constater

French

Etymology

From constat, borrowed from Latin cōnstat, the third-person singular present active indicative of cōnstō. Cf. also coûter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.ta.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

constater

1. to note, notice
2. to certify
3. to state (que that)

Conjugation

Conjugation of constater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	constater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	constatant /kɔ̃s.ta.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		constaté /kɔ̃s.ta.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constates /kɔ̃s.tat/	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/	constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.te/	constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/
	imperfect	constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/	constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/	constatait /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/	constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/	constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/	constataient /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/
	past historic2	constatai /kɔ̃s.ta.te/	constatas /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/	constata /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/	constatâmes /kɔ̃s.ta.tam/	constatâtes /kɔ̃s.ta.tat/	constatèrent /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛʁ/
	future	constaterai /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/	constateras /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/	constatera /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/	constaterons /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/	constaterez /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/	constateront /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/	constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/	constaterait /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/	constaterions /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	constateriez /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁje/	constateraient /kɔ̃s.ta.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	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constates /kɔ̃s.tat/	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/	constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/	constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/
	imperfect2	constatasse /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/	constatasses /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/	constatât /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/	constatassions /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sjɔ̃/	constatassiez /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sje/	constatassent /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	—	constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/	constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.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

• constatation

Descendants

• → Catalan: constatar
• → Danish: konstatere
• → English: constate
• → German: konstatieren
• → Portuguese: constatar
• → Spanish: constatar

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• contraste, contrasté, contrâtes, corsetant, escortant