fonder
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[edit] English
[edit] Adjective
fonder
- comparative form of fond: more fond
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Old French fonder and its variants, from Latin fundō.
[edit] Pronunciation
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[edit] Verb
fonder
- to found
- Son vœu le plus cher est de fonder un foyer.
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of fonder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | fonder | avoir fondé | |||||
| gerund | en fondant | en ayant fondé | |||||
| present participle | fondant | ||||||
| past participle | fondé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | fonde | fondes | fonde | fondons | fondez | fondent |
| imperfect | fondais | fondais | fondait | fondions | fondiez | fondaient | |
| past historic1 | fondai | fondas | fonda | fondâmes | fondâtes | fondèrent | |
| future | fonderai | fonderas | fondera | fonderons | fonderez | fonderont | |
| conditional | fonderais | fonderais | fonderait | fonderions | fonderiez | fonderaient | |
| 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 | fonde | fondes | fonde | fondions | fondiez | fondent |
| imperfect1 | fondasse | fondasses | fondât | fondassions | fondassiez | fondassent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | fonde | — | fondons | fondez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
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[edit] Noun
fonder
- indefinite plural of fond