corroborer
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin corrōborāre (“strengthen; corroborate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁe/
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Verb
corroborer
- to corroborate
Conjugation
Conjugation of corroborer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | corroborer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | corroborant /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | corroboré /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | corrobore /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
corrobores /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
corrobore /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
corroborons /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/ |
corroborez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁe/ |
corroborent /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
| imperfect | corroborais /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɛ/ |
corroborais /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɛ/ |
corroborait /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɛ/ |
corroborions /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
corroboriez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁje/ |
corroboraient /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | corroborai /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁe/ |
corroboras /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁa/ |
corrobora /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁa/ |
corroborâmes /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁam/ |
corroborâtes /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁat/ |
corroborèrent /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | corroborerai /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
corroboreras /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
corroborera /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
corroborerons /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
corroborerez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
corroboreront /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | corroborerais /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
corroborerais /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
corroborerait /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
corroborerions /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
corroboreriez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
corroboreraient /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | corrobore /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
corrobores /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
corrobore /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
corroborions /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
corroboriez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁje/ |
corroborent /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | corroborasse /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁas/ |
corroborasses /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁas/ |
corroborât /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁa/ |
corroborassions /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
corroborassiez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁa.sje/ |
corroborassent /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | corrobore /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔʁ/ |
— | corroborons /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/ |
corroborez /kɔ.ʁɔ.bɔ.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “corroborer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
corrōborer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of corrōborō