diffracter

French

Etymology

From Latin diffractus (“shattered”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.fʁak.te/

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Verb

diffracter

1. (transitive) to diffract

Conjugation

Conjugation of diffracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diffracter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	diffractant /di.fʁak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		diffracté /di.fʁak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	diffracte /di.fʁakt/	diffractes /di.fʁakt/	diffracte /di.fʁakt/	diffractons /di.fʁak.tɔ̃/	diffractez /di.fʁak.te/	diffractent /di.fʁakt/
	imperfect	diffractais /di.fʁak.tɛ/	diffractais /di.fʁak.tɛ/	diffractait /di.fʁak.tɛ/	diffractions /di.fʁak.tjɔ̃/	diffractiez /di.fʁak.tje/	diffractaient /di.fʁak.tɛ/
	past historic2	diffractai /di.fʁak.te/	diffractas /di.fʁak.ta/	diffracta /di.fʁak.ta/	diffractâmes /di.fʁak.tam/	diffractâtes /di.fʁak.tat/	diffractèrent /di.fʁak.tɛʁ/
	future	diffracterai /di.fʁak.tə.ʁe/	diffracteras /di.fʁak.tə.ʁa/	diffractera /di.fʁak.tə.ʁa/	diffracterons /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	diffracterez /di.fʁak.tə.ʁe/	diffracteront /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	diffracterais /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	diffracterais /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	diffracterait /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	diffracterions /di.fʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	diffracteriez /di.fʁak.tə.ʁje/	diffracteraient /di.fʁak.tə.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	diffracte /di.fʁakt/	diffractes /di.fʁakt/	diffracte /di.fʁakt/	diffractions /di.fʁak.tjɔ̃/	diffractiez /di.fʁak.tje/	diffractent /di.fʁakt/
	imperfect2	diffractasse /di.fʁak.tas/	diffractasses /di.fʁak.tas/	diffractât /di.fʁak.ta/	diffractassions /di.fʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/	diffractassiez /di.fʁak.ta.sje/	diffractassent /di.fʁak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	diffracte /di.fʁakt/	—	diffractons /di.fʁak.tɔ̃/	diffractez /di.fʁak.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

• diffraction
• diffractif

Further reading

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