teter
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il tète and the third-person singular future indicative il tètera.
| infinitive | simple | teter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tetant /tə.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | teté /tə.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tète /tɛt/ |
tètes /tɛt/ |
tète /tɛt/ |
tetons /tə.tɔ̃/ |
tetez /tə.te/ |
tètent /tɛt/ |
| imperfect | tetais /tə.tɛ/ |
tetais /tə.tɛ/ |
tetait /tə.tɛ/ |
tetions /tə.tjɔ̃/ |
tetiez /tə.tje/ |
tetaient /tə.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tetai /tə.te/ |
tetas /tə.ta/ |
teta /tə.ta/ |
tetâmes /tə.tam/ |
tetâtes /tə.tat/ |
tetèrent /tə.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tèterai /tɛ.tʁe/ or /te.tʁe/ |
tèteras /tɛ.tʁa/ or /te.tʁa/ |
tètera /tɛ.tʁa/ or /te.tʁa/ |
tèterons /tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /te.tʁɔ̃/ |
tèterez /tɛ.tʁe/ or /te.tʁe/ |
tèteront /tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /te.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tèterais /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/ |
tèterais /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/ |
tèterait /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/ |
tèterions /tɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /te.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tèteriez /tɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /te.tə.ʁje/ |
tèteraient /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.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 | tète /tɛt/ |
tètes /tɛt/ |
tète /tɛt/ |
tetions /tə.tjɔ̃/ |
tetiez /tə.tje/ |
tètent /tɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | tetasse /tə.tas/ |
tetasses /tə.tas/ |
tetât /tə.ta/ |
tetassions /tə.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tetassiez /tə.ta.sje/ |
tetassent /tə.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tète /tɛt/ |
— | tetons /tə.tɔ̃/ |
tetez /tə.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
tēter (feminine tētra, neuter tētrum, comparative tētrior, superlative tēterrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | tēter | tētra | tētrum | tētrī | tētrae | tētra | |
| Genitive | tētrī | tētrae | tētrī | tētrōrum | tētrārum | tētrōrum | |
| Dative | tētrō | tētrō | tētrīs | ||||
| Accusative | tētrum | tētram | tētrum | tētrōs | tētrās | tētra | |
| Ablative | tētrō | tētrā | tētrō | tētrīs | |||
| Vocative | tēter | tētra | tētrum | tētrī | tētrae | tētra | |
teter
From Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
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