comploter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/

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Verb

comploter

1. to plot, especially something illegal or immoral

Conjugation

Conjugation of comploter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	comploter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	complotant /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		comploté /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/	complotes /kɔ̃.plɔt/	complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/	complotons /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɔ̃/	complotez /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/	complotent /kɔ̃.plɔt/
	imperfect	complotais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/	complotais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/	complotait /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/	complotions /kɔ̃.plɔ.tjɔ̃/	complotiez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tje/	complotaient /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	complotai /kɔ̃.plɔ.te/	complotas /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta/	complota /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta/	complotâmes /kɔ̃.plɔ.tam/	complotâtes /kɔ̃.plɔ.tat/	complotèrent /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	comploterai /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁe/	comploteras /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁa/	complotera /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁa/	comploterons /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɔ̃/	comploterez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁe/	comploteront /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	comploterais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɛ/	comploterais /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɛ/	comploterait /kɔ̃.plɔ.tʁɛ/	comploterions /kɔ̃.plɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	comploteriez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tə.ʁje/	comploteraient /kɔ̃.plɔ.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	complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/	complotes /kɔ̃.plɔt/	complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/	complotions /kɔ̃.plɔ.tjɔ̃/	complotiez /kɔ̃.plɔ.tje/	complotent /kɔ̃.plɔt/
	imperfect2	complotasse /kɔ̃.plɔ.tas/	complotasses /kɔ̃.plɔ.tas/	complotât /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta/	complotassions /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	complotassiez /kɔ̃.plɔ.ta.sje/	complotassent /kɔ̃.plɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	complote /kɔ̃.plɔt/	—	complotons /kɔ̃.plɔ.tɔ̃/	complotez /kɔ̃.plɔ.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

• complot

Further reading

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