lutter

See also: Lutter

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lutər/, [ˈlud̥ɐ]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lūtter (“clean, pure, unmixed”).

Adjective

lutter (neuter lutter, plural and definite singular attributive lutter)

1. sheer, all, nothing but

Etymology 2

See lut (“lute”).

Noun

lutter c

1. plural indefinite of lut

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French

Etymology

From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter, from Vulgar Latin luctāre, from Latin luctārī, present active infinitive of luctor (“struggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”). Compare Portuguese lutar, Spanish luchar, Catalan lluitar, Italian lottare, Romanian lupta.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ly.te/

Verb

lutter

1. (intransitive) to struggle, to fight

   lutter contre la discrimination ― to fight/struggle against discrimation

2. (sports) to wrestle

Conjugation

  Conjugation of lutter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		lutter			avoir lutté
gerund		en luttant			en ayant lutté
present participle		luttant /ly.tɑ̃/
past participle		lutté /ly.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	lutte /lyt/	luttes /lyt/	lutte /lyt/	luttons /ly.tɔ̃/	luttez /ly.te/	luttent /lyt/
	imperfect	luttais /ly.tɛ/	luttais /ly.tɛ/	luttait /ly.tɛ/	luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/	luttiez /ly.tje/	luttaient /ly.tɛ/
	past historic1	luttai /ly.te/	luttas /ly.ta/	lutta /ly.ta/	luttâmes /ly.tam/	luttâtes /ly.tat/	luttèrent /ly.tɛʁ/
	future	lutterai /ly.tʁe/	lutteras /ly.tʁa/	luttera /ly.tʁa/	lutterons /ly.tʁɔ̃/	lutterez /ly.tʁe/	lutteront /ly.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lutterais /ly.tʁɛ/	lutterais /ly.tʁɛ/	lutterait /ly.tʁɛ/	lutterions /ly.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	lutteriez /ly.tə.ʁje/	lutteraient /ly.tʁɛ/
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	lutte /lyt/	luttes /lyt/	lutte /lyt/	luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/	luttiez /ly.tje/	luttent /lyt/
	imperfect1	luttasse /ly.tas/	luttasses /ly.tas/	luttât /ly.ta/	luttassions /ly.ta.sjɔ̃/	luttassiez /ly.ta.sje/	luttassent /ly.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	–
		—	lutte /lyt/	—	luttons /ly.tɔ̃/	luttez /ly.te/	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• lutte
• lutteur

See also

• batailler

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lutter m

1. indefinite plural of lutt