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aliter
aliter
French
Pronunciation
Verb
aliter
Conjugation
Conjugation of aliter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | aliter | avoir alité | |||||
| gerund | en alitant | en ayant alité | |||||
| present participle | alitant /a.li.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | alité /a.li.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | alite /a.lit/ |
alites /a.lit/ |
alite /a.lit/ |
alitons /a.li.tɔ̃/ |
alitez /a.li.te/ |
alitent /a.lit/ |
| imperfect | alitais /a.li.tɛ/ |
alitais /a.li.tɛ/ |
alitait /a.li.tɛ/ |
alitions /a.li.tjɔ̃/ |
alitiez /a.li.tje/ |
alitaient /a.li.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | alitai /a.li.te/ |
alitas /a.li.ta/ |
alita /a.li.ta/ |
alitâmes /a.li.tam/ |
alitâtes /a.li.tat/ |
alitèrent /a.li.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | aliterai /a.li.tʁe/ |
aliteras /a.li.tʁa/ |
alitera /a.li.tʁa/ |
aliterons /a.li.tʁɔ̃/ |
aliterez /a.li.tʁe/ |
aliteront /a.li.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | aliterais /a.li.tʁɛ/ |
aliterais /a.li.tʁɛ/ |
aliterait /a.li.tʁɛ/ |
aliterions /a.li.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aliteriez /a.li.tə.ʁje/ |
aliteraient /a.li.tʁɛ/ |
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| 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 | alite /a.lit/ |
alites /a.lit/ |
alite /a.lit/ |
alitions /a.li.tjɔ̃/ |
alitiez /a.li.tje/ |
alitent /a.lit/ |
| imperfect1 |
alitasse /a.li.tas/ |
alitasses /a.li.tas/ |
alitât /a.li.ta/ |
alitassions /a.li.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
alitassiez /a.li.ta.sje/ |
alitassent /a.li.tas/ |
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| 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 | – | |
| — | alite /a.lit/ |
— | alitons /a.li.tɔ̃/ |
alitez /a.li.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Adverb from alius (“other”).
Adverb
aliter (not comparable)
- otherwise
- differently, wrongly, poorly
- badly, negatively
- mis- (aliter exceptum; mis-understood)
References
- aliter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aliter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aliter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est
- the result has surprised me; I was not prepared for this development: res aliter cecidit ac putaveram
- to think one thing, say another; to conceal one's opinions: aliter sentire ac loqui (aliud sentire, aliud loqui)
- the matter stands so (otherwise): res ita (aliter) se habet
- this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est