affecter
English
Etymology
affect + -er
Noun
affecter (plural affecters)
- A person who affects to know something or to be something.
Related terms
- affectation
- affective
- affection
- affectionate
Translations
person who affects to know or be something
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Anagrams
- reaffect
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin affectāre, present active infinitive of affectō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.fɛk.te/
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Verb
affecter
- (transitive) to feign, affect (an emotion, etc.)
- (transitive) to allocate (something), assign (someone) (à (“to”))
- (transitive) to affect, influence
Conjugation
Conjugation of affecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | affecter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affectant /a.fɛk.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affecté /a.fɛk.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | affecte /a.fɛkt/ | affectes /a.fɛkt/ | affecte /a.fɛkt/ | affectons /a.fɛk.tɔ̃/ | affectez /a.fɛk.te/ | affectent /a.fɛkt/ |
| imperfect | affectais /a.fɛk.tɛ/ | affectais /a.fɛk.tɛ/ | affectait /a.fɛk.tɛ/ | affections /a.fɛk.tjɔ̃/ | affectiez /a.fɛk.tje/ | affectaient /a.fɛk.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affectai /a.fɛk.te/ | affectas /a.fɛk.ta/ | affecta /a.fɛk.ta/ | affectâmes /a.fɛk.tam/ | affectâtes /a.fɛk.tat/ | affectèrent /a.fɛk.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | affecterai /a.fɛk.tə.ʁe/ | affecteras /a.fɛk.tə.ʁa/ | affectera /a.fɛk.tə.ʁa/ | affecterons /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | affecterez /a.fɛk.tə.ʁe/ | affecteront /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affecterais /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | affecterais /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | affecterait /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | affecterions /a.fɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | affecteriez /a.fɛk.tə.ʁje/ | affecteraient /a.fɛk.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 | affecte /a.fɛkt/ | affectes /a.fɛkt/ | affecte /a.fɛkt/ | affections /a.fɛk.tjɔ̃/ | affectiez /a.fɛk.tje/ | affectent /a.fɛkt/ |
| imperfect2 | affectasse /a.fɛk.tas/ | affectasses /a.fɛk.tas/ | affectât /a.fɛk.ta/ | affectassions /a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/ | affectassiez /a.fɛk.ta.sje/ | affectassent /a.fɛk.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affecte /a.fɛkt/ | — | affectons /a.fɛk.tɔ̃/ | affectez /a.fɛk.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
- “affecter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
affecter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of affectō