candidater

French

Etymology

candidat +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Verb

candidater

1. To stand (put oneself forward) as a candidate

Conjugation

Conjugation of candidater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	candidater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	candidatant /kɑ̃.di.da.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		candidaté /kɑ̃.di.da.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	candidate /kɑ̃.di.dat/	candidates /kɑ̃.di.dat/	candidate /kɑ̃.di.dat/	candidatons /kɑ̃.di.da.tɔ̃/	candidatez /kɑ̃.di.da.te/	candidatent /kɑ̃.di.dat/
	imperfect	candidatais /kɑ̃.di.da.tɛ/	candidatais /kɑ̃.di.da.tɛ/	candidatait /kɑ̃.di.da.tɛ/	candidations /kɑ̃.di.da.tjɔ̃/	candidatiez /kɑ̃.di.da.tje/	candidataient /kɑ̃.di.da.tɛ/
	past historic2	candidatai /kɑ̃.di.da.te/	candidatas /kɑ̃.di.da.ta/	candidata /kɑ̃.di.da.ta/	candidatâmes /kɑ̃.di.da.tam/	candidatâtes /kɑ̃.di.da.tat/	candidatèrent /kɑ̃.di.da.tɛʁ/
	future	candidaterai /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁe/	candidateras /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁa/	candidatera /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁa/	candidaterons /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁɔ̃/	candidaterez /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁe/	candidateront /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	candidaterais /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁɛ/	candidaterais /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁɛ/	candidaterait /kɑ̃.di.da.tʁɛ/	candidaterions /kɑ̃.di.da.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	candidateriez /kɑ̃.di.da.tə.ʁje/	candidateraient /kɑ̃.di.da.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	candidate /kɑ̃.di.dat/	candidates /kɑ̃.di.dat/	candidate /kɑ̃.di.dat/	candidations /kɑ̃.di.da.tjɔ̃/	candidatiez /kɑ̃.di.da.tje/	candidatent /kɑ̃.di.dat/
	imperfect2	candidatasse /kɑ̃.di.da.tas/	candidatasses /kɑ̃.di.da.tas/	candidatât /kɑ̃.di.da.ta/	candidatassions /kɑ̃.di.da.ta.sjɔ̃/	candidatassiez /kɑ̃.di.da.ta.sje/	candidatassent /kɑ̃.di.da.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	candidate /kɑ̃.di.dat/	—	candidatons /kɑ̃.di.da.tɔ̃/	candidatez /kɑ̃.di.da.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).