orienter
English
Etymology
orient + -er
Noun
orienter (plural orienters)
- A person or thing that orients.
- 2009, Jerry D. Moore, Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader (page 377)
- […] an agreement about their Significance in the sense that there is acceptance of the appropriateness of these signals and signs as orienters of interaction in a specific social situation and a commonality of response to them.
- 2009, Jerry D. Moore, Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader (page 377)
Anagrams
- reorient
French
Etymology
orient + -er, from Old French oriant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/
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Verb
orienter
- to orientate
- to set to north
- to guide
Conjugation
Conjugation of orienter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | orienter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | orientant /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | orienté /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | orientes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | orientons /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | orientez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/ | orientent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | orientais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/ | orientais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/ | orientait /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/ | orientions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | orientiez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tje/ | orientaient /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | orientai /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/ | orientas /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta/ | orienta /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta/ | orientâmes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tam/ | orientâtes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tat/ | orientèrent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | orienterai /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁe/ | orienteras /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁa/ | orientera /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁa/ | orienterons /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | orienterez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁe/ | orienteront /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | orienterais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | orienterais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | orienterait /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | orienterions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | orienteriez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | orienteraient /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.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 | oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | orientes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | orientions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | orientiez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tje/ | orientent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | orientasse /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tas/ | orientasses /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tas/ | orientât /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta/ | orientassions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | orientassiez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sje/ | orientassent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/ | — | orientons /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | orientez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- programmation orientée objet
Related terms
- orientation
Descendants
- → Turkish: oryante (via past participle)
Further reading
- “orienter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
orienter
- imperative of orientere