prospecter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔs.pɛk.te/

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Verb

prospecter

1. (mineralogy) prospect (to search as for gold)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prospecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	prospecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	prospectant /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		prospecté /pʁɔs.pɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prospecte /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	prospectes /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	prospecte /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	prospectons /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɔ̃/	prospectez /pʁɔs.pɛk.te/	prospectent /pʁɔs.pɛkt/
	imperfect	prospectais /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɛ/	prospectais /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɛ/	prospectait /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɛ/	prospections /pʁɔs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	prospectiez /pʁɔs.pɛk.tje/	prospectaient /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	prospectai /pʁɔs.pɛk.te/	prospectas /pʁɔs.pɛk.ta/	prospecta /pʁɔs.pɛk.ta/	prospectâmes /pʁɔs.pɛk.tam/	prospectâtes /pʁɔs.pɛk.tat/	prospectèrent /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	prospecterai /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	prospecteras /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	prospectera /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	prospecterons /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	prospecterez /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	prospecteront /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	prospecterais /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	prospecterais /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	prospecterait /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	prospecterions /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	prospecteriez /pʁɔs.pɛk.tə.ʁje/	prospecteraient /pʁɔs.pɛk.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	prospecte /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	prospectes /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	prospecte /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	prospections /pʁɔs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	prospectiez /pʁɔs.pɛk.tje/	prospectent /pʁɔs.pɛkt/
	imperfect2	prospectasse /pʁɔs.pɛk.tas/	prospectasses /pʁɔs.pɛk.tas/	prospectât /pʁɔs.pɛk.ta/	prospectassions /pʁɔs.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	prospectassiez /pʁɔs.pɛk.ta.sje/	prospectassent /pʁɔs.pɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prospecte /pʁɔs.pɛkt/	—	prospectons /pʁɔs.pɛk.tɔ̃/	prospectez /pʁɔs.pɛk.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).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

prōspecter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of prōspectō