fermenter
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Noun edit
fermenter (plural fermenters)
- Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.
- A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 205:
- Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin fermentāre.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/
Audio (file) - Homophones: fermentai, fermenté, fermentée, fermentées, fermentés, fermentez
Verb edit
fermenter
- (intransitive) to ferment
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fermenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fermenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fermentant /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fermenté /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
fermentez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ |
fermentent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | fermentais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
fermentais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
fermentait /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
fermentions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
fermentiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tje/ |
fermentaient /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fermentai /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ |
fermentas /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/ |
fermenta /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/ |
fermentâmes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tam/ |
fermentâtes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tat/ |
fermentèrent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | fermenterai /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁe/ |
fermenteras /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁa/ |
fermentera /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁa/ |
fermenterons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
fermenterez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁe/ |
fermenteront /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fermenterais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
fermenterais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
fermenterait /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
fermenterions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fermenteriez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
fermenteraient /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.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 | fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
fermentiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tje/ |
fermentent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | fermentasse /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/ |
fermentasses /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/ |
fermentât /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/ |
fermentassions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fermentassiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
fermentassent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
— | fermentons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
fermentez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.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
- “fermenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ferˈmen.ter/, [fɛrˈmɛn̪t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ferˈmen.ter/, [ferˈmɛn̪t̪er]
Verb edit
fermenter