prétendre
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pretendre, from Old French pretendre, a borrowing from Latin praetendere.
Pronunciation
Verb
prétendre
- to claim, to allege
- to expect, to consider necessary
- (intransitive) to aim at, to set one's sights on [with à]
- (reflexive) to claim
- (Louisiana) to pretend
Usage notes
Conjugation
Conjugation of prétendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | prétendre | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | prétendant /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | prétendu /pʁe.tɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | prétends /pʁe.tɑ̃/ |
prétends /pʁe.tɑ̃/ |
prétend /pʁe.tɑ̃/ |
prétendons /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
prétendez /pʁe.tɑ̃.de/ |
prétendent /pʁe.tɑ̃d/ |
imperfect | prétendais /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
prétendais /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
prétendait /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
prétendions /pʁe.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
prétendiez /pʁe.tɑ̃.dje/ |
prétendaient /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | prétendis /pʁe.tɑ̃.di/ |
prétendis /pʁe.tɑ̃.di/ |
prétendit /pʁe.tɑ̃.di/ |
prétendîmes /pʁe.tɑ̃.dim/ |
prétendîtes /pʁe.tɑ̃.dit/ |
prétendirent /pʁe.tɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
future | prétendrai /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
prétendras /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
prétendra /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
prétendrons /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
prétendrez /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
prétendront /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | prétendrais /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
prétendrais /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
prétendrait /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
prétendrions /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
prétendriez /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
prétendraient /pʁe.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(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 | prétende /pʁe.tɑ̃d/ |
prétendes /pʁe.tɑ̃d/ |
prétende /pʁe.tɑ̃d/ |
prétendions /pʁe.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
prétendiez /pʁe.tɑ̃.dje/ |
prétendent /pʁe.tɑ̃d/ |
imperfect2 | prétendisse /pʁe.tɑ̃.dis/ |
prétendisses /pʁe.tɑ̃.dis/ |
prétendît /pʁe.tɑ̃.di/ |
prétendissions /pʁe.tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
prétendissiez /pʁe.tɑ̃.di.sje/ |
prétendissent /pʁe.tɑ̃.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | prétends /pʁe.tɑ̃/ |
— | prétendons /pʁe.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
prétendez /pʁe.tɑ̃.de/ |
— | |
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: pretenderen
- → German: prätendieren
- → Romanian: pretinde
Further reading
- “prétendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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