared my pain.

4. (dated) to have some of the characteristics of; to partake of

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

participer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of participō

Borrowed from Latin participāre, present active infinitive of participō.

participer

1. (with à) to participate

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: participer