argenter
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
argenter
- to silverplate
- Antonym: désargenter
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of argenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | argenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | argentant /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | argenté /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
argentes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
argentons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
argentez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/ |
argentent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | argentais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ |
argentais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ |
argentait /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ |
argentions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
argentiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tje/ |
argentaient /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | argentai /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/ |
argentas /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/ |
argenta /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/ |
argentâmes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tam/ |
argentâtes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tat/ |
argentèrent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | argenterai /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/ |
argenteras /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/ |
argentera /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/ |
argenterons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
argenterez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/ |
argenteront /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | argenterais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
argenterais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
argenterait /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
argenterions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
argenteriez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
argenteraient /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.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 | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
argentes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
argentions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
argentiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tje/ |
argentent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | argentasse /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/ |
argentasses /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/ |
argentât /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/ |
argentassions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
argentassiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
argentassent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
— | argentons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
argentez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “argenter” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “argenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.