concocter
English
Alternative forms
- concoctor
Etymology
concoct + -er
Noun
concocter (plural concocters)
- 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.
- She took those pills from the pill concocter,
- 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.
- Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel
Anagrams
- reconcoct
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
concocter
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “concocter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.