consentir in French dictionary

consentir

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Synonyms of "consentir" in French dictionary

maintenir, adhérer, opiner are the top synonyms of "consentir" in the French thesaurus.

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Grammar and declension of consentir

(Verb) This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The biggest difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) consens and (il) consent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *consentis and *consentit (as in the past historic). Conjugation of consentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		consentir			avoir or être consenti
gerund		en consentant			en ayant consenti or en étant consenti
present participle		consentant
past participle		consenti
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simpletenses	present	consens	consens	consent	consentons	consentez	consentent
	imperfect	consentais	consentais	consentait	consentions	consentiez	consentaient
	past historic¹	consentis	consentis	consentit	consentîmes	consentîtes	consentirent
	future	consentirai	consentiras	consentira	consentirons	consentirez	consentiront
	conditional	consentirais	consentirais	consentirait	consentirions	consentiriez	consentiraient
compoundtenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simpletenses	present	consente	consentes	consente	consentions	consentiez	consentent
simpletenses	imperfect¹	consentisse	consentisses	consentît	consentissions	consentissiez	consentissent
compoundtenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
compoundtenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	consens	—	consentons	consentez	—
¹literary tenses

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) consens and (il) consent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *consentis and *consentit (as in the past historic). Conjugation of consentir

		simple			compound
infinitive		consentir			avoir consenti
gerund		en consentant			en ayant consenti
present participle		consentant /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle		consenti /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	consens /kɔ̃.sɑ̃/	consens /kɔ̃.sɑ̃/	consent /kɔ̃.sɑ̃/	consentons /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/	consentez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.te/	consentent /kɔ̃.sɑ̃t/
	imperfect	consentais /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ/	consentais /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ/	consentait /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ/	consentions /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	consentiez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tje/	consentaient /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic¹	consentis /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti/	consentis /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti/	consentit /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti/	consentîmes /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tim/	consentîtes /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tit/	consentirent /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tiʁ/
	future	consentirai /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	consentiras /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	consentira /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	consentirons /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/	consentirez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	consentiront /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consentirais /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	consentirais /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	consentirait /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	consentirions /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	consentiriez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁje/	consentiraient /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/
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	consente /kɔ̃.sɑ̃t/	consentes /kɔ̃.sɑ̃t/	consente /kɔ̃.sɑ̃t/	consentions /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	consentiez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tje/	consentent /kɔ̃.sɑ̃t/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	consentisse /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tis/	consentisses /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tis/	consentît /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti/	consentissions /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	consentissiez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.ti.sje/	consentissent /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tis/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	consens /kɔ̃.sɑ̃/	—	consentons /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/	consentez /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.te/	—
¹literary tenses

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