inventer
English
Noun
inventer (plural inventers)
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(See the entry for inventer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of inventer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | inventant /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | inventé /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | inventer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | inventant /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.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 | invente /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
inventes /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
invente /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
inventons /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
inventez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te/ |
inventent /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | inventais /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛ/ |
inventais /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛ/ |
inventait /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛ/ |
inventions /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
inventiez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tje/ |
inventaient /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | inventai /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te/ |
inventas /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.ta/ |
inventa /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.ta/ |
inventâmes /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tam/ |
inventâtes /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tat/ |
inventèrent /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | inventerai /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
inventeras /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
inventera /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁa/ |
inventerons /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
inventerez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁe/ |
inventeront /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | inventerais /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
inventerais /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
inventerait /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
inventerions /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
inventeriez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
inventeraient /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.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 | invente /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
inventes /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
invente /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
inventions /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
inventiez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tje/ |
inventent /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | inventasse /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tas/ |
inventasses /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tas/ |
inventât /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.ta/ |
inventassions /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
inventassiez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
inventassent /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | invente /ɛ̃.vɑ̃t/ |
— | inventons /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
inventez /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “inventer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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