adopter
English
Etymology
adopt + -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈdɒp.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈdɑp.tɚ/
Noun
adopter (plural adopters)
- one who adopts
- 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
- Google says the smartglasses are still in "beta" – prototype – form, despite being openly on sale, and that it wants early adopters to buy and use them and report back problems and suggestions so it can shape the future of the product, which is expected to eventually cost about the same as the average smartphone.
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Derived terms
- early adopter
Translations
one who adopts
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Anagrams
- readopt
French
Etymology
From Latin adoptāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dɔp.te/
Audio (file) - Homophones: adoptai, adopté, adoptée, adoptées, adoptés, adoptez
Verb
adopter
- to adopt (claim legal ownership of a child)
- to adopt (claim ownership of a child)
- to adopt (claim a mannerism or style of someone else's)
- (politics) to vote
Conjugation
Conjugation of adopter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | adopter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | adoptant /a.dɔp.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | adopté /a.dɔp.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | adopte /a.dɔpt/ | adoptes /a.dɔpt/ | adopte /a.dɔpt/ | adoptons /a.dɔp.tɔ̃/ | adoptez /a.dɔp.te/ | adoptent /a.dɔpt/ |
| imperfect | adoptais /a.dɔp.tɛ/ | adoptais /a.dɔp.tɛ/ | adoptait /a.dɔp.tɛ/ | adoptions /a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/ | adoptiez /a.dɔp.tje/ | adoptaient /a.dɔp.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | adoptai /a.dɔp.te/ | adoptas /a.dɔp.ta/ | adopta /a.dɔp.ta/ | adoptâmes /a.dɔp.tam/ | adoptâtes /a.dɔp.tat/ | adoptèrent /a.dɔp.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | adopterai /a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/ | adopteras /a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/ | adoptera /a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/ | adopterons /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | adopterez /a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/ | adopteront /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | adopterais /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | adopterais /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | adopterait /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | adopterions /a.dɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | adopteriez /a.dɔp.tə.ʁje/ | adopteraient /a.dɔp.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 | adopte /a.dɔpt/ | adoptes /a.dɔpt/ | adopte /a.dɔpt/ | adoptions /a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/ | adoptiez /a.dɔp.tje/ | adoptent /a.dɔpt/ |
| imperfect2 | adoptasse /a.dɔp.tas/ | adoptasses /a.dɔp.tas/ | adoptât /a.dɔp.ta/ | adoptassions /a.dɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/ | adoptassiez /a.dɔp.ta.sje/ | adoptassent /a.dɔp.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | adopte /a.dɔpt/ | — | adoptons /a.dɔp.tɔ̃/ | adoptez /a.dɔp.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- adoption
Further reading
- “adopter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- déporta
Latin
Verb
adopter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adoptō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
adopter
- imperative of adoptere