FromOld Englishlætra, comparative form oflæt(“late”).Doublet oflater; also, cognate withlast, whose doublet islatest.
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FromOld Norsehlátr, fromProto-Germanic*hlahtraz(“laughter”), cognate withNorwegianlått,Englishlaughter andGermanGelächter. Derived from the verb*hlahjaną(“to laugh”), cf.Danishle,Englishlaugh,Germanlachen.
latter c (singular definitelatteren,not used in plural form)
| common gender | singular | |
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| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | latter | latteren |
| genitive | latters | latterens |
latter
| infinitive | simple | latter | |||||
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| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle orgerund1 | simple | lattant /la.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | latté /la.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | latte /lat/ | lattes /lat/ | latte /lat/ | lattons /la.tɔ̃/ | lattez /la.te/ | lattent /lat/ |
| imperfect | lattais /la.tɛ/ | lattais /la.tɛ/ | lattait /la.tɛ/ | lattions /la.tjɔ̃/ | lattiez /la.tje/ | lattaient /la.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lattai /la.te/ | lattas /la.ta/ | latta /la.ta/ | lattâmes /la.tam/ | lattâtes /la.tat/ | lattèrent /la.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | latterai /la.tʁe/ | latteras /la.tʁa/ | lattera /la.tʁa/ | latterons /la.tʁɔ̃/ | latterez /la.tʁe/ | latteront /la.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | latterais /la.tʁɛ/ | latterais /la.tʁɛ/ | latterait /la.tʁɛ/ | latterions /la.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | latteriez /la.tə.ʁje/ | latteraient /la.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | latte /lat/ | lattes /lat/ | latte /lat/ | lattions /la.tjɔ̃/ | lattiez /la.tje/ | lattent /lat/ |
| imperfect2 | lattasse /la.tas/ | lattasses /la.tas/ | lattât /la.ta/ | lattassions /la.ta.sjɔ̃/ | lattassiez /la.ta.sje/ | lattassent /la.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | latte /lat/ | — | lattons /la.tɔ̃/ | lattez /la.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. | |||||||
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). | |||||||
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latter
latter m (definite singularlatteren)(uncountable)