patienter

English

Adjective

patienter

1. (rare) comparative form of patient: more patient

Anagrams

• pertinate

Danish

Noun

patienter c

1. indefinite plural of patient

French

Etymology

From patient +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sjɑ̃.te/

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Verb

patienter

1. to be patient
2. to wait patiently

Conjugation

Conjugation of patienter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	patienter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	patientant /pa.sjɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		patienté /pa.sjɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	patiente /pa.sjɑ̃t/	patientes /pa.sjɑ̃t/	patiente /pa.sjɑ̃t/	patientons /pa.sjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	patientez /pa.sjɑ̃.te/	patientent /pa.sjɑ̃t/
	imperfect	patientais /pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/	patientais /pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/	patientait /pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/	patientions /pa.sjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	patientiez /pa.sjɑ̃.tje/	patientaient /pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	patientai /pa.sjɑ̃.te/	patientas /pa.sjɑ̃.ta/	patienta /pa.sjɑ̃.ta/	patientâmes /pa.sjɑ̃.tam/	patientâtes /pa.sjɑ̃.tat/	patientèrent /pa.sjɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	patienterai /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁe/	patienteras /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁa/	patientera /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁa/	patienterons /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	patienterez /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁe/	patienteront /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	patienterais /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	patienterais /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	patienterait /pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	patienterions /pa.sjɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	patienteriez /pa.sjɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	patienteraient /pa.sjɑ̃.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	patiente /pa.sjɑ̃t/	patientes /pa.sjɑ̃t/	patiente /pa.sjɑ̃t/	patientions /pa.sjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	patientiez /pa.sjɑ̃.tje/	patientent /pa.sjɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	patientasse /pa.sjɑ̃.tas/	patientasses /pa.sjɑ̃.tas/	patientât /pa.sjɑ̃.ta/	patientassions /pa.sjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	patientassiez /pa.sjɑ̃.ta.sje/	patientassent /pa.sjɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	patiente /pa.sjɑ̃t/	—	patientons /pa.sjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	patientez /pa.sjɑ̃.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: 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).

See also

• impatienter

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• paternité, pénétrait, prêtaient, repentait

Latin

Etymology

From patiens (“bearing, supporting”) +‎ -ter.

Adverb

patienter

1. patiently

Related terms

• patientia
• patientius

References

• “patienter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Noun

patienter

1. indefinite plural of patient