attribuer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin attribuere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁi.bɥe/

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Verb

attribuer

1. to grant, to award
2. to give credit to, to recognize
3. to attribute to, to ascribe to
4. (pronominal, s'attribuer) to take the credit for, to give oneself priority over others

Conjugation

Conjugation of attribuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attribuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attribuant /a.tʁi.bɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attribué /a.tʁi.bɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribues /a.tʁi.by/	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribuons /a.tʁi.bɥɔ̃/	attribuez /a.tʁi.bɥe/	attribuent /a.tʁi.by/
	imperfect	attribuais /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/	attribuais /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/	attribuait /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/	attribuions /a.tʁi.by.jɔ̃/	attribuiez /a.tʁi.by.je/	attribuaient /a.tʁi.bɥɛ/
	past historic2	attribuai /a.tʁi.bɥe/	attribuas /a.tʁi.bɥa/	attribua /a.tʁi.bɥa/	attribuâmes /a.tʁi.bɥam/	attribuâtes /a.tʁi.bɥat/	attribuèrent /a.tʁi.bɥɛʁ/
	future	attribuerai /a.tʁi.by.ʁe/	attribueras /a.tʁi.by.ʁa/	attribuera /a.tʁi.by.ʁa/	attribuerons /a.tʁi.by.ʁɔ̃/	attribuerez /a.tʁi.by.ʁe/	attribueront /a.tʁi.by.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attribuerais /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/	attribuerais /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/	attribuerait /a.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/	attribuerions /a.tʁi.by.ʁjɔ̃/	attribueriez /a.tʁi.by.ʁje/	attribueraient /a.tʁi.by.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	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribues /a.tʁi.by/	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	attribuions /a.tʁi.by.jɔ̃/	attribuiez /a.tʁi.by.je/	attribuent /a.tʁi.by/
	imperfect2	attribuasse /a.tʁi.bɥas/	attribuasses /a.tʁi.bɥas/	attribuât /a.tʁi.bɥa/	attribuassions /a.tʁi.bɥa.sjɔ̃/	attribuassiez /a.tʁi.bɥa.sje/	attribuassent /a.tʁi.bɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attribue /a.tʁi.by/	—	attribuons /a.tʁi.bɥɔ̃/	attribuez /a.tʁi.bɥe/	—
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

• attribution
• attributif

Related terms

• attribut
• contribuer
• distribuer

Descendants

• → Romanian: atribui

Further reading

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