collaborer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

collaborer

1. to collaborate

Conjugation

Conjugation of collaborer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	collaborer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	collaborant /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		collaboré /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabores /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collaborons /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/	collaborez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/	collaborent /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/
	imperfect	collaborais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/	collaborais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/	collaborait /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/	collaborions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	collaboriez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁje/	collaboraient /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	collaborai /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/	collaboras /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa/	collabora /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa/	collaborâmes /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁam/	collaborâtes /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁat/	collaborèrent /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	collaborerai /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	collaboreras /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	collaborera /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	collaborerons /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	collaborerez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	collaboreront /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	collaborerais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	collaborerais /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	collaborerait /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	collaborerions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	collaboreriez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	collaboreraient /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(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	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabores /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	collaborions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	collaboriez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁje/	collaborent /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/
	imperfect2	collaborasse /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁas/	collaborasses /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁas/	collaborât /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa/	collaborassions /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	collaborassiez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sje/	collaborassent /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	collabore /kɔ.la.bɔʁ/	—	collaborons /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/	collaborez /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• collaboration

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

collabōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of collabōrō