impatienter

French

Etymology

impatient +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/
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Verb

impatienter

  1. (transitive) to make, become impatient
  2. (reflexive) to be losing patience, to get restless
    Synonym: perdre patience

Conjugation
Conjugation of impatienter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple impatienter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple impatientant
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle impatienté
/ɛ̃.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 impatiente
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 impatientes
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 impatiente
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 impatientons
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 impatientez
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/		 impatientent
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/
imperfect impatientais
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/		 impatientais
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/		 impatientait
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/		 impatientions
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 impatientiez
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tje/		 impatientaient
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛ/
past historic2 impatientai
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.te/		 impatientas
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta/		 impatienta
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta/		 impatientâmes
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tam/		 impatientâtes
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tat/		 impatientèrent
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɛʁ/
future impatienterai
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁe/		 impatienteras
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁa/		 impatientera
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁa/		 impatienterons
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/		 impatienterez
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁe/		 impatienteront
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
conditional impatienterais
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 impatienterais
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 impatienterait
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 impatienterions
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 impatienteriez
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tə.ʁje/		 impatienteraient
/ɛ̃.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 impatiente
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 impatientes
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 impatiente
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 impatientions
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 impatientiez
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tje/		 impatientent
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/
imperfect2 impatientasse
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tas/		 impatientasses
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tas/		 impatientât
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta/		 impatientassions
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/		 impatientassiez
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.ta.sje/		 impatientassent
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — impatiente
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃t/		 — impatientons
/ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 impatientez
/ɛ̃.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).

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

in- (“un-”) +‎ patienter (“suffering, patient”) or impatiēns (“impatient”) +‎ -ter

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /im.pa.tiˈen.ter/, [ɪmpät̪iˈɛn̪t̪ɛr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.pat.t͡siˈen.ter/, [impät̪ː͡s̪iˈɛn̪t̪er]

Adverb

impatienter (comparative impatientius, superlative impatientissimē)

  1. with impatience, impatiently

References
  • “impatienter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “impatienter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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