carter
English
Etymology
From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).
Noun
carter (plural carters)
- (dated) A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
- They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
- A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
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Translations
French
Conjugation
Conjugation of carter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | cartant /kaʁ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | carté /kaʁ.te/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | carter | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | cartant /kaʁ.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 | carte /kaʁt/ |
cartes /kaʁt/ |
carte /kaʁt/ |
cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/ |
cartez /kaʁ.te/ |
cartent /kaʁt/ |
| imperfect | cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/ |
cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/ |
cartait /kaʁ.tɛ/ |
cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
cartiez /kaʁ.tje/ |
cartaient /kaʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cartai /kaʁ.te/ |
cartas /kaʁ.ta/ |
carta /kaʁ.ta/ |
cartâmes /kaʁ.tam/ |
cartâtes /kaʁ.tat/ |
cartèrent /kaʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | carterai /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
carteras /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
cartera /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
carterons /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
carterez /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
carteront /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
carterait /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
carterions /kaʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
carteriez /kaʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
carteraient /kaʁ.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 | carte /kaʁt/ |
cartes /kaʁt/ |
carte /kaʁt/ |
cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
cartiez /kaʁ.tje/ |
cartent /kaʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | cartasse /kaʁ.tas/ |
cartasses /kaʁ.tas/ |
cartât /kaʁ.ta/ |
cartassions /kaʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cartassiez /kaʁ.ta.sje/ |
cartassent /kaʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | carte /kaʁt/ |
— | cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/ |
cartez /kaʁ.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). | |||||||
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