liciter

French

Etymology

From Latin licitārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.si.te/

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Verb

liciter

1. (transitive, law) to auction

Conjugation

Conjugation of liciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	liciter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	licitant /li.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		licité /li.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	licite /li.sit/	licites /li.sit/	licite /li.sit/	licitons /li.si.tɔ̃/	licitez /li.si.te/	licitent /li.sit/
	imperfect	licitais /li.si.tɛ/	licitais /li.si.tɛ/	licitait /li.si.tɛ/	licitions /li.si.tjɔ̃/	licitiez /li.si.tje/	licitaient /li.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	licitai /li.si.te/	licitas /li.si.ta/	licita /li.si.ta/	licitâmes /li.si.tam/	licitâtes /li.si.tat/	licitèrent /li.si.tɛʁ/
	future	liciterai /li.si.tʁe/	liciteras /li.si.tʁa/	licitera /li.si.tʁa/	liciterons /li.si.tʁɔ̃/	liciterez /li.si.tʁe/	liciteront /li.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	liciterais /li.si.tʁɛ/	liciterais /li.si.tʁɛ/	liciterait /li.si.tʁɛ/	liciterions /li.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	liciteriez /li.si.tə.ʁje/	liciteraient /li.si.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	licite /li.sit/	licites /li.sit/	licite /li.sit/	licitions /li.si.tjɔ̃/	licitiez /li.si.tje/	licitent /li.sit/
	imperfect2	licitasse /li.si.tas/	licitasses /li.si.tas/	licitât /li.si.ta/	licitassions /li.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	licitassiez /li.si.ta.sje/	licitassent /li.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	licite /li.sit/	—	licitons /li.si.tɔ̃/	licitez /li.si.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).

Related terms

• licitation

Further reading

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