adopter

English

Etymology

adopt +‎ -er

Pronunciation

Noun

adopter (plural adopters)

  1. one who adopts
    • 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
      Google says the smartglasses are still in "beta" – prototype – form, despite being openly on sale, and that it wants early adopters to buy and use them and report back problems and suggestions so it can shape the future of the product, which is expected to eventually cost about the same as the average smartphone.

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French

Etymology

From Latin adoptāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

adopter

  1. to adopt (claim legal ownership of a child)
  2. to adopt (claim ownership of a child)
  3. to adopt (claim a mannerism or style of someone else's)
  4. (politics) to vote

Conjugation
Conjugation of adopter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple adopter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple adoptant
/a.dɔp.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle adopté
/a.dɔp.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present adopte
/a.dɔpt/		 adoptes
/a.dɔpt/		 adopte
/a.dɔpt/		 adoptons
/a.dɔp.tɔ̃/		 adoptez
/a.dɔp.te/		 adoptent
/a.dɔpt/
imperfect adoptais
/a.dɔp.tɛ/		 adoptais
/a.dɔp.tɛ/		 adoptait
/a.dɔp.tɛ/		 adoptions
/a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/		 adoptiez
/a.dɔp.tje/		 adoptaient
/a.dɔp.tɛ/
past historic2 adoptai
/a.dɔp.te/		 adoptas
/a.dɔp.ta/		 adopta
/a.dɔp.ta/		 adoptâmes
/a.dɔp.tam/		 adoptâtes
/a.dɔp.tat/		 adoptèrent
/a.dɔp.tɛʁ/
future adopterai
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/		 adopteras
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/		 adoptera
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/		 adopterons
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/		 adopterez
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/		 adopteront
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional adopterais
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/		 adopterais
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/		 adopterait
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/		 adopterions
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 adopteriez
/a.dɔp.tə.ʁje/		 adopteraient
/a.dɔp.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 adopte
/a.dɔpt/		 adoptes
/a.dɔpt/		 adopte
/a.dɔpt/		 adoptions
/a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/		 adoptiez
/a.dɔp.tje/		 adoptent
/a.dɔpt/
imperfect2 adoptasse
/a.dɔp.tas/		 adoptasses
/a.dɔp.tas/		 adoptât
/a.dɔp.ta/		 adoptassions
/a.dɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/		 adoptassiez
/a.dɔp.ta.sje/		 adoptassent
/a.dɔp.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — adopte
/a.dɔpt/		 — adoptons
/a.dɔp.tɔ̃/		 adoptez
/a.dɔp.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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Latin

Verb

adopter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adoptō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

adopter

  1. imperative of adoptere
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