calfater
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kal.fa.te/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Verb
calfater
- to caulk (to seal joints with caulk)
Conjugation
Conjugation of calfater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | calfater | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | calfatant /kal.fa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | calfaté /kal.fa.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | calfate /kal.fat/ | calfates /kal.fat/ | calfate /kal.fat/ | calfatons /kal.fa.tɔ̃/ | calfatez /kal.fa.te/ | calfatent /kal.fat/ |
imperfect | calfatais /kal.fa.tɛ/ | calfatais /kal.fa.tɛ/ | calfatait /kal.fa.tɛ/ | calfations /kal.fa.tjɔ̃/ | calfatiez /kal.fa.tje/ | calfataient /kal.fa.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | calfatai /kal.fa.te/ | calfatas /kal.fa.ta/ | calfata /kal.fa.ta/ | calfatâmes /kal.fa.tam/ | calfatâtes /kal.fa.tat/ | calfatèrent /kal.fa.tɛʁ/ | |
future | calfaterai /kal.fa.tʁe/ | calfateras /kal.fa.tʁa/ | calfatera /kal.fa.tʁa/ | calfaterons /kal.fa.tʁɔ̃/ | calfaterez /kal.fa.tʁe/ | calfateront /kal.fa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | calfaterais /kal.fa.tʁɛ/ | calfaterais /kal.fa.tʁɛ/ | calfaterait /kal.fa.tʁɛ/ | calfaterions /kal.fa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | calfateriez /kal.fa.tə.ʁje/ | calfateraient /kal.fa.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 | calfate /kal.fat/ | calfates /kal.fat/ | calfate /kal.fat/ | calfations /kal.fa.tjɔ̃/ | calfatiez /kal.fa.tje/ | calfatent /kal.fat/ |
imperfect2 | calfatasse /kal.fa.tas/ | calfatasses /kal.fa.tas/ | calfatât /kal.fa.ta/ | calfatassions /kal.fa.ta.sjɔ̃/ | calfatassiez /kal.fa.ta.sje/ | calfatassent /kal.fa.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | calfate /kal.fat/ | — | calfatons /kal.fa.tɔ̃/ | calfatez /kal.fa.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). |
Descendants
- → Early Scots: calfat
- Scots: colf, culf, calf
Further reading
- “calfater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- fractale