vilipender

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin vīlipendō, from vīlis (“vile”) and pendō (“to weigh; to consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/

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Verb

vilipender

1. (transitive) to vilipend, vilify, revile, scorn, despise, condemn

Conjugation

Conjugation of vilipender (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vilipender
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vilipendant /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vilipendé /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	vilipendes /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	vilipendons /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/	vilipendez /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/	vilipendent /vi.li.pɑ̃d/
	imperfect	vilipendais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/	vilipendais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/	vilipendait /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/	vilipendions /vi.li.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/	vilipendiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.dje/	vilipendaient /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	vilipendai /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/	vilipendas /vi.li.pɑ̃.da/	vilipenda /vi.li.pɑ̃.da/	vilipendâmes /vi.li.pɑ̃.dam/	vilipendâtes /vi.li.pɑ̃.dat/	vilipendèrent /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	vilipenderai /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁe/	vilipenderas /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁa/	vilipendera /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁa/	vilipenderons /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	vilipenderez /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁe/	vilipenderont /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vilipenderais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	vilipenderais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	vilipenderait /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/	vilipenderions /vi.li.pɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	vilipenderiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.də.ʁje/	vilipenderaient /vi.li.pɑ̃.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	vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	vilipendes /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	vilipendions /vi.li.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/	vilipendiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.dje/	vilipendent /vi.li.pɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	vilipendasse /vi.li.pɑ̃.das/	vilipendasses /vi.li.pɑ̃.das/	vilipendât /vi.li.pɑ̃.da/	vilipendassions /vi.li.pɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	vilipendassiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.da.sje/	vilipendassent /vi.li.pɑ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/	—	vilipendons /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/	vilipendez /vi.li.pɑ̃.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

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