acheter
French
Etymology
From Old French acheter, from Vulgar Latin *accattāre or *accaptāre, present active infinitive of *accattō or *accaptō, from Latin ad + captō. Cognate with Norman acater (“to buy”), Sicilian accattari (“to buy”), Neapolitan accattà (“to buy”), Corsican accattà (“to buy”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʃ.te/
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il achète rather than *il achete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of acheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | achetant /aʃ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | acheté /aʃ.te/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | acheter | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | achetant /aʃ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | achète /a.ʃɛt/ |
achètes /a.ʃɛt/ |
achète /a.ʃɛt/ |
achetons /aʃ.tɔ̃/ |
achetez /aʃ.te/ |
achètent /a.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect | achetais /aʃ.tɛ/ |
achetais /aʃ.tɛ/ |
achetait /aʃ.tɛ/ |
achetions /a.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
achetiez /a.ʃə.tje/ |
achetaient /aʃ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | achetai /aʃ.te/ |
achetas /aʃ.ta/ |
acheta /aʃ.ta/ |
achetâmes /aʃ.tam/ |
achetâtes /aʃ.tat/ |
achetèrent /aʃ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | achèterai /a.ʃɛ.tʁe/ |
achèteras /a.ʃɛ.tʁa/ |
achètera /a.ʃɛ.tʁa/ |
achèterons /a.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
achèterez /a.ʃɛ.tʁe/ |
achèteront /a.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | achèterais /a.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
achèterais /a.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
achèterait /a.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
achèterions /a.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
achèteriez /a.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
achèteraient /a.ʃɛ.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 | achète /a.ʃɛt/ |
achètes /a.ʃɛt/ |
achète /a.ʃɛt/ |
achetions /a.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
achetiez /a.ʃə.tje/ |
achètent /a.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | achetasse /aʃ.tas/ |
achetasses /aʃ.tas/ |
achetât /aʃ.ta/ |
achetassions /aʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
achetassiez /aʃ.ta.sje/ |
achetassent /aʃ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | achète /a.ʃɛt/ |
— | achetons /aʃ.tɔ̃/ |
achetez /aʃ.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “acheter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *accattāre or *accaptāre, present active infinitive of *accattō or *accaptō, from Latin ad + captō.
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. This verb has a stressed present stem achat distinct from the unstressed stem achet. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of acheter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | acheter | avoir acheté | |||||
| gerund | en achetant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | achetant | ||||||
| past participle | acheté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | achat | achates | achate | achetons | achetez | achatent |
| imperfect | achetoie, acheteie, achetoe, acheteve | achetoies, acheteies, achetoes, acheteves | achetoit, acheteit, achetot, acheteve | achetiiens, achetiens | achetiiez, achetiez | achetoient, acheteient, achetoent, achetevent | |
| preterite | achetai | achetas | acheta | achetames | achetastes | acheterent | |
| future | acheterai | acheteras | achetera | acheterons | acheteroiz, achetereiz, acheterez | acheteront | |
| conditional | acheteroie, achetereie | acheteroies, achetereies | acheteroit, achetereit | acheteriiens, acheteriens | acheteriiez, acheteriez | acheteroient, achetereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | achat | achaz | achat | achetons | achetez | achatent |
| imperfect | achetasse | achetasses | achetast | achetissons, achetissiens | achetissoiz, achetissez, achetissiez | achetassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | achate | — | achetons | achetez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: acheter
- Walloon: atchter
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