lutter

See also: Lutter

Danish

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /lutər/, [ˈlud̥ɐ]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lūtter (“clean, pure, unmixed”).

Adjective

lutter (neuter lutter, plural and definite singular attributive lutter)

1. sheer, all, nothing but

Etymology 2

See lut (“lute”).

Noun

lutter c

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of lut

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French

Etymology

From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter, from Vulgar Latin luctāre, from Latin luctārī, present active infinitive of luctor (“struggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”). Compare Portuguese lutar, Spanish luchar, Catalan lluitar, Italian lottare, Romanian lupta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly.te/
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Verb

lutter

1. (intransitive) to struggle, to fight

   lutter contre la discrimination ― to fight/struggle against discrimation

2. (sports) to wrestle

Conjugation

Conjugation of lutter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lutter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	luttant /ly.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lutté /ly.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lutte /lyt/	luttes /lyt/	lutte /lyt/	luttons /ly.tɔ̃/	luttez /ly.te/	luttent /lyt/
	imperfect	luttais /ly.tɛ/	luttais /ly.tɛ/	luttait /ly.tɛ/	luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/	luttiez /ly.tje/	luttaient /ly.tɛ/
	past historic2	luttai /ly.te/	luttas /ly.ta/	lutta /ly.ta/	luttâmes /ly.tam/	luttâtes /ly.tat/	luttèrent /ly.tɛʁ/
	future	lutterai /ly.tʁe/	lutteras /ly.tʁa/	luttera /ly.tʁa/	lutterons /ly.tʁɔ̃/	lutterez /ly.tʁe/	lutteront /ly.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lutterais /ly.tʁɛ/	lutterais /ly.tʁɛ/	lutterait /ly.tʁɛ/	lutterions /ly.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	lutteriez /ly.tə.ʁje/	lutteraient /ly.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	lutte /lyt/	luttes /lyt/	lutte /lyt/	luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/	luttiez /ly.tje/	luttent /lyt/
	imperfect2	luttasse /ly.tas/	luttasses /ly.tas/	luttât /ly.ta/	luttassions /ly.ta.sjɔ̃/	luttassiez /ly.ta.sje/	luttassent /ly.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lutte /lyt/	—	luttons /ly.tɔ̃/	luttez /ly.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).

Derived terms

• lutte
• lutteur

Related terms

• inéluctable

See also

• batailler

Further reading

• “lutter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lutter”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), pages 377-378

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lutter m

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) indefinite plural of lutt