attendre
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.tɑ̃dʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃dr
Verb
attendre
- (transitive) to wait for, to await
- Je l’attends. ― I'm waiting for her/him.
- On attend le beau temps pour partir.
- We're waiting for good weather to head out.
- J’attends mon cousin à la gare.
- I'm waiting for my cousin at the station.
- 1957, Paul Guth, Le mariage du Naïf, Le Livre de Poche, page 44:
- J’adore attendre. Ce sont les seuls moments de la vie où je me repose. Parfois je vais chez le coiffeur quand je n’en ai pas besoin, uniquement pour avoir le plaisir d’attendre.
- I love waiting. It's the only moment in life where I relax. Sometimes I go to the hairdresser's even when I don't need to, solely to have the pleasure of waiting.
- to expect
- On attendait mieux de toi.
- We expected better from you.
- (reflexive, followed by à) to expect
- Je m’attendais à pire. ― I expected worse.
- Il s’attend à ce que tu viennes ce soir.
- He expects you to come tonight.
- Pourquoi est-ce que je me suis attendu à ce que vous ayez la gentillesse de me laisser tranquille ?
- Why did I expect you to be nice enough to leave me in peace?
- 1904, Frédéric Weisgerber, Trois mois de campagne au Maroc : étude géographique de la région parcourue, Paris: Ernest Leroux, page 38:
- Notre hôte, absent au moment de notre arrivée, ne tarde pas à paraître et me fait l’accueil auquel je m’attendais de sa part.
- Our host, absent at the time of our arrival, did not take long to appear and gave me the welcome which I expected of him.
- (Louisiana) Alternative form of entendre, to hear
- Quand t’étais petit, t’attendais le français à la Messe ou a l’église?
- When you were little, would you hear French at Mass or at church?
Usage notes
- This is a false friend in French, and does not mean “to attend” under any circumstances.
Conjugation
Conjugation of attendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | attendre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | attendant /a.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | attendu /a.tɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | attends /a.tɑ̃/ |
attends /a.tɑ̃/ |
attend /a.tɑ̃/ |
attendons /a.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
attendez /a.tɑ̃.de/ |
attendent /a.tɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | attendais /a.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
attendais /a.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
attendait /a.tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
attendions /a.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
attendiez /a.tɑ̃.dje/ |
attendaient /a.tɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | attendis /a.tɑ̃.di/ |
attendis /a.tɑ̃.di/ |
attendit /a.tɑ̃.di/ |
attendîmes /a.tɑ̃.dim/ |
attendîtes /a.tɑ̃.dit/ |
attendirent /a.tɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | attendrai /a.tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
attendras /a.tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
attendra /a.tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
attendrons /a.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
attendrez /a.tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
attendront /a.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | attendrais /a.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
attendrais /a.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
attendrait /a.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
attendrions /a.tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
attendriez /a.tɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
attendraient /a.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | attende /a.tɑ̃d/ |
attendes /a.tɑ̃d/ |
attende /a.tɑ̃d/ |
attendions /a.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
attendiez /a.tɑ̃.dje/ |
attendent /a.tɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | attendisse /a.tɑ̃.dis/ |
attendisses /a.tɑ̃.dis/ |
attendît /a.tɑ̃.di/ |
attendissions /a.tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
attendissiez /a.tɑ̃.di.sje/ |
attendissent /a.tɑ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attends /a.tɑ̃/ |
— | attendons /a.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
attendez /a.tɑ̃.de/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “attendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French atendre, borrowed from Latin attendere, present active infinitive of attendō.
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