concocter

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From concoct +‎ -er.

Noun

concocter (plural concocters)

  1. One who, or that which, concocts.
    • Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel
      She took those pills from the pill concocter,
      And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.
    • 2004, David B. Goldstein, Recipes for authorship:
      The idea that Milton's imitatio operates through a process of gathering and culling rather than one of sublimating and assimilating cuts against the grain of much recent criticism, which views Milton as the great concocter/transumer.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Back-formation from concoction.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.kɔk.te/
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Verb

concocter

  1. (transitive) to concoct

Conjugation

Conjugation of concocter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple concocter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple concoctant
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle concocté
/kɔ̃.kɔk.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present concocte
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		concoctes
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		concocte
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		concoctons
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɔ̃/ 		concoctez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.te/ 		concoctent
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/
imperfect concoctais
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/ 		concoctais
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/ 		concoctait
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/ 		concoctions
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tjɔ̃/ 		concoctiez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tje/ 		concoctaient
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛ/
past historic2 concoctai
/kɔ̃.kɔk.te/ 		concoctas
/kɔ̃.kɔk.ta/ 		concocta
/kɔ̃.kɔk.ta/ 		concoctâmes
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tam/ 		concoctâtes
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tat/ 		concoctèrent
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɛʁ/
future concocterai
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁe/ 		concocteras
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁa/ 		concoctera
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁa/ 		concocterons
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ 		concocterez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁe/ 		concocteront
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional concocterais
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɛ/ 		concocterais
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɛ/ 		concocterait
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁɛ/ 		concocterions
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		concocteriez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tə.ʁje/ 		concocteraient
/kɔ̃.kɔk.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 concocte
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		concoctes
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		concocte
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		concoctions
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tjɔ̃/ 		concoctiez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tje/ 		concoctent
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/
imperfect2 concoctasse
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tas/ 		concoctasses
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tas/ 		concoctât
/kɔ̃.kɔk.ta/ 		concoctassions
/kɔ̃.kɔk.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		concoctassiez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.ta.sje/ 		concoctassent
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — concocte
/kɔ̃.kɔkt/ 		— concoctons
/kɔ̃.kɔk.tɔ̃/ 		concoctez
/kɔ̃.kɔk.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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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