dompter
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French donter, from Latin domitāre. The p is unetymological, also seen in terms like Old French dampner (Latin damnō, Modern French damner).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ̃.te/, /dɔ̃p.te/
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Verb
dompter (transitive)
- to tame (a wild animal), break in (a horse)
- Synonym: apprivoiser
- dompter un cheval ― to break in a horse
- dompter un taureau ― to tame a bull
- to tame, to subdue, to suppress (rebellion, uprising, emotions etc.)
- 1883, Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, collection Folio, page 137:
- On sentait une puissante individualité, que la foi s’était assujettie, mais que la règle ecclésiastique n’avait pas domptée.
- One felt a powerful individuality which faith had subjugated, but which ecclesiastical law had not tamed.
Conjugation
Conjugation of dompter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dompter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | domptant /dɔ̃.tɑ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dompté /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptes /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptons /dɔ̃.tɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tɔ̃/ |
domptez /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.te/ |
domptent /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
| imperfect | domptais /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
domptais /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
domptait /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ |
domptions /dɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tjɔ̃/ |
domptiez /dɔ̃.tje/ or /dɔ̃p.tje/ |
domptaient /dɔ̃.tɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | domptai /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.te/ |
domptas /dɔ̃.ta/ or /dɔ̃p.ta/ |
dompta /dɔ̃.ta/ or /dɔ̃p.ta/ |
domptâmes /dɔ̃.tam/ or /dɔ̃p.tam/ |
domptâtes /dɔ̃.tat/ or /dɔ̃p.tat/ |
domptèrent /dɔ̃.tɛʁ/ or /dɔ̃p.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | dompterai /dɔ̃.tʁe/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁe/ |
dompteras /dɔ̃.tʁa/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁa/ |
domptera /dɔ̃.tʁa/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁa/ |
dompterons /dɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
dompterez /dɔ̃.tʁe/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁe/ |
dompteront /dɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dompterais /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dompterais /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dompterait /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ |
dompterions /dɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dompteriez /dɔ̃.tə.ʁje/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁje/ |
dompteraient /dɔ̃.tʁɛ/ or /dɔ̃p.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptes /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
domptions /dɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tjɔ̃/ |
domptiez /dɔ̃.tje/ or /dɔ̃p.tje/ |
domptent /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
| imperfect2 | domptasse /dɔ̃.tas/ or /dɔ̃p.tas/ |
domptasses /dɔ̃.tas/ or /dɔ̃p.tas/ |
domptât /dɔ̃.ta/ or /dɔ̃p.ta/ |
domptassions /dɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
domptassiez /dɔ̃.ta.sje/ or /dɔ̃p.ta.sje/ |
domptassent /dɔ̃.tas/ or /dɔ̃p.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dompte /dɔ̃t/ or /dɔ̃pt/ |
— | domptons /dɔ̃.tɔ̃/ or /dɔ̃p.tɔ̃/ |
domptez /dɔ̃.te/ or /dɔ̃p.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
- “dompter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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