arpenter

French

Etymology

From arpent +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.pɑ̃.te/

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• Homophones: arpentai, arpenté, arpentée, arpentées, arpentés, arpentez

Verb

arpenter

1. to survey land
2. to pace, to measure
3. to pace, to walk to and fro

Conjugation

Conjugation of arpenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	arpenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	arpentant /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arpenté /aʁ.pɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	arpente /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	arpentes /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	arpente /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	arpentons /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/	arpentez /aʁ.pɑ̃.te/	arpentent /aʁ.pɑ̃t/
	imperfect	arpentais /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/	arpentais /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/	arpentait /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/	arpentions /aʁ.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	arpentiez /aʁ.pɑ̃.tje/	arpentaient /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	arpentai /aʁ.pɑ̃.te/	arpentas /aʁ.pɑ̃.ta/	arpenta /aʁ.pɑ̃.ta/	arpentâmes /aʁ.pɑ̃.tam/	arpentâtes /aʁ.pɑ̃.tat/	arpentèrent /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	arpenterai /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁe/	arpenteras /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁa/	arpentera /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁa/	arpenterons /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	arpenterez /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁe/	arpenteront /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	arpenterais /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/	arpenterais /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/	arpenterait /aʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/	arpenterions /aʁ.pɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	arpenteriez /aʁ.pɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	arpenteraient /aʁ.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	arpente /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	arpentes /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	arpente /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	arpentions /aʁ.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	arpentiez /aʁ.pɑ̃.tje/	arpentent /aʁ.pɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	arpentasse /aʁ.pɑ̃.tas/	arpentasses /aʁ.pɑ̃.tas/	arpentât /aʁ.pɑ̃.ta/	arpentassions /aʁ.pɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	arpentassiez /aʁ.pɑ̃.ta.sje/	arpentassent /aʁ.pɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	arpente /aʁ.pɑ̃t/	—	arpentons /aʁ.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/	arpentez /aʁ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• arpenteur
• arpentage

Further reading

• “arpenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• parèrent, râpèrent, réparent, repérant