supplanter
English
Etymology
supplant + -er.
Noun
supplanter (plural supplanters)
- Someone or something that supplants.
- 1906, James H. McConkey, “Jacob's Struggle”, in China's Millions, page 13:
- Selfishness is indeed the supplanter of God in the soul.
- 1957, Petroleum Times (volume 61, page 43)
- What with the increased cost and the continued element of unreliability that these facts mean, I don't see in hydro-electricity more than an eker-out of coal and oil, not a supplanter.
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Anagrams
- superplant
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin supplantō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.plɑ̃.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
supplanter
- (transitive) to supplant
Conjugation
Conjugation of supplanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | supplanter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | supplantant /sy.plɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | supplanté /sy.plɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/ | supplantes /sy.plɑ̃t/ | supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/ | supplantons /sy.plɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | supplantez /sy.plɑ̃.te/ | supplantent /sy.plɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | supplantais /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/ | supplantais /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/ | supplantait /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/ | supplantions /sy.plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | supplantiez /sy.plɑ̃.tje/ | supplantaient /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | supplantai /sy.plɑ̃.te/ | supplantas /sy.plɑ̃.ta/ | supplanta /sy.plɑ̃.ta/ | supplantâmes /sy.plɑ̃.tam/ | supplantâtes /sy.plɑ̃.tat/ | supplantèrent /sy.plɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | supplanterai /sy.plɑ̃.tʁe/ | supplanteras /sy.plɑ̃.tʁa/ | supplantera /sy.plɑ̃.tʁa/ | supplanterons /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | supplanterez /sy.plɑ̃.tʁe/ | supplanteront /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | supplanterais /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | supplanterais /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | supplanterait /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | supplanterions /sy.plɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | supplanteriez /sy.plɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | supplanteraient /sy.plɑ̃.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 | supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/ | supplantes /sy.plɑ̃t/ | supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/ | supplantions /sy.plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | supplantiez /sy.plɑ̃.tje/ | supplantent /sy.plɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | supplantasse /sy.plɑ̃.tas/ | supplantasses /sy.plɑ̃.tas/ | supplantât /sy.plɑ̃.ta/ | supplantassions /sy.plɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | supplantassiez /sy.plɑ̃.ta.sje/ | supplantassent /sy.plɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/ | — | supplantons /sy.plɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | supplantez /sy.plɑ̃.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
- “supplanter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
supplanter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of supplantō
Old French
Etymology
From Latin supplantō.
Verb
supplanter
- (transitive) to supplant
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of supplanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | supplanter | avoir supplanté | |||||
| gerund | en supplantant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | supplantant | ||||||
| past participle | supplanté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | supplant | supplantes | supplante | supplantons | supplantez | supplantent |
| imperfect | supplantoie, supplanteie, supplantoe, supplanteve | supplantoies, supplanteies, supplantoes, supplanteves | supplantoit, supplanteit, supplantot, supplanteve | supplantiiens, supplantiens | supplantiiez, supplantiez | supplantoient, supplanteient, supplantoent, supplantevent | |
| preterite | supplantai | supplantas | supplanta | supplantames | supplantastes | supplanterent | |
| future | supplanterai | supplanteras | supplantera | supplanterons | supplanteroiz, supplantereiz, supplanterez | supplanteront | |
| conditional | supplanteroie, supplantereie | supplanteroies, supplantereies | supplanteroit, supplantereit | supplanteriiens, supplanteriens | supplanteriiez, supplanteriez | supplanteroient, supplantereient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | supplant | supplanz | supplant | supplantons | supplantez | supplantent |
| imperfect | supplantasse | supplantasses | supplantast | supplantissons, supplantissiens | supplantissoiz, supplantissez, supplantissiez | supplantassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | supplante | — | supplantons | supplantez | — | ||
Descendants
- → English: supplant
- French: supplanter