confronter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English confront

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English confronter

From confront + -er.

Noun

confronter (plural confronters)

1. Someone who or something which confronts.

Anagrams

• reconfront

French

Etymology

From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/

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Verb

confronter

1. to confront
2. to contrast, to compare

Conjugation

Conjugation of confronter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	confronter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	confrontant /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		confronté /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	confrontes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	confrontons /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/	confrontez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/	confrontent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/
	imperfect	confrontais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/	confrontais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/	confrontait /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/	confrontions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	confrontiez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tje/	confrontaient /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	confrontai /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.te/	confrontas /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta/	confronta /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta/	confrontâmes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tam/	confrontâtes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tat/	confrontèrent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	confronterai /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/	confronteras /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/	confrontera /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/	confronterons /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	confronterez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/	confronteront /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	confronterais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/	confronterais /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/	confronterait /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/	confronterions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	confronteriez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁje/	confronteraient /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.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	confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	confrontes /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	confrontions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	confrontiez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tje/	confrontent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/
	imperfect2	confrontasse /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tas/	confrontasses /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tas/	confrontât /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta/	confrontassions /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	confrontassiez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sje/	confrontassent /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	confronte /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃t/	—	confrontons /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/	confrontez /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fronceront