comploter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/
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Verb
comploter
- to plot, especially something illegal or immoral
Conjugation
Conjugation of comploter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | comploter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | complotant /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | comploté /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
complotes /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
complotons /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɔ̃/ |
complotez /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/ |
complotent /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
| imperfect | complotais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/ |
complotais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/ |
complotait /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/ |
complotions /kɔ̃.plɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
complotiez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tje/ |
complotaient /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | complotai /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/ |
complotas /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta/ |
complota /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta/ |
complotâmes /kɔ̃.plɔ.tam/ |
complotâtes /kɔ̃.plɔ.tat/ |
complotèrent /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | comploterai /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁe/ |
comploteras /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁa/ |
complotera /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁa/ |
comploterons /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
comploterez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁe/ |
comploteront /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | comploterais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɛ/ |
comploterais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɛ/ |
comploterait /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɛ/ |
comploterions /kɔ̃.plɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
comploteriez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
comploteraient /kɔ̃.plɔ.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 | complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
complotes /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
complotions /kɔ̃.plɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
complotiez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tje/ |
complotent /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | complotasse /kɔ̃.plɔ.tas/ |
complotasses /kɔ̃.plɔ.tas/ |
complotât /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta/ |
complotassions /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
complotassiez /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta.sje/ |
complotassent /kɔ̃.plɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/ |
— | complotons /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɔ̃/ |
complotez /kɔ̃.plɔ.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “comploter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.