anticiper

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anticipāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.si.pe/

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Verb

anticiper

1. to anticipate

   Lors du dernier match, il a anticipé chacun de mes mouvements.

   In the last game, he anticipated each of my moves.

Conjugation

Conjugation of anticiper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	anticiper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	anticipant /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		anticipé /ɑ̃.ti.si.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anticipe /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	anticipes /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	anticipe /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	anticipons /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɔ̃/	anticipez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pe/	anticipent /ɑ̃.ti.sip/
	imperfect	anticipais /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɛ/	anticipais /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɛ/	anticipait /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɛ/	anticipions /ɑ̃.ti.si.pjɔ̃/	anticipiez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pje/	anticipaient /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɛ/
	past historic2	anticipai /ɑ̃.ti.si.pe/	anticipas /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa/	anticipa /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa/	anticipâmes /ɑ̃.ti.si.pam/	anticipâtes /ɑ̃.ti.si.pat/	anticipèrent /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɛʁ/
	future	anticiperai /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁe/	anticiperas /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁa/	anticipera /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁa/	anticiperons /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁɔ̃/	anticiperez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁe/	anticiperont /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	anticiperais /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁɛ/	anticiperais /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁɛ/	anticiperait /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁɛ/	anticiperions /ɑ̃.ti.si.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	anticiperiez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pə.ʁje/	anticiperaient /ɑ̃.ti.si.pʁɛ/
(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	anticipe /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	anticipes /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	anticipe /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	anticipions /ɑ̃.ti.si.pjɔ̃/	anticipiez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pje/	anticipent /ɑ̃.ti.sip/
	imperfect2	anticipasse /ɑ̃.ti.si.pas/	anticipasses /ɑ̃.ti.si.pas/	anticipât /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa/	anticipassions /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃/	anticipassiez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sje/	anticipassent /ɑ̃.ti.si.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anticipe /ɑ̃.ti.sip/	—	anticipons /ɑ̃.ti.si.pɔ̃/	anticipez /ɑ̃.ti.si.pe/	—
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

• retraite anticipée

Descendants

• → Romanian: anticipa

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• pincerait, praticien

Latin

Verb

anticiper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of anticipō