célébrer

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin celebrāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /se.le.bʁe/ Homophones: célébrai, célébré, célébrée, célébrées, célébrés, célébrez === Verb === célébrer to celebrate Synonym: fêter to observe (a holiday, event, etc.) to perform, to officiate at to worship ==== Usage notes ==== célébrer can be used with regard to events with a solemn connotation, unlike English celebrate. ==== Conjugation ==== This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written célébrer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written célèbrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here. ==== Derived terms ==== célébration célèbre célébrité === Further reading === “célébrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012