contester
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]contester (plural contesters)
- One who contests something.
- 2000, Robert S. Menchin, Where There's a Will:
- Meanwhile, Millar's second cousins and even more remote relatives hired lawyers to litigate the will out of existence. Contesters of the will claimed that the clause “encouraged immorality” and was “against public policy” […]
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin contestārī.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]contester
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of contester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | contester | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | contestant /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | contesté /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestes /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɔ̃/ |
contestez /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ |
contestent /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
imperfect | contestais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ |
contestais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ |
contestait /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ |
contestions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
contestiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tje/ |
contestaient /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | contestai /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ |
contestas /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/ |
contesta /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/ |
contestâmes /kɔ̃.tɛs.tam/ |
contestâtes /kɔ̃.tɛs.tat/ |
contestèrent /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
future | contesterai /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
contesteras /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
contestera /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
contesterons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
contesterez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
contesteront /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | contesterais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contesterais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contesterait /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contesterions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
contesteriez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
contesteraient /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.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 | conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestes /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
contestiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tje/ |
contestent /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
imperfect2 | contestasse /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/ |
contestasses /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/ |
contestât /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/ |
contestassions /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
contestassiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta.sje/ |
contestassent /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
— | contestons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɔ̃/ |
contestez /kɔ̃.tɛs.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]contester
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin contestor, contestārī (“call to witness”).
Verb
[edit]contester
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested 1338, Latin contestor.
Verb
[edit]contester
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of contester (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | contester | avoir contesté | |||||
gerund | en contestant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | contestant | ||||||
past participle | contesté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | contest | contestes | conteste | contestons | contestez | contestent |
imperfect | contestoie, contesteie, contestoe, contesteve | contestoies, contesteies, contestoes, contesteves | contestoit, contesteit, contestot, contesteve | contestiiens, contestiens | contestiiez, contestiez | contestoient, contesteient, contestoent, contestevent | |
preterite | contestai | contestas | contesta | contestames | contestastes | contesterent | |
future | contesterai | contesteras | contestera | contesterons | contesteroiz, contestereiz, contesterez | contesteront | |
conditional | contesteroie, contestereie | contesteroies, contestereies | contesteroit, contestereit | contesteriiens, contesteriens | contesteriiez, contesteriez | contesteroient, contestereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | contest | contez | contest | contestons | contestez | contestent |
imperfect | contestasse | contestasses | contestast | contestissons, contestissiens | contestissoiz, contestissez, contestissiez | contestassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | conteste | — | contestons | contestez | — |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (contester, supplement)
- Etymology and history of “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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