distendre

See also: distendré

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distendere, present active infinitive of distendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [disˈten.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [disˈten.dɾe]

Verb

distendre (first-person singular present distenc, first-person singular preterite distenguí, past participle distès)

1. (transitive) to distend, to stretch out

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distendere, present active infinitive of distendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.tɑ̃dʁ/

Verb

distendre

1. (transitive) to distend

Conjugation

Conjugation of distendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	distendre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	distendant /dis.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		distendu /dis.tɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	distends /dis.tɑ̃/	distends /dis.tɑ̃/	distend /dis.tɑ̃/	distendons /dis.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/	distendez /dis.tɑ̃.de/	distendent /dis.tɑ̃d/
	imperfect	distendais /dis.tɑ̃.dɛ/	distendais /dis.tɑ̃.dɛ/	distendait /dis.tɑ̃.dɛ/	distendions /dis.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/	distendiez /dis.tɑ̃.dje/	distendaient /dis.tɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	distendis /dis.tɑ̃.di/	distendis /dis.tɑ̃.di/	distendit /dis.tɑ̃.di/	distendîmes /dis.tɑ̃.dim/	distendîtes /dis.tɑ̃.dit/	distendirent /dis.tɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	distendrai /dis.tɑ̃.dʁe/	distendras /dis.tɑ̃.dʁa/	distendra /dis.tɑ̃.dʁa/	distendrons /dis.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	distendrez /dis.tɑ̃.dʁe/	distendront /dis.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	distendrais /dis.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	distendrais /dis.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	distendrait /dis.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	distendrions /dis.tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	distendriez /dis.tɑ̃.dʁi.je/	distendraient /dis.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	distende /dis.tɑ̃d/	distendes /dis.tɑ̃d/	distende /dis.tɑ̃d/	distendions /dis.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/	distendiez /dis.tɑ̃.dje/	distendent /dis.tɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	distendisse /dis.tɑ̃.dis/	distendisses /dis.tɑ̃.dis/	distendît /dis.tɑ̃.di/	distendissions /dis.tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	distendissiez /dis.tɑ̃.di.sje/	distendissent /dis.tɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	distends /dis.tɑ̃/	—	distendons /dis.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/	distendez /dis.tɑ̃.de/	—
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).

Further reading

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