infecter
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
infecter (plural infecters)
- One who, or that which, infects.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infecter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
infecter
- to infect
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of infecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | infecter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | infectant /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | infecté /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
infectes /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
infectons /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɔ̃/ |
infectez /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/ |
infectent /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
| imperfect | infectais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/ |
infectais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/ |
infectait /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/ |
infections /ɛ̃.fɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
infectiez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tje/ |
infectaient /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | infectai /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/ |
infectas /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta/ |
infecta /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta/ |
infectâmes /ɛ̃.fɛk.tam/ |
infectâtes /ɛ̃.fɛk.tat/ |
infectèrent /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | infecterai /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
infecteras /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
infectera /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
infecterons /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
infecterez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
infecteront /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | infecterais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
infecterais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
infecterait /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
infecterions /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
infecteriez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁje/ |
infecteraient /ɛ̃.fɛk.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 | infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
infectes /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
infections /ɛ̃.fɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
infectiez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tje/ |
infectent /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
| imperfect2 | infectasse /ɛ̃.fɛk.tas/ |
infectasses /ɛ̃.fɛk.tas/ |
infectât /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta/ |
infectassions /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
infectassiez /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta.sje/ |
infectassent /ɛ̃.fɛk.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/ |
— | infectons /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɔ̃/ |
infectez /ɛ̃.fɛk.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “infecter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).