lutter

See also: Lutter

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lutər/, [ˈlud̥ɐ]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lūtter (“clean, pure, unmixed”).

Adjective

lutter (neuter lutter, plural and definite singular attributive lutter)

  1. sheer, all, nothing but

Etymology 2

See lut (“lute”).

Noun

lutter c

  1. indefinite plural of lut

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French luiter, from Old French luitier, from Latin luctārī.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ly.te/
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Verb

lutter

  1. (intransitive) to struggle, to fight
    lutter contre la discrimination ― to fight/struggle against discrimination
  2. (sports) to wrestle

Conjugation
Conjugation of lutter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple lutter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple luttant
/ly.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle lutté
/ly.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present lutte
/lyt/		 luttes
/lyt/		 lutte
/lyt/		 luttons
/ly.tɔ̃/		 luttez
/ly.te/		 luttent
/lyt/
imperfect luttais
/ly.tɛ/		 luttais
/ly.tɛ/		 luttait
/ly.tɛ/		 luttions
/ly.tjɔ̃/		 luttiez
/ly.tje/		 luttaient
/ly.tɛ/
past historic2 luttai
/ly.te/		 luttas
/ly.ta/		 lutta
/ly.ta/		 luttâmes
/ly.tam/		 luttâtes
/ly.tat/		 luttèrent
/ly.tɛʁ/
future lutterai
/ly.tʁe/		 lutteras
/ly.tʁa/		 luttera
/ly.tʁa/		 lutterons
/ly.tʁɔ̃/		 lutterez
/ly.tʁe/		 lutteront
/ly.tʁɔ̃/
conditional lutterais
/ly.tʁɛ/		 lutterais
/ly.tʁɛ/		 lutterait
/ly.tʁɛ/		 lutterions
/ly.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 lutteriez
/ly.tə.ʁje/		 lutteraient
/ly.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 lutte
/lyt/		 luttes
/lyt/		 lutte
/lyt/		 luttions
/ly.tjɔ̃/		 luttiez
/ly.tje/		 luttent
/lyt/
imperfect2 luttasse
/ly.tas/		 luttasses
/ly.tas/		 luttât
/ly.ta/		 luttassions
/ly.ta.sjɔ̃/		 luttassiez
/ly.ta.sje/		 luttassent
/ly.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — lutte
/lyt/		 — luttons
/ly.tɔ̃/		 luttez
/ly.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).

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Mòcheno

Noun

lutter ?

  1. rhododendron

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lutter m

  1. indefinite plural of lutt
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