léviter
See also: leviter
French
Etymology
From Latin levāre (“to lift”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
léviter
- (usually intransitive) to levitate
Conjugation
Conjugation of léviter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | léviter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | lévitant /le.vi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | lévité /le.vi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | lévite /le.vit/ |
lévites /le.vit/ |
lévite /le.vit/ |
lévitons /le.vi.tɔ̃/ |
lévitez /le.vi.te/ |
lévitent /le.vit/ |
| imperfect | lévitais /le.vi.tɛ/ |
lévitais /le.vi.tɛ/ |
lévitait /le.vi.tɛ/ |
lévitions /le.vi.tjɔ̃/ |
lévitiez /le.vi.tje/ |
lévitaient /le.vi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lévitai /le.vi.te/ |
lévitas /le.vi.ta/ |
lévita /le.vi.ta/ |
lévitâmes /le.vi.tam/ |
lévitâtes /le.vi.tat/ |
lévitèrent /le.vi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | léviterai /le.vi.tʁe/ |
léviteras /le.vi.tʁa/ |
lévitera /le.vi.tʁa/ |
léviterons /le.vi.tʁɔ̃/ |
léviterez /le.vi.tʁe/ |
léviteront /le.vi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | léviterais /le.vi.tʁɛ/ |
léviterais /le.vi.tʁɛ/ |
léviterait /le.vi.tʁɛ/ |
léviterions /le.vi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
léviteriez /le.vi.tə.ʁje/ |
léviteraient /le.vi.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 | lévite /le.vit/ |
lévites /le.vit/ |
lévite /le.vit/ |
lévitions /le.vi.tjɔ̃/ |
lévitiez /le.vi.tje/ |
lévitent /le.vit/ |
| imperfect2 | lévitasse /le.vi.tas/ |
lévitasses /le.vi.tas/ |
lévitât /le.vi.ta/ |
lévitassions /le.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
lévitassiez /le.vi.ta.sje/ |
lévitassent /le.vi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | lévite /le.vit/ |
— | lévitons /le.vi.tɔ̃/ |
lévitez /le.vi.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
- “léviter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.