argenter
French
Etymology
argent + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/
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Verb
argenter
- to silverplate
- Antonym: désargenter
Conjugation
Conjugation of argenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | argenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | argentant /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | argenté /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | argentes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | argentons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | argentez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/ | argentent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | argentais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | argentais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | argentait /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | argentions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | argentiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tje/ | argentaient /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | argentai /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/ | argentas /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/ | argenta /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/ | argentâmes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tam/ | argentâtes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tat/ | argentèrent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | argenterai /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/ | argenteras /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/ | argentera /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/ | argenterons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | argenterez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/ | argenteront /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | argenterais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | argenterais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | argenterait /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | argenterions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | argenteriez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | argenteraient /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.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 | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | argentes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | argentions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | argentiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tje/ | argentent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | argentasse /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | argentasses /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | argentât /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/ | argentassions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | argentassiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta.sje/ | argentassent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/ | — | argentons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | argentez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.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
- argentage
- désargenter
Further reading
- “argenter” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “argenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- étranger, garèrent, ragèrent