arrenter

French

Etymology

From rente.

Pronunciation

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Verb

arrenter

1. to pay a pension, annuity etc.

Conjugation

Conjugation of arrenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	arrenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	arrentant /a.ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arrenté /a.ʁɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	arrente /a.ʁɑ̃t/	arrentes /a.ʁɑ̃t/	arrente /a.ʁɑ̃t/	arrentons /a.ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	arrentez /a.ʁɑ̃.te/	arrentent /a.ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect	arrentais /a.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	arrentais /a.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	arrentait /a.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	arrentions /a.ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	arrentiez /a.ʁɑ̃.tje/	arrentaient /a.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	arrentai /a.ʁɑ̃.te/	arrentas /a.ʁɑ̃.ta/	arrenta /a.ʁɑ̃.ta/	arrentâmes /a.ʁɑ̃.tam/	arrentâtes /a.ʁɑ̃.tat/	arrentèrent /a.ʁɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	arrenterai /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	arrenteras /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	arrentera /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	arrenterons /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	arrenterez /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	arrenteront /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	arrenterais /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	arrenterais /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	arrenterait /a.ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	arrenterions /a.ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	arrenteriez /a.ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	arrenteraient /a.ʁɑ̃.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	arrente /a.ʁɑ̃t/	arrentes /a.ʁɑ̃t/	arrente /a.ʁɑ̃t/	arrentions /a.ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	arrentiez /a.ʁɑ̃.tje/	arrentent /a.ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	arrentasse /a.ʁɑ̃.tas/	arrentasses /a.ʁɑ̃.tas/	arrentât /a.ʁɑ̃.ta/	arrentassions /a.ʁɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	arrentassiez /a.ʁɑ̃.ta.sje/	arrentassent /a.ʁɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	arrente /a.ʁɑ̃t/	—	arrentons /a.ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	arrentez /a.ʁɑ̃.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).

Further reading

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