dont
English
    
    
Breton
    
    Alternative forms
    
- doned
Etymology
    
A suppletive verb. The verbal noun is from Middle Breton donet (influenced by monet (“to go”)), from Old Breton diminet. Cognate with Welsh dyfod, dod, and Cornish dos, dones; from Old Breton di, do + monet (“to go”). The other forms are from Proto-Celtic *toageti, itself also a suppletive verb (stemming from *ageti (“to drive”) and *pelh₂-). See also Old Irish do·aig (“to drive off”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /dɔ̃nt/
Inflection
    
Conjugation
    
Conjugation of dont
| Personal forms | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative | Conditional | Imperative | |||||
| Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Future | Present | Imperfect | ||
| 1s | deuan | deuen | deuis | deuin | deufen | deujen | - | 
| 2s | deuez | deues | deujout | deui | deufes | deujes | deu | 
| 3s | deu | deue | deuas | deuo | deufe | deuje | deuet | 
| 1p | deuomp | deuemp | deujomp | deuimp | deufemp | deujemp | deuomp | 
| 2p | deuit | deuec'h | deujoc'h | deuot | deufec'h | deujec'h | deuit | 
| 3p | deuont | deuent | deujont | deuint | deufent | deujent | deuent | 
| 0 | deuer | deued | deujod | deuor | deufed | deujed | - | 
| Impersonal forms | Mutated forms | ||||||
| Infinitive | dont, donet | Soft mutation after a | a zeu- | ||||
| Present participle | o tont | Mixed mutation after e | e teu- | ||||
| Past participle | deuet (auxiliary verb: bezañ) | Soft mutation after ne/na | ne/na zeu- | ||||
Derived terms
    
- a zeu
French
    
    Etymology
    
Inherited from Middle French dont, from Old French dunt, from Vulgar Latin/Latin dē unde (“from where”).[1] Compare Spanish donde (“where”).
Pronunciation
    
Pronoun
    
dont m or f
- of/from whom/which, whose; whereof
- Vous rappelez-vous ce dont je vous ai parlé ?- Do you remember that of which we spoke?
 
- Il n’est rien dont je sois encore certain.- There is nothing of which I am still certain.
 
- Quel est le pays dont provient cette marchandise suspecte ?- What is the country from which the suspicious merchandise comes?
 
- J’ai décidé d’abandonner l’affaire dont je vous ai entretenu il y a quelques jours.- I decided to abandon the matter of which we have been speaking for a few days.
 
- La maladie dont il est mort porte un nom imprononçable.- The disease of which he died has an unpronounceable name.
 
- Les pays dont nous n’avons point de connaissance sont les destinations privilégiées des grands aventuriers.- The countries of which we have little knowledge are the privileged destinations of great adventurers.
 
- Ces étoiles — dont le nom m’échappe — sont les plus brillantes de la voûte céleste.- These stars, whose names escape me, are the brightest in the skies.
 
- Le Québec est une province du Canada dont les frontières correspondent au territoire de la nation québécoise.- Quebec is a province of Canada whose borders correspond to the Quebecois nation.
 
 
- (sometimes) by which
- Le coup dont il fut frappé.- The blow by which he was struck.
 
 
- Denotes a part of a set, may be translated as "including" or such as in some situations.
- Il a eu dix enfants, dont neuf filles.- He had ten children, nine of them girls.
 
 
Derived terms
    
- dont acte
- dont appel
- dont auquel
References
    
- Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Further reading
    
- “dont”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
    
Middle English
    
    
Occitan
    
    Pronunciation
    
- Audio (Béarn) - (file) 
Preposition
    
dont
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