comprehendre

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comprehendere.

Verb

comprehendre

1. (chiefly before 1900) Obsolete spelling of comprendre.

Conjugation

• This verb is one of a fairly large group of -re verbs, sometimes called the regular -re verbs (-endre, -ondre, -andre, -erdre and -ordre), that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include vendre and perdre.

   Conjugation of comprehendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		comprehendre			avoir comprehendu
gerund		en comprehendant			en ayant comprehendu
present participle		comprehendant
past participle		comprehendu
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	comprehends	comprehends	comprehend	comprehendons	comprehendez	comprehendent
	imperfect	comprehendais	comprehendais	comprehendait	comprehendions	comprehendiez	comprehendaient
	past historic1	comprehendis	comprehendis	comprehendit	comprehendîmes	comprehendîtes	comprehendirent
	future	comprehendrai	comprehendras	comprehendra	comprehendrons	comprehendrez	comprehendront
	conditional	comprehendrais	comprehendrais	comprehendrait	comprehendrions	comprehendriez	comprehendraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	comprehende	comprehendes	comprehende	comprehendions	comprehendiez	comprehendent
	imperfect1	comprehendisse	comprehendisses	comprehendît	comprehendissions	comprehendissiez	comprehendissent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	comprehends	—	comprehendons	comprehendez	—
1literary tenses