constater

French

Etymology

From constat, borrowed from Latin cōnstat, the third-person singular present active indicative of cōnstō. Cf. also coûter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.ta.te/
• Homophones: constatai, constaté, constatée, constatées, constatés, constatez

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Verb

constater

1. to note, notice
2. to certify
3. to state (que that)

Conjugation

Conjugation of constater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	constater
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	constatant /kɔ̃s.ta.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		constaté /kɔ̃s.ta.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constates /kɔ̃s.tat/	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/	constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.te/	constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/
	imperfect	constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/	constatais /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/	constatait /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/	constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/	constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/	constataient /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛ/
	past historic2	constatai /kɔ̃s.ta.te/	constatas /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/	constata /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/	constatâmes /kɔ̃s.ta.tam/	constatâtes /kɔ̃s.ta.tat/	constatèrent /kɔ̃s.ta.tɛʁ/
	future	constaterai /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/	constateras /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/	constatera /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁa/	constaterons /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/	constaterez /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁe/	constateront /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/	constaterais /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/	constaterait /kɔ̃s.ta.tʁɛ/	constaterions /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	constateriez /kɔ̃s.ta.tə.ʁje/	constateraient /kɔ̃s.ta.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	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constates /kɔ̃s.tat/	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	constations /kɔ̃s.ta.tjɔ̃/	constatiez /kɔ̃s.ta.tje/	constatent /kɔ̃s.tat/
	imperfect2	constatasse /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/	constatasses /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/	constatât /kɔ̃s.ta.ta/	constatassions /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sjɔ̃/	constatassiez /kɔ̃s.ta.ta.sje/	constatassent /kɔ̃s.ta.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	constate /kɔ̃s.tat/	—	constatons /kɔ̃s.ta.tɔ̃/	constatez /kɔ̃s.ta.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 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).

Derived terms

• constatation

Descendants

• → Catalan: constatar
• → Danish: konstatere
• → English: constate
• → German: konstatieren
• → Italian: constatare
• → Portuguese: constatar
• → Russian: констатировать (konstatirovatʹ)
• → Swedish: konstatera
• → Spanish: constatar

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• contraste, contrasté, contrâtes, corsetant, escortant