contempler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contemplāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: contemplai, contemplé, contemplée, contemplées, contemplés, contemplez

Verb

contempler

1. to contemplate
2. to look at (with one's eyes)

Conjugation

Conjugation of contempler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contempler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contemplant /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contemplé /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contemple /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	contemples /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	contemple /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	contemplons /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɔ̃/	contemplez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple/	contemplent /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/
	imperfect	contemplais /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɛ/	contemplais /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɛ/	contemplait /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɛ/	contemplions /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pli.jɔ̃/	contempliez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pli.je/	contemplaient /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɛ/
	past historic2	contemplai /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple/	contemplas /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla/	contempla /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla/	contemplâmes /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plam/	contemplâtes /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plat/	contemplèrent /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɛʁ/
	future	contemplerai /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁe/	contempleras /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁa/	contemplera /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁa/	contemplerons /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁɔ̃/	contemplerez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁe/	contempleront /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contemplerais /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁɛ/	contemplerais /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁɛ/	contemplerait /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁɛ/	contemplerions /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁjɔ̃/	contempleriez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.ʁje/	contempleraient /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plə.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	contemple /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	contemples /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	contemple /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	contemplions /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pli.jɔ̃/	contempliez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pli.je/	contemplent /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/
	imperfect2	contemplasse /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plas/	contemplasses /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plas/	contemplât /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla/	contemplassions /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla.sjɔ̃/	contemplassiez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla.sje/	contemplassent /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contemple /kɔ̃.tɑ̃pl/	—	contemplons /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.plɔ̃/	contemplez /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple/	—
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).

Related terms

• contemplable
• contemplateur
• contemplatif
• contemplation
• incontemplable

 

Further reading

• “contempler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈtem.pler/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɛmpɫ̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈtem.pler/, [kon̪ˈt̪ɛmpler]

Verb

contempler

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of contemplor