Inherited from Old Catalan respondre, from Late Latin respondere, from Latin respondēre. The modern Catalan conjugations reflect contamination from the unrelated pondre (“lay, set”).
respondre (first-person singular present responc, first-person singular preterite responguí, past participle respost); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/
From Old French respondre.
respondre
From Old Occitan respondre, from Late Latin respondere, from Latin respondēre.
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respondre
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
From Late Latin respondere, from Latin respondēre.
respondre
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | respondre | avoir respondu, respons | |||||
| gerund | en respondant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | respondant | ||||||
| past participle | respondu, respons | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | respoing, respon | responz | respont | respondons | respondez | respondent |
| imperfect | respondoie, respondeie | respondoies, respondeies | respondoit, respondeit | respondiiens, respondiens | respondiiez, respondiez | respondoient, respondeient | |
| preterite | respondi | respondis | respondié, respost | respondimes | respondistes | respondierent | |
| future | respondrai | respondras | respondra | respondrons | respondroiz, respondreiz, respondrez | respondront | |
| conditional | respondroie, respondreie | respondroies, respondreies | respondroit, respondreit | respondriiens, respondriens | respondriiez, respondriez | respondroient, respondreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | respoigne, responde | respoignes, respondes | respoigne, responde | respoignons, respondons | respoignez, respondez | respoignent, respondent |
| imperfect | respondisse | respondisses | respondist | respondissons, respondissiens | respondissoiz, respondissez, respondissiez | respondissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | respont | — | respondons | respondez | — | ||