catapulter
English
Etymology
catapult + -er
Noun
catapulter (plural catapulters)
- One who uses a catapult.
- 2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors, Simon and Schuster, published 2010, →ISBN, page 118:
- Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.
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French
Pronunciation
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Verb
catapulter
- to catapult
Conjugation
Conjugation of catapulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | catapulter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | catapultant /ka.ta.pyl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | catapulté /ka.ta.pyl.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ | catapultes /ka.ta.pylt/ | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ | catapultons /ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/ | catapultez /ka.ta.pyl.te/ | catapultent /ka.ta.pylt/ |
| imperfect | catapultais /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ | catapultais /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ | catapultait /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ | catapultions /ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/ | catapultiez /ka.ta.pyl.tje/ | catapultaient /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | catapultai /ka.ta.pyl.te/ | catapultas /ka.ta.pyl.ta/ | catapulta /ka.ta.pyl.ta/ | catapultâmes /ka.ta.pyl.tam/ | catapultâtes /ka.ta.pyl.tat/ | catapultèrent /ka.ta.pyl.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | catapulterai /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/ | catapulteras /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/ | catapultera /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/ | catapulterons /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | catapulterez /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/ | catapulteront /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | catapulterais /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/ | catapulterais /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/ | catapulterait /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/ | catapulterions /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | catapulteriez /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁje/ | catapulteraient /ka.ta.pyl.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 | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ | catapultes /ka.ta.pylt/ | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ | catapultions /ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/ | catapultiez /ka.ta.pyl.tje/ | catapultent /ka.ta.pylt/ |
| imperfect2 | catapultasse /ka.ta.pyl.tas/ | catapultasses /ka.ta.pyl.tas/ | catapultât /ka.ta.pyl.ta/ | catapultassions /ka.ta.pyl.ta.sjɔ̃/ | catapultassiez /ka.ta.pyl.ta.sje/ | catapultassent /ka.ta.pyl.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ | — | catapultons /ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/ | catapultez /ka.ta.pyl.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
- “catapulter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.