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. indefinite plural 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

• IPA^(key): /ly.te/

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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)

infinitive	simple	lutter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	luttant /ly.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lutté /ly.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	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	lutte /lyt/	luttes /lyt/	lutte /lyt/	luttions /ly.tjɔ̃/	luttiez /ly.tje/	luttent /lyt/
	imperfect2	luttasse /ly.tas/	luttasses /ly.tas/	luttât /ly.ta/	luttassions /ly.ta.sjɔ̃/	luttassiez /ly.ta.sje/	luttassent /ly.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lutte /lyt/	—	luttons /ly.tɔ̃/	luttez /ly.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 only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• lutte
• lutteur

Related terms

• inéluctable

See also

• batailler

Further reading

• “lutter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “lutter”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 377-378

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lutter m

1. indefinite plural of lutt