# conter
## Champenois
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French conter, from Latin computāre.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /kõ.te/

### Verb

conter
* (Troyen) to count
* to recount
* to think
* to believe

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French conter, from Latin computāre. Doublet of compter and computer. Semantical shift from "count" to "recount" via the notion of "enumerate facts, go through facts"; compare the same in English tell.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.te/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: comptai, compté, comptée, comptées, compter, comptés, comptez, comté, comtés, contai, conté, contée, contées, contés, contez

### Verb

conter
* to recount (tell a story)

#### Derived terms

* conter fleurette
* raconter

#### Related terms

* compter

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* contre, contré
* cornet

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese contẽer, from Latin continēre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [koŋˈteːɾ]

### Verb

conter (first-person singular present conteño, first-person singular preterite contiven, past participle contido) conter (first-person singular present contenho, first-person singular preterite contivem or contive, past participle contido, reintegrationist norm)
* to contain

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* abster
* ater
* deter
* entreter
* manter
* reter
* soster
* ter

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* (Anglo-Norman) cunter

### Etymology

From Latin computāre.

### Verb

conter
* to tell; to say
* to recount (tell a story)
* to add up (count)

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Descendants

* Middle French: compter
** French: conter, compter
* Middle English: counten, compt, compten, count, counte, cownt, cownte, cowntone, cowntyn, kownt
** English: count
** Scots: coont, count

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese contẽer, from Latin continēre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kõˈte(ʁ)/ [kõˈte(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõˈte(ʁ)/ [kõˈte(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõˈte(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõˈte(ʁ)/ [kõˈte(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõˈte(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõˈteɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõˈteɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kõˈte.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: con‧ter

### Verb

conter (first-person singular present contenho, first-person singular preterite contive, past participle contido)
* to contain, hold, carry
* to include
* to restrain

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:conter.

#### Related terms

* continente
* continência
* contenças
* conteúdo
* ter

## Walloon
### Etymology

From Old French conter, from Latin computō, computare (“compute”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.ˈte/

### Verb

conter
* to count

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | simple | conter |
| infinitive | compound | aveur + past participle | aveur + past participle | aveur + past participle |
| gerund$^1$ | simple | contant |
| gerund$^1$ | compound | åyant + past participle | åyant + past participle | åyant + past participle |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | conté | conté | contêye | contêye |
| past participle | past participle | plural | contés | contés | contêyes | contêyes |
| | singular | plural |
| | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| indicative | indicative | dji (dj') | ti (t') | i (il) / ele | dji (dj') / nos$^2$ | vos | i (il) |
| (simple tenses) | present | conte | contes | conte | contans | contez | contèt or contnut$^3$ |
| (simple tenses) | imperfect | contéve | contéves | contéve | conténs | contîz | contént |
| (simple tenses) | preterite | conta | contas | conta | contîs | contîz | contît |
| (simple tenses) | future | contrè | contrès | contrè | contrans | controz | contront |
| (simple tenses) | conditional | contreu | contreus | contreut | contréns | contrîz | contrént |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of aveur + past participle |
| (compound tenses) | pluperfect | imperfect indicative of aveur + past participle | imperfect indicative of aveur + past participle | imperfect indicative of aveur + past participle |
| (compound tenses) | past anterior | preterite indicative of aveur + past participle | preterite indicative of aveur + past participle | preterite indicative of aveur + past participle |
| (compound tenses) | future perfect | future of aveur + past participle | future of aveur + past participle | future of aveur + past participle |
| (compound tenses) | conditional perfect | conditional of aveur + past participle | conditional of aveur + past participle | conditional of aveur + past participle |
| subjunctive | subjunctive | ki dj' | ki t' | k' i (il) / k' ele | ki dj' / ki nos$^2$ | ki vos | k' i (il) |
| (simple tenses) | present | conte | contes | conte | contanxhe | contoxhe | contèxhe or contnuxhe$^3$ |
| (simple tenses) | imperfect | contaxhe | contaxhes | contaxhe | conténxhe | contîxhe | conténxhe |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of aveur + past participle |
| (compound tenses) | pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of aveur + past participle | imperfect subjunctive of aveur + past participle | imperfect subjunctive of aveur + past participle |
| imperative | imperative | – | ti | – | dji / nos | vos | – |
| simple | simple | — | conte! | — | contans! | contez! | — |
| compound | compound | — | simple imperative of aveur + past participle | — | simple imperative of aveur + past participle | simple imperative of aveur + past participle | — |
| $^1$ The Walloon gerund is usable only with the preposition tot (Eastern, Southern) or e (Central, Western). |||
| $^2$ The second person plural dji is used in Central and Southern dialects |||
| $^3$ The form -èt/-exhe is used in Eastern and Southern dialects, the form -nut/-nuxhe is used in Central and Western dialects. |||