consulter

English

Etymology

consult +‎ -er

Noun

consulter (plural consulters)

1. One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

Related terms

• consultant, consultor

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for consulter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• reconsult

---

French

Etymology

From Latin consultare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.te/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

consulter

1. to consult

   Demain matin, j'irai consulter mon médecin.

2. to refer to

Conjugation

  Conjugation of consulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		consulter			avoir consulté
gerund		en consultant			en ayant consulté
present participle		consultant /kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃/
past participle		consulté /kɔ̃.syl.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultes /kɔ̃.sylt/	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultons /kɔ̃.syl.tɔ̃/	consultez /kɔ̃.syl.te/	consultent /kɔ̃.sylt/
	imperfect	consultais /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/	consultais /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/	consultait /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/	consultions /kɔ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/	consultiez /kɔ̃.syl.tje/	consultaient /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/
	past historic1	consultai /kɔ̃.syl.te/	consultas /kɔ̃.syl.ta/	consulta /kɔ̃.syl.ta/	consultâmes /kɔ̃.syl.tam/	consultâtes /kɔ̃.syl.tat/	consultèrent /kɔ̃.syl.tɛʁ/
	future	consulterai /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/	consulteras /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/	consultera /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/	consulterons /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	consulterez /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/	consulteront /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consulterais /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	consulterais /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	consulterait /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	consulterions /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	consulteriez /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁje/	consulteraient /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultes /kɔ̃.sylt/	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultions /kɔ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/	consultiez /kɔ̃.syl.tje/	consultent /kɔ̃.sylt/
	imperfect1	consultasse /kɔ̃.syl.tas/	consultasses /kɔ̃.syl.tas/	consultât /kɔ̃.syl.ta/	consultassions /kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃/	consultassiez /kɔ̃.syl.ta.sje/	consultassent /kɔ̃.syl.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	—	consultons /kɔ̃.syl.tɔ̃/	consultez /kɔ̃.syl.te/	—
1literary tenses

Further reading

• “consulter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

---

Latin

Verb

cōnsulter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsultō