transcender

English

Etymology

transcend +‎ -er

Noun

transcender (plural transcenders)

1. One who transcends.
   • 1995, Antoine Culioli, Michel Liddle, Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory, page v:

     British and North American practitioners tend to ignore the heirs, gainsayers and transcenders of the framework set out by Ferdinand de Saussure.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transcendo, transcendere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.de/

Verb

transcender

1. to transcend

Conjugation

Conjugation of transcender (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transcender
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transcendant /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transcendé /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transcende /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	transcendes /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	transcende /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	transcendons /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/	transcendez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.de/	transcendent /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/
	imperfect	transcendais /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɛ/	transcendais /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɛ/	transcendait /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɛ/	transcendions /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	transcendiez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dje/	transcendaient /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	transcendai /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.de/	transcendas /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.da/	transcenda /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.da/	transcendâmes /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dam/	transcendâtes /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dat/	transcendèrent /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	transcenderai /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁe/	transcenderas /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁa/	transcendera /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁa/	transcenderons /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	transcenderez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁe/	transcenderont /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transcenderais /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	transcenderais /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	transcenderait /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	transcenderions /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	transcenderiez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.də.ʁje/	transcenderaient /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.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	transcende /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	transcendes /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	transcende /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	transcendions /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	transcendiez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dje/	transcendent /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	transcendasse /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.das/	transcendasses /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.das/	transcendât /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.da/	transcendassions /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	transcendassiez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.da.sje/	transcendassent /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transcende /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃d/	—	transcendons /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/	transcendez /tʁɑ̃.sɑ̃.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

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transcendo, transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”). Compare Spanish trascender, French transcender.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans‧cen‧der

Verb

1. to transcend

Related terms

• descender

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Spanish

Verb

1. Alternative spelling of trascender