comater

French

Etymology

From coma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ma.te/

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Verb

comater

1. (informal) to veg out, to veg, to doze (in particular when drunk)

Conjugation

Conjugation of comater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	comater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	comatant /kɔ.ma.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		comaté /kɔ.ma.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	comate /kɔ.mat/	comates /kɔ.mat/	comate /kɔ.mat/	comatons /kɔ.ma.tɔ̃/	comatez /kɔ.ma.te/	comatent /kɔ.mat/
	imperfect	comatais /kɔ.ma.tɛ/	comatais /kɔ.ma.tɛ/	comatait /kɔ.ma.tɛ/	comations /kɔ.ma.tjɔ̃/	comatiez /kɔ.ma.tje/	comataient /kɔ.ma.tɛ/
	past historic2	comatai /kɔ.ma.te/	comatas /kɔ.ma.ta/	comata /kɔ.ma.ta/	comatâmes /kɔ.ma.tam/	comatâtes /kɔ.ma.tat/	comatèrent /kɔ.ma.tɛʁ/
	future	comaterai /kɔ.ma.tʁe/	comateras /kɔ.ma.tʁa/	comatera /kɔ.ma.tʁa/	comaterons /kɔ.ma.tʁɔ̃/	comaterez /kɔ.ma.tʁe/	comateront /kɔ.ma.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	comaterais /kɔ.ma.tʁɛ/	comaterais /kɔ.ma.tʁɛ/	comaterait /kɔ.ma.tʁɛ/	comaterions /kɔ.ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	comateriez /kɔ.ma.tə.ʁje/	comateraient /kɔ.ma.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	comate /kɔ.mat/	comates /kɔ.mat/	comate /kɔ.mat/	comations /kɔ.ma.tjɔ̃/	comatiez /kɔ.ma.tje/	comatent /kɔ.mat/
	imperfect2	comatasse /kɔ.ma.tas/	comatasses /kɔ.ma.tas/	comatât /kɔ.ma.ta/	comatassions /kɔ.ma.ta.sjɔ̃/	comatassiez /kɔ.ma.ta.sje/	comatassent /kɔ.ma.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	comate /kɔ.mat/	—	comatons /kɔ.ma.tɔ̃/	comatez /kɔ.ma.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: 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).

Related terms

• comateux