phagocyter
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
phagocyter
- (transitive, biology) to phagocytize
- (transitive, figurative) to swallow up
- 2022 February 24, Lucas Minisini, “A Avion, la candidature de Fabien Roussel donne des ailes aux militants”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Cette commune du Pas-de-Calais est l’un des derniers bastions communistes d’une région phagocytée par l’extrême droite.
- This commune in Pas-de-Calais is one of the last bastions of communism in a region swallowed up by the far right.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of phagocyter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | phagocyter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | phagocytant /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | phagocyté /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
phagocytes /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
phagocytons /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɔ̃/ |
phagocytez /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/ |
phagocytent /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
| imperfect | phagocytais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/ |
phagocytais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/ |
phagocytait /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/ |
phagocytions /fa.ɡɔ.si.tjɔ̃/ |
phagocytiez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tje/ |
phagocytaient /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | phagocytai /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/ |
phagocytas /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta/ |
phagocyta /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta/ |
phagocytâmes /fa.ɡɔ.si.tam/ |
phagocytâtes /fa.ɡɔ.si.tat/ |
phagocytèrent /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | phagocyterai /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁe/ |
phagocyteras /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁa/ |
phagocytera /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁa/ |
phagocyterons /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɔ̃/ |
phagocyterez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁe/ |
phagocyteront /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | phagocyterais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɛ/ |
phagocyterais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɛ/ |
phagocyterait /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɛ/ |
phagocyterions /fa.ɡɔ.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
phagocyteriez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tə.ʁje/ |
phagocyteraient /fa.ɡɔ.si.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 | phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
phagocytes /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
phagocytions /fa.ɡɔ.si.tjɔ̃/ |
phagocytiez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tje/ |
phagocytent /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
| imperfect2 | phagocytasse /fa.ɡɔ.si.tas/ |
phagocytasses /fa.ɡɔ.si.tas/ |
phagocytât /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta/ |
phagocytassions /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
phagocytassiez /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta.sje/ |
phagocytassent /fa.ɡɔ.si.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/ |
— | phagocytons /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɔ̃/ |
phagocytez /fa.ɡɔ.si.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “phagocyter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.