charpenter
French edit
Etymology edit
Either a derivative of Old French charpent (compare modern charpente) or from a Vulgar Latin *carpentāre, from Latin carpentum.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
charpenter
- to tailor, to tailor make
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of charpenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | charpenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | charpentant /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | charpenté /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
charpentes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
charpentons /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
charpentez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/ |
charpentent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | charpentais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
charpentais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
charpentait /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
charpentions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
charpentiez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje/ |
charpentaient /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | charpentai /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/ |
charpentas /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta/ |
charpenta /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta/ |
charpentâmes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tam/ |
charpentâtes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tat/ |
charpentèrent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | charpenterai /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁe/ |
charpenteras /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁa/ |
charpentera /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁa/ |
charpenterons /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
charpenterez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁe/ |
charpenteront /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | charpenterais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
charpenterais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
charpenterait /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
charpenterions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
charpenteriez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
charpenteraient /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.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 | charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
charpentes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
charpentions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
charpentiez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje/ |
charpentent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | charpentasse /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tas/ |
charpentasses /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tas/ |
charpentât /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta/ |
charpentassions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
charpentassiez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
charpentassent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/ |
— | charpentons /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
charpentez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “charpenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.