humecter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin humectāre.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /y.mɛk.te/
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Verb
humecter
- to moisten (make slightly wet)
Conjugation
Conjugation of humecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | humecter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | humectant /y.mɛk.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | humecté /y.mɛk.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | humecte /y.mɛkt/ |
humectes /y.mɛkt/ |
humecte /y.mɛkt/ |
humectons /y.mɛk.tɔ̃/ |
humectez /y.mɛk.te/ |
humectent /y.mɛkt/ |
| imperfect | humectais /y.mɛk.tɛ/ |
humectais /y.mɛk.tɛ/ |
humectait /y.mɛk.tɛ/ |
humections /y.mɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
humectiez /y.mɛk.tje/ |
humectaient /y.mɛk.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | humectai /y.mɛk.te/ |
humectas /y.mɛk.ta/ |
humecta /y.mɛk.ta/ |
humectâmes /y.mɛk.tam/ |
humectâtes /y.mɛk.tat/ |
humectèrent /y.mɛk.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | humecterai /y.mɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
humecteras /y.mɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
humectera /y.mɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
humecterons /y.mɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
humecterez /y.mɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
humecteront /y.mɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | humecterais /y.mɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
humecterais /y.mɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
humecterait /y.mɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
humecterions /y.mɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
humecteriez /y.mɛk.tə.ʁje/ |
humecteraient /y.mɛk.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 | humecte /y.mɛkt/ |
humectes /y.mɛkt/ |
humecte /y.mɛkt/ |
humections /y.mɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
humectiez /y.mɛk.tje/ |
humectent /y.mɛkt/ |
| imperfect2 | humectasse /y.mɛk.tas/ |
humectasses /y.mɛk.tas/ |
humectât /y.mɛk.ta/ |
humectassions /y.mɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
humectassiez /y.mɛk.ta.sje/ |
humectassent /y.mɛk.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | humecte /y.mɛkt/ |
— | humectons /y.mɛk.tɔ̃/ |
humectez /y.mɛk.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
- “humecter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
humecter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of humectō