vanter

Danish

Noun

vanter c

1. indefinite plural of vante

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vanter, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās. Compare Italian vantare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.te/

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Verb

vanter

1. to praise, to vaunt
2. (reflexive) to boast, brag

   Tu te vantes beaucoup trop !

   You brag way too much!

Conjugation

Conjugation of vanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vanter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vantant /vɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vanté /vɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vante /vɑ̃t/	vantes /vɑ̃t/	vante /vɑ̃t/	vantons /vɑ̃.tɔ̃/	vantez /vɑ̃.te/	vantent /vɑ̃t/
	imperfect	vantais /vɑ̃.tɛ/	vantais /vɑ̃.tɛ/	vantait /vɑ̃.tɛ/	vantions /vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	vantiez /vɑ̃.tje/	vantaient /vɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	vantai /vɑ̃.te/	vantas /vɑ̃.ta/	vanta /vɑ̃.ta/	vantâmes /vɑ̃.tam/	vantâtes /vɑ̃.tat/	vantèrent /vɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	vanterai /vɑ̃.tʁe/	vanteras /vɑ̃.tʁa/	vantera /vɑ̃.tʁa/	vanterons /vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	vanterez /vɑ̃.tʁe/	vanteront /vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vanterais /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/	vanterais /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/	vanterait /vɑ̃.tʁɛ/	vanterions /vɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	vanteriez /vɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	vanteraient /vɑ̃.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	vante /vɑ̃t/	vantes /vɑ̃t/	vante /vɑ̃t/	vantions /vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	vantiez /vɑ̃.tje/	vantent /vɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	vantasse /vɑ̃.tas/	vantasses /vɑ̃.tas/	vantât /vɑ̃.ta/	vantassions /vɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	vantassiez /vɑ̃.ta.sje/	vantassent /vɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vante /vɑ̃t/	—	vantons /vɑ̃.tɔ̃/	vantez /vɑ̃.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

• vantard

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rêvant

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

vanter m

1. indefinite plural of vante

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās.

Alternative forms

• vaunter

Verb

vanter

1. to boast
   • c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
     senefie la vainne gloire
     qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
     Et la destre, que senefie ?
     Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
     pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]

     The left, according to history
     Represents vainglory
     Which comes from false hypocrisy
     And the right, what does that represent?
     Charity, which does not
     boast about its good work

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of vanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		vanter			avoir vanté
gerund		en vantant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		vantant
past participle		vanté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	vant	vantes	vante	vantons	vantez	vantent
	imperfect	vantoie, vanteie, vantoe, vanteve	vantoies, vanteies, vantoes, vanteves	vantoit, vanteit, vantot, vanteve	vantiiens, vantiens	vantiiez, vantiez	vantoient, vanteient, vantoent, vantevent
	preterite	vantai	vantas	vanta	vantames	vantastes	vanterent
	future	vanterai	vanteras	vantera	vanterons	vanteroiz, vantereiz, vanterez	vanteront
	conditional	vanteroie, vantereie	vanteroies, vantereies	vanteroit, vantereit	vanteriiens, vanteriens	vanteriiez, vanteriez	vanteroient, vantereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	vant	vanz	vant	vantons	vantez	vantent
	imperfect	vantasse	vantasses	vantast	vantissons, vantissiens	vantissoiz, vantissez, vantissiez	vantassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	vante	—	vantons	vantez	—

Descendants

• French: vanter
• → Middle English: vaunten
  • English: vaunt
  • Scots: vaunt

Etymology 2

vant (“wind”) +‎ -er.

Verb

vanter (third-person singular forms only)

1. (of the wind) to blow

Descendants

• French: venter