attarder

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ tarder. Displaced Old French atargier, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.taʁ.de/

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• Homophones: attardai, attardé, attardée, attardées, attardés, attardez
• Rhymes: -e

Verb

attarder

1. (transitive, rare) to delay; make late
2. (reflexive) to linger; stay late

Conjugation

Conjugation of attarder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attarder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attardant /a.taʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attardé /a.taʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attarde /a.taʁd/	attardes /a.taʁd/	attarde /a.taʁd/	attardons /a.taʁ.dɔ̃/	attardez /a.taʁ.de/	attardent /a.taʁd/
	imperfect	attardais /a.taʁ.dɛ/	attardais /a.taʁ.dɛ/	attardait /a.taʁ.dɛ/	attardions /a.taʁ.djɔ̃/	attardiez /a.taʁ.dje/	attardaient /a.taʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	attardai /a.taʁ.de/	attardas /a.taʁ.da/	attarda /a.taʁ.da/	attardâmes /a.taʁ.dam/	attardâtes /a.taʁ.dat/	attardèrent /a.taʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	attarderai /a.taʁ.də.ʁe/	attarderas /a.taʁ.də.ʁa/	attardera /a.taʁ.də.ʁa/	attarderons /a.taʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	attarderez /a.taʁ.də.ʁe/	attarderont /a.taʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attarderais /a.taʁ.də.ʁɛ/	attarderais /a.taʁ.də.ʁɛ/	attarderait /a.taʁ.də.ʁɛ/	attarderions /a.taʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	attarderiez /a.taʁ.də.ʁje/	attarderaient /a.taʁ.də.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	attarde /a.taʁd/	attardes /a.taʁd/	attarde /a.taʁd/	attardions /a.taʁ.djɔ̃/	attardiez /a.taʁ.dje/	attardent /a.taʁd/
	imperfect2	attardasse /a.taʁ.das/	attardasses /a.taʁ.das/	attardât /a.taʁ.da/	attardassions /a.taʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	attardassiez /a.taʁ.da.sje/	attardassent /a.taʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attarde /a.taʁd/	—	attardons /a.taʁ.dɔ̃/	attardez /a.taʁ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Synonyms

• retarder

Further reading

• “attarder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.