fêter
See also: feter
French
Etymology
From Old French fester. Synchronically analysable as fête + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛ.te/
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Verb
fêter
- (transitive) to celebrate (an event)
- Il va fêter son quarantième anniversaire demain.
- He is going to celebrate his 40th anniversary tomorrow.
- (transitive) to celebrate (somebody)
Conjugation
Conjugation of fêter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | fêter | avoir fêté | |||||
| gerund | en fêtant | en ayant fêté | |||||
| present participle | fêtant /fɛ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | fêté /fɛ.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | fête /fɛt/ |
fêtes /fɛt/ |
fête /fɛt/ |
fêtons /fɛ.tɔ̃/ |
fêtez /fɛ.te/ |
fêtent /fɛt/ |
| imperfect | fêtais /fɛ.tɛ/ |
fêtais /fɛ.tɛ/ |
fêtait /fɛ.tɛ/ |
fêtions /fɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
fêtiez /fɛ.tje/ |
fêtaient /fɛ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | fêtai /fɛ.te/ |
fêtas /fɛ.ta/ |
fêta /fɛ.ta/ |
fêtâmes /fɛ.tam/ |
fêtâtes /fɛ.tat/ |
fêtèrent /fɛ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | fêterai /fɛ.tʁe/ |
fêteras /fɛ.tʁa/ |
fêtera /fɛ.tʁa/ |
fêterons /fɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
fêterez /fɛ.tʁe/ |
fêteront /fɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fêterais /fɛ.tʁɛ/ |
fêterais /fɛ.tʁɛ/ |
fêterait /fɛ.tʁɛ/ |
fêterions /fɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fêteriez /fɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
fêteraient /fɛ.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 | fête /fɛt/ |
fêtes /fɛt/ |
fête /fɛt/ |
fêtions /fɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
fêtiez /fɛ.tje/ |
fêtent /fɛt/ |
| imperfect1 | fêtasse /fɛ.tas/ |
fêtasses /fɛ.tas/ |
fêtât /fɛ.ta/ |
fêtassions /fɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fêtassiez /fɛ.ta.sje/ |
fêtassent /fɛ.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 | – | |
| — | fête /fɛt/ |
— | fêtons /fɛ.tɔ̃/ |
fêtez /fɛ.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “fêter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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