ceinturer

French

Etymology

From ceinture +‎ -er. See also cintrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.ty.ʁe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

ceinturer

1. (transitive) to belt; belt up; girt; put a belt (or something similar) around
2. (transitive) to wrap; wrap up
3. (transitive) to surround

Conjugation

Conjugation of ceinturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ceinturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ceinturant /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ceinturé /sɛ̃.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ceinture /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	ceintures /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	ceinture /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	ceinturons /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɔ̃/	ceinturez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁe/	ceinturent /sɛ̃.tyʁ/
	imperfect	ceinturais /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɛ/	ceinturais /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɛ/	ceinturait /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɛ/	ceinturions /sɛ̃.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	ceinturiez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁje/	ceinturaient /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	ceinturai /sɛ̃.ty.ʁe/	ceinturas /sɛ̃.ty.ʁa/	ceintura /sɛ̃.ty.ʁa/	ceinturâmes /sɛ̃.ty.ʁam/	ceinturâtes /sɛ̃.ty.ʁat/	ceinturèrent /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	ceinturerai /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	ceintureras /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	ceinturera /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	ceinturerons /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ceinturerez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	ceintureront /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ceinturerais /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ceinturerais /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ceinturerait /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ceinturerions /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ceintureriez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	ceintureraient /sɛ̃.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(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	ceinture /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	ceintures /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	ceinture /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	ceinturions /sɛ̃.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	ceinturiez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁje/	ceinturent /sɛ̃.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	ceinturasse /sɛ̃.ty.ʁas/	ceinturasses /sɛ̃.ty.ʁas/	ceinturât /sɛ̃.ty.ʁa/	ceinturassions /sɛ̃.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	ceinturassiez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁa.sje/	ceinturassent /sɛ̃.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ceinture /sɛ̃.tyʁ/	—	ceinturons /sɛ̃.ty.ʁɔ̃/	ceinturez /sɛ̃.ty.ʁe/	—
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

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