dicter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dictāre, present active infinitive of dictō. Compare Old French ditier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dik.te/

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Verb

dicter

1. to dictate

Conjugation

Conjugation of dicter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dicter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dictant /dik.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dicté /dik.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dicte /dikt/	dictes /dikt/	dicte /dikt/	dictons /dik.tɔ̃/	dictez /dik.te/	dictent /dikt/
	imperfect	dictais /dik.tɛ/	dictais /dik.tɛ/	dictait /dik.tɛ/	dictions /dik.tjɔ̃/	dictiez /dik.tje/	dictaient /dik.tɛ/
	past historic2	dictai /dik.te/	dictas /dik.ta/	dicta /dik.ta/	dictâmes /dik.tam/	dictâtes /dik.tat/	dictèrent /dik.tɛʁ/
	future	dicterai /dik.tə.ʁe/	dicteras /dik.tə.ʁa/	dictera /dik.tə.ʁa/	dicterons /dik.tə.ʁɔ̃/	dicterez /dik.tə.ʁe/	dicteront /dik.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dicterais /dik.tə.ʁɛ/	dicterais /dik.tə.ʁɛ/	dicterait /dik.tə.ʁɛ/	dicterions /dik.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	dicteriez /dik.tə.ʁje/	dicteraient /dik.tə.ʁɛ/
(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	dicte /dikt/	dictes /dikt/	dicte /dikt/	dictions /dik.tjɔ̃/	dictiez /dik.tje/	dictent /dikt/
	imperfect2	dictasse /dik.tas/	dictasses /dik.tas/	dictât /dik.ta/	dictassions /dik.ta.sjɔ̃/	dictassiez /dik.ta.sje/	dictassent /dik.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dicte /dikt/	—	dictons /dik.tɔ̃/	dictez /dik.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

• dictaphone
• dictateur
• dictatorial
• dictature
• dictée
• diktat (historical), dictat (1990 spelling)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• crédit
• décrit
• direct

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dicter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dictō

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Welsh

Etymology

From dig +‎ der.

Noun

dicter m (plural dicterau)

1. anger, wrath

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dicter	ddicter	nicter	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.