calfater
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kal.fa.te/
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Verb
calfater
- to caulk (to seal joints with caulk)
Conjugation
Conjugation of calfater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | calfater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | calfatant /kal.fa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | calfaté /kal.fa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | calfate /kal.fat/ |
calfates /kal.fat/ |
calfate /kal.fat/ |
calfatons /kal.fa.tɔ̃/ |
calfatez /kal.fa.te/ |
calfatent /kal.fat/ |
| imperfect | calfatais /kal.fa.tɛ/ |
calfatais /kal.fa.tɛ/ |
calfatait /kal.fa.tɛ/ |
calfations /kal.fa.tjɔ̃/ |
calfatiez /kal.fa.tje/ |
calfataient /kal.fa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | calfatai /kal.fa.te/ |
calfatas /kal.fa.ta/ |
calfata /kal.fa.ta/ |
calfatâmes /kal.fa.tam/ |
calfatâtes /kal.fa.tat/ |
calfatèrent /kal.fa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | calfaterai /kal.fa.tʁe/ |
calfateras /kal.fa.tʁa/ |
calfatera /kal.fa.tʁa/ |
calfaterons /kal.fa.tʁɔ̃/ |
calfaterez /kal.fa.tʁe/ |
calfateront /kal.fa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | calfaterais /kal.fa.tʁɛ/ |
calfaterais /kal.fa.tʁɛ/ |
calfaterait /kal.fa.tʁɛ/ |
calfaterions /kal.fa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
calfateriez /kal.fa.tə.ʁje/ |
calfateraient /kal.fa.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 | calfate /kal.fat/ |
calfates /kal.fat/ |
calfate /kal.fat/ |
calfations /kal.fa.tjɔ̃/ |
calfatiez /kal.fa.tje/ |
calfatent /kal.fat/ |
| imperfect2 | calfatasse /kal.fa.tas/ |
calfatasses /kal.fa.tas/ |
calfatât /kal.fa.ta/ |
calfatassions /kal.fa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
calfatassiez /kal.fa.ta.sje/ |
calfatassent /kal.fa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | calfate /kal.fat/ |
— | calfatons /kal.fa.tɔ̃/ |
calfatez /kal.fa.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). | |||||||
Descendants
Further reading
- “calfater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.