étêter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.tɛ.te/, /e.te.te/
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Verb
étêter
- (horticulture, forestry) to pollard, to trim the top of a tree
- (by extension) to cut off the top of any object
Conjugation
Conjugation of étêter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | étêter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | étêtant /e.tɛ.tɑ̃/ or /e.te.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | étêté /e.tɛ.te/ or /e.te.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | étête /e.tɛt/ |
étêtes /e.tɛt/ |
étête /e.tɛt/ |
étêtons /e.tɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.te.tɔ̃/ |
étêtez /e.tɛ.te/ or /e.te.te/ |
étêtent /e.tɛt/ |
| imperfect | étêtais /e.tɛ.tɛ/ or /e.te.tɛ/ |
étêtais /e.tɛ.tɛ/ or /e.te.tɛ/ |
étêtait /e.tɛ.tɛ/ or /e.te.tɛ/ |
étêtions /e.tɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.te.tjɔ̃/ |
étêtiez /e.tɛ.tje/ or /e.te.tje/ |
étêtaient /e.tɛ.tɛ/ or /e.te.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | étêtai /e.tɛ.te/ or /e.te.te/ |
étêtas /e.tɛ.ta/ or /e.te.ta/ |
étêta /e.tɛ.ta/ or /e.te.ta/ |
étêtâmes /e.tɛ.tam/ or /e.te.tam/ |
étêtâtes /e.tɛ.tat/ or /e.te.tat/ |
étêtèrent /e.tɛ.tɛʁ/ or /e.te.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | étêterai /e.tɛ.tʁe/ or /e.te.tʁe/ |
étêteras /e.tɛ.tʁa/ or /e.te.tʁa/ |
étêtera /e.tɛ.tʁa/ or /e.te.tʁa/ |
étêterons /e.tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.te.tʁɔ̃/ |
étêterez /e.tɛ.tʁe/ or /e.te.tʁe/ |
étêteront /e.tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.te.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | étêterais /e.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.te.tʁɛ/ |
étêterais /e.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.te.tʁɛ/ |
étêterait /e.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.te.tʁɛ/ |
étêterions /e.tɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.te.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
étêteriez /e.tɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /e.te.tə.ʁje/ |
étêteraient /e.tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.te.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 | étête /e.tɛt/ |
étêtes /e.tɛt/ |
étête /e.tɛt/ |
étêtions /e.tɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.te.tjɔ̃/ |
étêtiez /e.tɛ.tje/ or /e.te.tje/ |
étêtent /e.tɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | étêtasse /e.tɛ.tas/ or /e.te.tas/ |
étêtasses /e.tɛ.tas/ or /e.te.tas/ |
étêtât /e.tɛ.ta/ or /e.te.ta/ |
étêtassions /e.tɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /e.te.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
étêtassiez /e.tɛ.ta.sje/ or /e.te.ta.sje/ |
étêtassent /e.tɛ.tas/ or /e.te.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | étête /e.tɛt/ |
— | étêtons /e.tɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.te.tɔ̃/ |
étêtez /e.tɛ.te/ or /e.te.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
Related terms
Further reading
- “étêter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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