opter
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
opter (plural opters)
- One who opts, or makes a choice.
- 2012, Jeff Sellars, Light Shining in a Dark Place (page 50)
- Hannibal Lecter is one of many in the gallery of cinema villains and unrepentant opters for evil who remind us that the only place where they will be at home is Hell or the void.
- 2012, Jeff Sellars, Light Shining in a Dark Place (page 50)
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin optāre, present active infinitive of optō (“I choose”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
opter
- to opt
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of opter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | opter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | optant /ɔp.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | opté /ɔp.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | opte /ɔpt/ |
optes /ɔpt/ |
opte /ɔpt/ |
optons /ɔp.tɔ̃/ |
optez /ɔp.te/ |
optent /ɔpt/ |
| imperfect | optais /ɔp.tɛ/ |
optais /ɔp.tɛ/ |
optait /ɔp.tɛ/ |
options /ɔp.tjɔ̃/ |
optiez /ɔp.tje/ |
optaient /ɔp.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | optai /ɔp.te/ |
optas /ɔp.ta/ |
opta /ɔp.ta/ |
optâmes /ɔp.tam/ |
optâtes /ɔp.tat/ |
optèrent /ɔp.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | opterai /ɔp.tə.ʁe/ |
opteras /ɔp.tə.ʁa/ |
optera /ɔp.tə.ʁa/ |
opterons /ɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
opterez /ɔp.tə.ʁe/ |
opteront /ɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | opterais /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ |
opterais /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ |
opterait /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ |
opterions /ɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
opteriez /ɔp.tə.ʁje/ |
opteraient /ɔp.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 | opte /ɔpt/ |
optes /ɔpt/ |
opte /ɔpt/ |
options /ɔp.tjɔ̃/ |
optiez /ɔp.tje/ |
optent /ɔpt/ |
| imperfect2 | optasse /ɔp.tas/ |
optasses /ɔp.tas/ |
optât /ɔp.ta/ |
optassions /ɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
optassiez /ɔp.ta.sje/ |
optassent /ɔp.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | opte /ɔpt/ |
— | optons /ɔp.tɔ̃/ |
optez /ɔp.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, 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
- “opter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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LatinEdit
VerbEdit
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