confronter
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    Etymology
    
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/
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Conjugation
    
Conjugation of confronter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | confronter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | confrontant /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | confronté /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | confrontes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | confrontons /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/ | confrontez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/ | confrontent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | 
| imperfect | confrontais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ | confrontais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ | confrontait /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ | confrontions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ | confrontiez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tje/ | confrontaient /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | confrontai /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/ | confrontas /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta/ | confronta /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta/ | confrontâmes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tam/ | confrontâtes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tat/ | confrontèrent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | confronterai /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/ | confronteras /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/ | confrontera /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/ | confronterons /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | confronterez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/ | confronteront /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | confronterais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/ | confronterais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/ | confronterait /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/ | confronterions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | confronteriez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁje/ | confronteraient /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.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 | confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | confrontes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | confrontions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ | confrontiez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tje/ | confrontent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | 
| imperfect2 | confrontasse /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tas/ | confrontasses /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tas/ | confrontât /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta/ | confrontassions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | confrontassiez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sje/ | confrontassent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/ | — | confrontons /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/ | confrontez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.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: 
 (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
    
- “confronter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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