plébisciter

French

Etymology

From plébiscite +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ple.bi.si.te/

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Verb

plébisciter

1. (transitive) to vote by plebiscite
2. (transitive) to approve overwhelmingly

Conjugation

Conjugation of plébisciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	plébisciter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	plébiscitant /ple.bi.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		plébiscité /ple.bi.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	plébiscite /ple.bi.sit/	plébiscites /ple.bi.sit/	plébiscite /ple.bi.sit/	plébiscitons /ple.bi.si.tɔ̃/	plébiscitez /ple.bi.si.te/	plébiscitent /ple.bi.sit/
	imperfect	plébiscitais /ple.bi.si.tɛ/	plébiscitais /ple.bi.si.tɛ/	plébiscitait /ple.bi.si.tɛ/	plébiscitions /ple.bi.si.tjɔ̃/	plébiscitiez /ple.bi.si.tje/	plébiscitaient /ple.bi.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	plébiscitai /ple.bi.si.te/	plébiscitas /ple.bi.si.ta/	plébiscita /ple.bi.si.ta/	plébiscitâmes /ple.bi.si.tam/	plébiscitâtes /ple.bi.si.tat/	plébiscitèrent /ple.bi.si.tɛʁ/
	future	plébisciterai /ple.bi.si.tʁe/	plébisciteras /ple.bi.si.tʁa/	plébiscitera /ple.bi.si.tʁa/	plébisciterons /ple.bi.si.tʁɔ̃/	plébisciterez /ple.bi.si.tʁe/	plébisciteront /ple.bi.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	plébisciterais /ple.bi.si.tʁɛ/	plébisciterais /ple.bi.si.tʁɛ/	plébisciterait /ple.bi.si.tʁɛ/	plébisciterions /ple.bi.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	plébisciteriez /ple.bi.si.tə.ʁje/	plébisciteraient /ple.bi.si.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	plébiscite /ple.bi.sit/	plébiscites /ple.bi.sit/	plébiscite /ple.bi.sit/	plébiscitions /ple.bi.si.tjɔ̃/	plébiscitiez /ple.bi.si.tje/	plébiscitent /ple.bi.sit/
	imperfect2	plébiscitasse /ple.bi.si.tas/	plébiscitasses /ple.bi.si.tas/	plébiscitât /ple.bi.si.ta/	plébiscitassions /ple.bi.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	plébiscitassiez /ple.bi.si.ta.sje/	plébiscitassent /ple.bi.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	plébiscite /ple.bi.sit/	—	plébiscitons /ple.bi.si.tɔ̃/	plébiscitez /ple.bi.si.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).

Further reading

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