féliciter

See also: feliciter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fēlicitāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe.li.si.te/

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Verb

féliciter

1. to congratulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of féliciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	féliciter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	félicitant /fe.li.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		félicité /fe.li.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	félicite /fe.li.sit/	félicites /fe.li.sit/	félicite /fe.li.sit/	félicitons /fe.li.si.tɔ̃/	félicitez /fe.li.si.te/	félicitent /fe.li.sit/
	imperfect	félicitais /fe.li.si.tɛ/	félicitais /fe.li.si.tɛ/	félicitait /fe.li.si.tɛ/	félicitions /fe.li.si.tjɔ̃/	félicitiez /fe.li.si.tje/	félicitaient /fe.li.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	félicitai /fe.li.si.te/	félicitas /fe.li.si.ta/	félicita /fe.li.si.ta/	félicitâmes /fe.li.si.tam/	félicitâtes /fe.li.si.tat/	félicitèrent /fe.li.si.tɛʁ/
	future	féliciterai /fe.li.si.tʁe/	féliciteras /fe.li.si.tʁa/	félicitera /fe.li.si.tʁa/	féliciterons /fe.li.si.tʁɔ̃/	féliciterez /fe.li.si.tʁe/	féliciteront /fe.li.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	féliciterais /fe.li.si.tʁɛ/	féliciterais /fe.li.si.tʁɛ/	féliciterait /fe.li.si.tʁɛ/	féliciterions /fe.li.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	féliciteriez /fe.li.si.tə.ʁje/	féliciteraient /fe.li.si.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	félicite /fe.li.sit/	félicites /fe.li.sit/	félicite /fe.li.sit/	félicitions /fe.li.si.tjɔ̃/	félicitiez /fe.li.si.tje/	félicitent /fe.li.sit/
	imperfect2	félicitasse /fe.li.si.tas/	félicitasses /fe.li.si.tas/	félicitât /fe.li.si.ta/	félicitassions /fe.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	félicitassiez /fe.li.si.ta.sje/	félicitassent /fe.li.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	félicite /fe.li.sit/	—	félicitons /fe.li.si.tɔ̃/	félicitez /fe.li.si.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

• félicitation

Descendants

• → Dutch: feliciteren
  • → Aukan: fisiteli
  • → Caribbean Javanese: félisitir
• → Romanian: felicita

Further reading

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