intenter
French
Verb
intenter
Usage notes
Nowadays, used only in the following phrases:
- intenter un procès ― to file a lawsuit
- intenter une accusation contre/à quelqu’un ― to bring an accusation against/to someone
Conjugation
Conjugation of intenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | intenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | intentant /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | intenté /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intentes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intentons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
intentez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/ |
intentent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | intentais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/ |
intentais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/ |
intentait /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/ |
intentions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
intentiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tje/ |
intentaient /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | intentai /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.te/ |
intentas /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/ |
intenta /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/ |
intentâmes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tam/ |
intentâtes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tat/ |
intentèrent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | intenterai /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁe/ |
intenteras /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁa/ |
intentera /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁa/ |
intenterons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
intenterez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁe/ |
intenteront /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | intenterais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
intenterais /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
intenterait /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
intenterions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
intenteriez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
intenteraient /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.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 | intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intentes /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
intentions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
intentiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tje/ |
intentent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | intentasse /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tas/ |
intentasses /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tas/ |
intentât /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta/ |
intentassions /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
intentassiez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
intentassent /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | intente /ɛ̃.tɑ̃t/ |
— | intentons /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
intentez /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “intenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) intenter