respecter
English
Etymology
respect + -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Noun
respecter (plural respecters)
- One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects.
- 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 762755901:
- For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other..
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- A person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y".
Derived terms
- respecter of persons
References
- “respecter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin respectō (infinitive respectāre).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/
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Verb
respecter
- to respect
- to meet (deadline)
- to comply with (rules, laws)
Conjugation
Conjugation of respecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | respecter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | respectant /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | respecté /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | respectes /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | respectons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/ | respectez /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ | respectent /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
| imperfect | respectais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ | respectais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ | respectait /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ | respections /ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/ | respectiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/ | respectaient /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | respectai /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ | respectas /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/ | respecta /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/ | respectâmes /ʁɛs.pɛk.tam/ | respectâtes /ʁɛs.pɛk.tat/ | respectèrent /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | respecterai /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/ | respecteras /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/ | respectera /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/ | respecterons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | respecterez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/ | respecteront /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | respecterais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | respecterais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | respecterait /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | respecterions /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | respecteriez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁje/ | respecteraient /ʁɛs.pɛk.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 | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | respectes /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | respections /ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/ | respectiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/ | respectent /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
| imperfect2 | respectasse /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/ | respectasses /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/ | respectât /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/ | respectassions /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/ | respectassiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sje/ | respectassent /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ | — | respectons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/ | respectez /ʁɛs.pɛk.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
- “respecter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
respecter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of respectō