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dompter
dompter
French
Verb
dompter
- (transitive) to tame (a wild animal), break in (a horse)
- (transitive) to subdue, suppress (rebellion, uprising, emotions etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of dompter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | dompter | avoir dompté | |||||
| gerund | en domptant | en ayant dompté | |||||
| present participle | domptant /dɔ̃.tɑ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | dompté /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.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 | dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptes /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptons /dɔ̃.tɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tɔ̃/ |
domptez /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.te/ |
domptent /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
| imperfect | domptais /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
domptais /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
domptait /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
domptions /dɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tjɔ̃/ |
domptiez /dɔ̃.tje/ or /dɔ̃p.tje/ |
domptaient /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | domptai /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.te/ |
domptas /dɔ̃.ta/ or /dɔ̃p.ta/ |
dompta /dɔ̃.ta/ or /dɔ̃p.ta/ |
domptâmes /dɔ̃.tam/ or /dɔ̃p.tam/ |
domptâtes /dɔ̃.tat/ or /dɔ̃p.tat/ |
domptèrent /dɔ̃.tɛʁ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | dompterai /dɔ̃.tʁe/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁe/ |
dompteras /dɔ̃.tʁa/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁa/ |
domptera /dɔ̃.tʁa/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁa/ |
dompterons /dɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
dompterez /dɔ̃.tʁe/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁe/ |
dompteront /dɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | dompterais /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dompterais /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dompterait /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dompterions /dɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dompteriez /dɔ̃.tə.ʁje/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁje/ |
dompteraient /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptes /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptions /dɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tjɔ̃/ |
domptiez /dɔ̃.tje/ or /dɔ̃p.tje/ |
domptent /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
| imperfect1 |
domptasse /dɔ̃.tas/ or /dɔ̃p.tas/ |
domptasses /dɔ̃.tas/ or /dɔ̃p.tas/ |
domptât /dɔ̃.ta/ or /dɔ̃p.ta/ |
domptassions /dɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
domptassiez /dɔ̃.ta.sje/ or /dɔ̃p.ta.sje/ |
domptassent /dɔ̃.tas/ or /dɔ̃p.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 | – | |
| — | dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
— | domptons /dɔ̃.tɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tɔ̃/ |
domptez /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Synonyms
- (to tame): apprivoiser