mandater

Danish

Noun

mandater

1. indefinite plural of mandat

French

Etymology

From mandat +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.da.te/

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Verb

mandater

1. (transitive) to appoint, elect, commission

Conjugation

Conjugation of mandater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mandater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mandatant /mɑ̃.da.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mandaté /mɑ̃.da.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mandate /mɑ̃.dat/	mandates /mɑ̃.dat/	mandate /mɑ̃.dat/	mandatons /mɑ̃.da.tɔ̃/	mandatez /mɑ̃.da.te/	mandatent /mɑ̃.dat/
	imperfect	mandatais /mɑ̃.da.tɛ/	mandatais /mɑ̃.da.tɛ/	mandatait /mɑ̃.da.tɛ/	mandations /mɑ̃.da.tjɔ̃/	mandatiez /mɑ̃.da.tje/	mandataient /mɑ̃.da.tɛ/
	past historic2	mandatai /mɑ̃.da.te/	mandatas /mɑ̃.da.ta/	mandata /mɑ̃.da.ta/	mandatâmes /mɑ̃.da.tam/	mandatâtes /mɑ̃.da.tat/	mandatèrent /mɑ̃.da.tɛʁ/
	future	mandaterai /mɑ̃.da.tʁe/	mandateras /mɑ̃.da.tʁa/	mandatera /mɑ̃.da.tʁa/	mandaterons /mɑ̃.da.tʁɔ̃/	mandaterez /mɑ̃.da.tʁe/	mandateront /mɑ̃.da.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mandaterais /mɑ̃.da.tʁɛ/	mandaterais /mɑ̃.da.tʁɛ/	mandaterait /mɑ̃.da.tʁɛ/	mandaterions /mɑ̃.da.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	mandateriez /mɑ̃.da.tə.ʁje/	mandateraient /mɑ̃.da.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	mandate /mɑ̃.dat/	mandates /mɑ̃.dat/	mandate /mɑ̃.dat/	mandations /mɑ̃.da.tjɔ̃/	mandatiez /mɑ̃.da.tje/	mandatent /mɑ̃.dat/
	imperfect2	mandatasse /mɑ̃.da.tas/	mandatasses /mɑ̃.da.tas/	mandatât /mɑ̃.da.ta/	mandatassions /mɑ̃.da.ta.sjɔ̃/	mandatassiez /mɑ̃.da.ta.sje/	mandatassent /mɑ̃.da.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mandate /mɑ̃.dat/	—	mandatons /mɑ̃.da.tɔ̃/	mandatez /mɑ̃.da.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

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