prospecter
French
Pronunciation
Verb
prospecter
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of prōspectō