compatir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compatior, compati, and adapted as a fourth-conjugation French verb, as with the related pâtir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.pa.tiʁ/
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Verb

compatir

  1. to sympathise, empathise, feel for

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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